bandiwdth question

[Frosty]

I swear this is one of my last questions i`ll ever ask here:

If i have a 5 MB website and a host allows 1000 MB (1 GB) bandwidth per month, i could only get 200 visitors to my site each month!

That can`t be correct? Because every single one of my visitors always view the entire 5 MB of my site. (my site`s only ten pages long). But with only a 1 GB bandiwdth that means i can only get 200 visitors to my site each month?

I gig is too small.

[Jaiem]

And your example assumes each person reads each page only once. If they go back and view a page more than once that's more bandwidth used.

OTOH, 5MB is approx 5,000KB (I know it's a little more but work with me). So for a ten page site that means each page is 500KB or half a meg! No web site has half meg web pages - imagine how long it would take to down load!

[Frosty]

wait, i know my website is 4 MB in size. And nevermind, i just counted: My website is almost 20 pages long.
Or wait, this is my real question:
How common is it for a website that is no more than 50 MB in size to use more than 3 gigs of bandiwdth per month? Would you say that 99 percent of all websites that size would not go over a 3 GB bandwidth?

[akashik]

with no guarantees, I would say yes. With that amount of visitors you'd be lucky (or unlucky) to do more than 3 gig.

5 meg does seem quite large too - you could probably optimise quite a bit. akashik.net is 8 meg in total, gets around 200 unique hits a day and rarely goes about 2 gig a month, including return visitors and people looking through our support area. We reuse a lot of graphics throughout the site too which brings the numbers down.

the 99% figure may be a little old now, but I don't see that it would be much different these days.

Greg Moore

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Jaiem
And your example assumes each person reads each page only once. If they go back and view a page more than once that's more bandwidth used.

Actually, if they go back within a relatively short period of time, they aren't necessarily retrieving the content again, their browser should have that cached locally (unless they have the caching turned off, but very few people fiddle with their cache settings in this day of the giant hard drives-was different a few years back when your browser cache could fill up your HD).

Frosty: 1GB/month is for low-traffic sites, if you are getting more traffic than that (and overage charges) you probably should upgrade to a higher level plan with your hosting provider.

[Jaiem]

Originally posted by Phoenix


Actually, if they go back within a relatively short period of time, they aren't necessarily retrieving the content again, their browser should have that cached locally (unless they have the caching turned off, but very few people fiddle with their cache settings in this day of the giant hard drives-was different a few years back when your browser cache could fill up your HD).

Point.

[Frosty]

someone once told me that it`s a good idea to empty your temporary internet files about every other week or so. Is this true?
Sometimes i clear my temporary internet files "cache" to see how fast my website really loads.

But if someone only has a 5 MB site, then you think 1 GB per month is plenty? How come addr.com claims that you can get "one million hits per month" with a 1 gig bandwidth?
I`m still angry that they have 50,000 freak`in customers. NOT FAIR. Everywhere i go i see a blasted addr advertisement. Someone should email addr and tell them to stop trying to take over the planet.

[akashik]

Cleaning your temp files is a good habit just to reduce junk. Same with your cookie folder. Some cookies you use almost on a daily basis (like forum ones *lol*). Word of warning though. I cleaned out my windows IE temp file once and managed to do something I'm sure not entirely sure of. The end result was a reformatting of my drive to get the computer working again..

If your webpages are 1k in size of course you can get a million hits a month! I don't think you could sue them for it, but it's so incredibly unrealistic it might as well be a lie.

A 5 meg site should come in at under 1 gig a month. It depends on how popular the site is, and how well you optimise your site. I'm yet to see a site that small go anywhere near that.

Greg Moore

[JTY]

How can your site be that big? Is it graphic intensive?

[Frosty]

were you asking about my site?

My site is 4 MB in size. And it doesn`t have alot of images at all. But in my control panel it says that my site is 4 MB in size though. My site is the same size as.....i don`t know........addr.com i guess.
I hate you addr! I don`t like addr cause they have so many customers and that`s not fair.

Here`s a question. What kind of software programming do most webhosts use so that their order form knows what to charge a certain customer and when to charge what amount? Like if one of your customers is a reseller how does the order form know to charge additional accounts at the discounted price or whatever?

[Frosty]

do any of you guys know if casahosting.com is good or one of those lemons?

I`m just curious. I already host my site at a very nice host, but i`m just curious about one of casahosting`s plans. So what`s the verdict?

[James]

Frosty,

This looks to be going off topic, if you want to know about, casahosting.com could you start a new thread.

It just makes it easier for users to respond to your question.

Thanks