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sentinel
New Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10 December 2002 : 12:53:55
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if 1 have about 30 people posting messages on a forum with no attachments, What the monthly bandwidth going to be around?
Looking for a houst that gives enought bandwidth but dont know what sort of bandwidth will be enougth. Seen a few asp hosts offering 100mb is that enougth ?
Cheers
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 December 2002 : 14:35:33
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some more info required.
How many visitors do you get each day (not unique visits, but total visits) this is what dictates your bandwidth consumption more than actuall posting. plus, do you have a lot of images, how big are they etc, but here are a couple of examples to give you some idea.
This forum gets > 10000 visitors a day, and a lot of posts, it uses around 45GB of bandwidth a month.
my test site gets around 250 visits a day and uses about 2GB
a site with NO forum getting around 2000 visitors a day (but hosts files for download) is using about 22GB a month
so, you see there is no hard and fast rules here, it entirely depends on the content of your site and how many visitors you get, and what they do while they are there |
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David K
Junior Member
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Posted - 10 December 2002 : 17:02:13
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this entire site uses only 45GB per month????
That's almost nothing(reletively to what I thought it does) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20593 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 18:19:39
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mainly because it is a bog standard snitz, no bells and whistles, plus the files are not hosted here, otherwise bandwidth would be considerably more.
I also host http://www.flashplayer.com, it has about the same number of visitors, but as most are downloading flash anims, its bandwidth usage is around 180Gb |
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David K
Junior Member
494 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 04:14:16
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| talking about files hosted, i tried to contact you regading my MOD (to add it to finished MODs, but the email was invalid) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20593 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 04:20:56
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| really, which email did you use ? |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 11 December 2002 : 04:40:58
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You'll more than likely need more than 100Mb Sentinel, if you've got around 30 visitors coming to the site a couple of times a day I'd guesstimate more like 1-2Gb would meet your needs (I've personally found 1Gb is about right for an small to medium size forum), my own which runs around 15,000 hits per day uses a little over 1G and its got pleanty of graphics etc there as well - www.eq-halo.com .
If you host doesn't provide you with your bandwidth usage summary, then you can get the info from your logs (assuming your host lets you access them) |
Kiwihosting.Net - The Forum Hosting Specialists
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David K
Junior Member
494 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 10:38:32
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| the one in the MOD Add-On page, Snitz@PGorissen.com, I think it should be updated |
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sentinel
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 December 2002 : 11:51:17
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erm, Thanks for the feedback on this, It was a real eye-opener. My host gives me 3gb a month traffic so i think i will have to host it all on there. At the moment i am housting the forum on a 3rd part FREE .ASP site as my host dont do .ASP unless i upgrade my service with them. Looks like i will have to do that then :)
Thanks very much with your help on this matter.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20593 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 12:01:49
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Originally posted by David K
the one in the MOD Add-On page, Snitz@PGorissen.com, I think it should be updated
That isn't my email address anyway, it is gor's try huw@forum.snitz.com |
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David K
Junior Member
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Posted - 11 December 2002 : 16:31:38
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| I ment you as a group, not you personally, I want to get my MOD (DOBDisplay 1.0) to "Completed MODs" |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20593 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 17:11:40
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| Ah ok, email it to me, I will sort it out and change the contact info |
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