Does anyone use anywhere near 45gigs of transfer a month?

[piper]

Does anyone here on the Gigadeal use anywhere near their allotted 45 gigs of bandwidth? If you do what kind of site do you run?

[Spathiphyllum]

Nope. But one can hope!

Are you canvassing for ideas to draw advertising bucks or just curious to know if 45GB is enough?

[Sara]

Not at all. Don't think I've ever hit 1gig yet, but my site is also just a personal site without real interest to a lot of other people.

[Vin DSL]

If you'll pardon the pun, I've been doing this Internet gig since 1996, and I normally use 1-3 GB, including regular site backups...

A buddy of mine, that started out about the same time, has an icon/wallpaper site. His bandwidth usage was unbelievable. We used to sign on to those 'unlimited' bandwidth hosts. I'd hang around for a year, but he would get kicked off almost immediately.

LoL! When we were at Tentex, they said he was using 85% of their bandwidth. He sent me a copy of the eMail when they booted him. Truth be known, I was glad he got kicked off. My site was running slow as snot.

Anyway, it all depends on the content on your site. All I do is webdev these days, and it doesn't require all that much...

[Spathiphyllum]

Originally posted by Vin DSL
Anyway, it all depends on the content on your site. All I do is webdev these days, and it doesn't require all that much...

Vin, do you structure your xHTML to allow caching of image files on the client PC or is all of your content dynamic and reloaded (as new) on each client request? I've kicked around dynamic DB-based solutions versus static for some time and keep coming back to static except for client pages that require real-time, customized processing.

The reason I ask is that I prefer to allow as much local caching as possible to minimize downloading volume and access time. If I knew that DB-based solutions would accommodate that, I might finally make the transition. So do you see tangible bandwidth advantage, apart from some management benefits, from your WebDev platform?

[Vin DSL]

I only have a minute...

The pages are generated dynamically each time they're called, but the images are cached on the local machine. The only caching I am doing on the server are the thumbnail images for the 'Open Directory Project'. I set these images to expire after 7 days.

[Connie]

Back to the original question. I agree with Vin that it will depend on
your web-site content. If you have a shopping site like ours I don't think
you will ever have a problem. Unless you become "Amazon.com" This is a slow
time of the year for us. April
through July we will have about 200 to 300 unique visitors per day.

From August through March traffic will start building. During those periods
we may get around 1000 unique visitors per day. We have never reached 2 GIGs
bandwidth. Regardless of the number of visitors. We average about 4 page views
per visitors.

Hope with Vins input this helps.

[piper]

Thank-you all for replying.

Originally posted by Spathiphyllum
Are you canvassing for ideas to draw advertising bucks or just curious to know if 45GB is enough?

I was just curious to know if 45gigs was enough. I'm using 5-6gigs a month. I have fairly active forums and was wondering about growth. When I say fairly I mean about 20 active members posting 100-200 messages a day. I guess I have lots of room for expansion.

[Julian Muñoz]

I'm using like 30-35g but I plan to place some ads on my site so the bandwidth may increase.

[Ron]

be sure to turn on gzip compression on your forums

[Connie]

I would think you have a lot of room for expansion. Watch you logs.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by piper
...about 20 active members posting 100-200 messages a day...

Kinda like this?

[Spathiphyllum]

Originally posted by Vin DSL
Kinda like this?

You mean you're already to post #10 for the day? Man, I'll never catch-up.

piper,
If you'll be hosting political discussions, make sure you have lots of headroom... unless of course, everyone agrees with you. Just kidding. Actually, textual volume will be inconsequential to the image volume as far as bandwidth demands are concerned. As I alluded to earlier, allow local caching in the <head></head> of your xHTML and you can cut down on a good bit of bandwidth (unless visiting client browsers override this).

[`elemnt]

I got up to 30gig on our previous host, large amounts of video and images where uploaded and downloaded hourly

[Smo]

last month my site used about 10GB bandwidth, for nearly 10000 guests, so 1mb/guest. I host a few flash animations and some images so I suppose that takes up alot of bandwidth.