Mav2u Posted April 25, 2003 Posted April 25, 2003 Okay, I just joined the party with the basic 5 gb $44 dollar special. My question is how does one estimate what amount of usage is enough to have. I see the counter in the cpanel but I haven't moved my other sites over here yet. Exactly how many visitors or downloads would a person have to have to reach 5 gb? If I put a 20mb sample movie I made on my server for clients to view how fast would this eat up my bandwidth. Or would it? Sorry for the questions but it is just one of those things I've always wondered about. Plus I wanna make sure I don't go over and make people mad. You all seem like nice people, and I'd like to keep it that way....heh.. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted April 25, 2003 Posted April 25, 2003 Hi, For a 20mb its easy to work out: 1 Gig = 1000mbs 5 gig = 5000mbs Therefore 5000/20 = 250 times it can be downloaded before you will eat up your bandwidth for the month. It really depends on what you have on your site. On mine I hava mixture of php, images and shockwave and flash, and i get about 2000 unique vistors a month. However, this does not equal the number of hits. A user can be around the site for ages, and also come back several times. What else will you be hosting on your site? Music? More video? Btw any site offering you "unlimted" bandwidth is lying. There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. They will either have a cap they dont tell you about (although they will swear blue they dont) or they will terminate ur account just like that or will go bust very shortly. You can only have domain name per account remember unless you have a reselller account. You can always try it for 30 days and get your money back. Also, a warning email should be sent to you before you reach your bandwidth limit, and you can always buy more or upgrade your plan. Any more questions you would like to ask? Jim Quote
Mav2u Posted April 25, 2003 Author Posted April 25, 2003 That's what I figured for the bandwidth for a file. I figure it would take a lot of visitors on a normal webpage of around lets say 50 Kb to have a butt load of visitors. But I wan't sure if it goes by each visit or by each reload of the page or what exactly. I'm not real worried about the site going over as I had 5 gb on my other server and never went over. But I do have forums, MT, and Nuke on this server and I'm starting to get a little concerned about my bandwidth. True, I would imagine I'll get an email if I should happen to hit the ceiling on my bandwidth. So that I might have the option of upgrading if needed. Or check to make sure some punk hasn't linked my content and is sucking up mine and everyone elses bandwidth on the servers. I appreciate the response, and I have been 110% satisfied with your service and the general attitude of everyone who is here in the forums. I can't wait for the 30 days to be up for my test run and switch my other accounts over on a reseller account. I'm sure I will be completely satisfied and so will my clients when I bring them over and will be able to offer them these totally awesome services. ( When I say clients I only have four right now...hehe...but it sounds like I'm really big time already though doesn't it...) Well enough ranting, I have things to play with in cpanel. Off I go! Mav Quote
dozure Posted April 25, 2003 Posted April 25, 2003 I have a lot of bandwidth hogging files and a lot of visitors, but I've never gotten past 3gb of bandwidth used. for normal sites, 5gb is more than enough. Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 25, 2003 Posted April 25, 2003 Sorry MAV, I visited your site and increased your bandwidth, for a about a half an hour. Very nice site, great pics! Will have to look some more later. And welcome to your new home and the family! Quote
Mav2u Posted April 26, 2003 Author Posted April 26, 2003 Yeah, I can't wait to get the redo of my site done. Now that I can use MySQL stuff I can upload all my pictures, and have a nice Weblog with MT, or Nuke. I also get nice forums to, a much sweeter deal than I had before. Only I'll miss is the support for Cold Fusion I had on the other server. But, I'll just keep another small account with them so I can test my cfm stuff over there for a while. Unless Total Choice is thinking about Cold Fusion Hosting here to. No big deal, I'll still have my home server to test on also. But so far I must say this TCH Rocks Quote
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