Bandwidth And Space Usage For Forums

[4MRM]

I have had a message board for almost 2 years through a service that started out as free, but started charging users. To make a long story short, I'd like to get away from them because the cost is too much. If I add a forum to my site, how will effect my bandwidth and space usage on my site? I know members will want to add personalized avatars.

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Well i run a succesfully phpBB.

 

It has the following average stats per day of 171 visitors, 2485.43 pages, 15718.21 hits and 32 megs of bandwidth.

 

I have the blue style setup. There is no mail feature on the forum, and private messages are limted to a maximum of 10.

 

With gzip feature turned on, the mysql database is about 15 megs in size (80 megs with no compression) . With 276 users and just under 10,000 articles.

 

I hope this gives you some impression of what it will use, in other words, not very much on my silver package.

 

Jim

[4MRM]

Thanks. I've been using a aimoo board and the cost is starting to kill me. I think I will make the switch.