zilla Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 I currently manage a message board on an ad-supported site, and we're looking into setting up a new board (probably the licensed version of IPB) and hosting it ourselves. The question ... is there any way we could estimate how much monthly bandwidth the board would eat up? Currently, we have about 800 members who've logged in within the last year, (250 in the last 2 weeks), new people join every day, and we average about 50-100 posts/day. Our site owner has about 9 GB of bandwidth that goes unused every month, and I was just wondering if that would be enough to cover the load. I'm not sure she'd willing to pay more to cover additional bandwidth, so I don't want to make the move if it would cause her to have to do so. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 Since you have seen an increase of more than 30% membership you can use that figure to estimate how much more bandwidth you will need. If you expect even more growth factor that in as well. Quote
zilla Posted March 6, 2006 Author Posted March 6, 2006 Ooops... I didn't mention this: The problem is, I don't have a baseline #. The board isn't hosted by us -- it's a free board hosted through proboards, so we don't have access to any data. I just have no clue how much bandwidth transfer a message board would use. Quote
TCH-Andy Posted March 6, 2006 Posted March 6, 2006 Have you got access to raw log files at all ? You can get the information from there. Alternatively, you could check the size of a typical page, and multiply up for the estimated number of hits you get. Quote
zilla Posted March 7, 2006 Author Posted March 7, 2006 no log files... but still, thanks , that sounds like that'd do the trick. I can right click on the page to see how many bytes there are and we have a hit counter that I can reset. Excellent!!!! Quote
TCH-JimE Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 Hello, I used to have a proboard years ago. Now I have my own domain and account here at TCH. I have some 4000 registered users and some 150,000 articles, with an average of 90 new posts a day. The bandwidth on my phpBB board is about 9 gigs a month Getting a proper forum was one of the best things I ever did! Hope this is of some help JimE Quote
zilla Posted March 7, 2006 Author Posted March 7, 2006 (edited) Thanks! I did notice that the php and invision boards use less bandwidth. Something else for me to keep in mind. Edited March 7, 2006 by zilla Quote
TCH-JimE Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Hello, Also remember to turn on Gzip, this saves huge amounts of bandwidth yet has no effect for the viewer! JimE Quote
zilla Posted March 10, 2006 Author Posted March 10, 2006 gzip..... is this on invision or phpbb ? or both? Quote
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