Bandwidth And Traffic Question

[sigmadog]

I have a client who is interested in creating a community-building site, which I will build for her using Drupal 6. Having more experience in visual design than server technology, I have some questions regarding bandwidth and traffic:

 

Bandwidth: Right now, she has a fairly popular static site and blog that transfers on average about 7GB/month. But with the community-site she envisions a lot more bandwidth since the users will be contributing stories and photos. As a start, I'm leaning towards recommending the Silver Plan (80GB/Month), with the understanding that she may need to upgrade when/if the site grows in popularity. I think 80GB would be plenty as a start. Does this sound reasonable?

 

Traffic: Right now, her other site experiences session traffic at roughly 20,000 sessions/month (about 700/day). Once the community site is established, she thinks that number will grow. Estimating an increase in traffic to 40,000 sessions/month (approx. 1400/day), how will this affect the speed of the servers? Will a standard TCH shared-server plan be fast enough?

 

I would like to have her host on TCH, since I am a satisfied TCH customer myself; I just want to make sure I get her the right set-up from the start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Bruce]

You can open a ticket with the help desk and they will be able to answer this better but you can start with the Silver plan and upgrade as needed. If the site grows quickly you can always get a dedicated server down the road.

[sigmadog]

You can open a ticket with the help desk and they will be able to answer this better but you can start with the Silver plan and upgrade as needed. If the site grows quickly you can always get a dedicated server down the road.

 

Will do.

 

Thanks, Bruce.