As I am getting further along to setting up my web site I was curious how much bandwidth most of you use per month with your sites?
I am considering the common/standard flash sites but also thinking of a regular http site in addition to a blog for better SEM/SEO opportunities. I have multiple domain names in place as people often spell my name wrong and I am going to make sure I can bounce them over to my main site and not miss them.
I obviously won’t be approaching the rock star levels that some around here have so I was curious what type of plans I should be looking at to get started? Do I go 300-500GB per month or pay more for unlimited ones?
I was going to post in the PRO corner but this forum has more relevant activity after doing a search and I also figured I can't be the only one around here with this question so I hope it's not out of line.
yeah, there's pretty much no way I can imagine you using more that 100gb a month. If Jeremy is only hitting 66gb a month then you would have to get what 9x his monthly traffic?
Our busiest month of the summer was 23.448 GB (14.620 GB for proofing gallery, 8.828 GB for the site itself). I suspect a flash-based site will use more bandwidth because less of it is cached, but it wouldn't be substantially more. Our numbers tend to be the average around here I've found — some higher and some lower but a lot in that range.
That's what I thought but I started getting paranoid when I see all the extra options for 500GB or unlimited for just $7.00 more per month, etc…. I couldn't imagine huge numbers either but I sometimes what seems logical and straightforward isn't. Thankfully this is.
Given that I don't think I qualify as a roadie, let alone a rock star I now know I will be able to go with the least expensive option and sleep at night knowing that I won’t have to worry about my first month’s bill
I avg around 60GB a month, some higher though. I dont think I'd ever hit 300gb+. I have unlimited bandwidth though, any decent host should provide unlimited.
If you're just starting off, you won't be getting anywhere near what most of these guys here are pulling. Unless you are hosting a lot of very data-heavy content, you're not likely to reach 10GB per month for a while.
Lots of providers offer unlimited use but the thing to look for is if you can have a independent IP address. Guess to be specific it would be a independent class C address. In other words many providers will set up the service like an appartment complex. One main address with as many as 500 suite numbers. If you share with one or two that may be OK but you don't want to share with 200-500. If they get in trouble for spam or other things usually the penalize the whole IP and don't take the time to look for the one problem account. I know of a Big provider who is Banned from specific email providers, such as earthlink,hotmail etc, due to spam and other things. All ( several thousand) on that network are affected. Most just never find out.
