is 4gb bandwidth decent for a regular site?

**crj** · February 16th, 2002, 19:33

is 4gb of bandwidth per month decent for a regular site?

is that more than enough if i were to get 500+ visitors a day?

**cheatpark** · February 16th, 2002, 19:35

It depends. Are there any downloads on the site and are there any big scripts like forums? If its just mostly plain html pages it should be enough.

**Mika** · February 16th, 2002, 20:02

What I know is that only a small number of sites goes over the 2GB. So 4GB are enough for a good site with many visitors.

**cheatpark** · February 16th, 2002, 20:24

There should be a site with a script that calculates how much bandwidth you could possibly use.

**Archbob** · February 16th, 2002, 23:54

If you don't have downloads, it should be enough.

4GB on 10kb pages =400,000 views a month.

**conkermaniac** · February 17th, 2002, 06:23

And forums might hog up quite a lot of that 4 GB of bandwidth, if you have enough posts/page views. Especially if you're using one of the newer versions of board scripts (like phpBB 2, Ikonboard, YaBB, etc.).

**jodaman1** · March 10th, 2002, 00:24

simple answer...
No.

**is0lized** · March 10th, 2002, 00:25

there is a site that calculates it.. want it ill give it to you?

**Archbob** · March 10th, 2002, 12:02

For plain HTML text sites with no download 4GB can get around maybe 1700 uniques per day.

**Chicken** · March 10th, 2002, 12:24

You shouldn't buy a plan based on what you'll need, as if that were the case you'd have to be psychic and sign up for a clustered, load-balanced multi-server solution. Buy a package based on what you need now, plus some. Be sure that your host offers easy upgrade plans and gives you the option to grown.

**Archbob** · March 11th, 2002, 19:08

Yep, like me with 10GB bandwidth but only useing around 350mb per month!

**Toefur** · March 12th, 2002, 01:31

I have one site, gets 200-350 uniques a day, and also has a pretty active message board (a few hundred posts a day), and it only uses about 3-4 gig per month.

**Jan** · March 12th, 2002, 02:01

I have a 4Gb bandwidth limit with my host.

Here are some stats:

(Figures in parentheses refer to the last 7 days).
Successful requests: 186,258 (161,532)
Average successful requests per day: 22,886 (23,075)
Successful requests for pages: 40,220 (34,839)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 4,942 (4,976)
Failed requests: 3,034 (2,599)
Distinct files requested: 1,766 (1,761)
Corrupt logfile lines: 5
Data transferred: 1,603 Mbytes (1,389 Mbytes)
Average data transferred per day: 201,792 kbytes (203,195 kbytes)