What is a good or common ratio of space to bandwidth?

I was looking at maybe 5GB per 100MB?

I don't want to be too restricting but on the other hand I don't want to advertise "Unlimited" when we all know there is a limit somewhere.

Thanks for your input!

Regards,
Christopher

hmmm thats a tough question, it really does depend on each individual website. a person may store lots of things on his site available for download but not use much bandwidth.
and then someone could just have say a 20meg website but get thousands of visitors each day using lots of bandwidth.

i think 5gb per 100mb may be a little excessive, say you offered 1000mb disk space. that means you would offer 50gig of bandwidth.

but if you are going to offer say a maximum of 250mb for your most expensive account then your ratio could be very suitable.
thats 12.5gig per 250mb

i think that this all depends on how much bandwidth/space your server or reseller account has

Yeah. It firstly really depends on how much space and bandwidth you are actually given with your server/reseller account.

If you have a dedicated server, you may want to offer say 100MB space with each 1GB of bandwidth... this could be very good for reseller accounts if you were to only offer them.
Therefore for 10GB bandwidth, they'd have 1000MB space - but don't go advertising 1GB space since a lot of people don't like it, as you are only giving them 1000mb space while 1GB space is actually 1024MB (true it isn't much... but when you start claiming 3GB space or 4GB space, it all adds up).

Maybe 50MB space per 1GB bandwidth for shared hosting?
This would mean 10GB bandwidth would give the person 500MB space, while most other companies only give 200MB space for 10GB bandwidth and they charge about $10 a month, therefore you'd have the upper hand with your clients.


See and try. Take how much bandwidth is in your server, then divide by how much bandwidth you want to give per person. If you want to give 5GB per person, and your server has 500GB bandwidth - that is 100 clients per server without over-selling.
Now, go up in stages, say 500mb*100 clients = 50,000mb space - if you have a 60GB or 80GB hard-drive, then that's perfect. Only have a 40GB hard-drive? Then give less space. Try and work out your bandwidth first, then from how many clients - give a nice amount of bandwidth, but try and not be too stingy. ;)