I need some help estimating my bandwidth usage. Currently I'm with a host that gives me 8 Gigs per month, but i'm making a site that will be as big as something like flashkit.com. A web community site that allows you to surf around and participate in lots of stuff. Each page's graphics would probably be under 70 kb.

I need some help estimating how much bandwidth I'm going to be using per month. Do you think that a single user would be able to surf 15 megs worth from a site in one day?

How much is it average per day for all you guys' sites? I wanna know if this venture will be so horribly expensive because people will be using 15 megs per day or something

thanks.

It really depends on whats on the site. I notice that in general 10,000 Page views will consume 1Gig of bandwidth.

For a single user to use 15M from surfing only(no downloads), one would have to view a 150K page about 100 times. Average usage like that seems implausible to me.

The answer to the question how much bw a proposed site might use would be valuable, if it could be answered, but it can't.

If you could find a site similiar to the proposed one, determine the bw used there and assumed the same viewership, you MIGHT have some basis for a ballpark guess.

You might want to look at the usage on your existing site. I suppose your direct concern is exceeding the 8 gig limit for both sites. Although entirely different, at least that's clue.

Originally posted by Gordo
For a single user to use 15M from surfing only(no downloads), one would have to view a 150K page about 100 times. Average usage like that seems implausible to me.


Would using a frameset keep those extra hit's down, as all of the graphics and basic site navigation is downloaded once?

Yes. Using frame can actually save some bandwidth. You can also optimize the page by using a shorter variables and removing unecessary tags, which will decrease the file size. :)

Originally posted by massive
I need some help estimating my bandwidth usage. Currently I'm with a host that gives me 8 Gigs per month, but i'm making a site that will be as big as something like flashkit.com. A web community site that allows you to surf around and participate in lots of stuff. Each page's graphics would probably be under 70 kb.


Just some advice.

Try to keep the page size under 20kb. Is it hard? Yes. Impossible? No. Good web design can make a pleasing page view at under 20kb.

Why keep it under 20kb besides saying on bandwidth? Dial up viewers. Still 33.6 and 56k surfers out there, and the cut off on many to wait for a page to load is 20 seconds.

Many people are making the mistake of going to flash and all because they have broadband. It's nice eye candy, but eye candy becomes a real pain when a large segment of the web population still surf under a 33.6/56k modem.