PLEASE SOMEONE!! i just started in the internet website building and heres my problem my site <<snipped>> is getting too much hits and the hosting company said that i have to buy more bandwith.. i dont know what that is and i allready put 150bucks into my site and cant afford to pay more money.. not until someone either sponcers my side or buy ad space.. all the details to my site is below can someone please guide me.. please note.. that i only had this site for 1 month now.. and really dont know much about running a site, expect how to advertise , by the way this website has been extreamly help full! thanks!
a. whats bandwith
b. how can i make money with my site
c. is my stats below any good?? so many people coming to the site (i had it for 1 month now and about to hit 3000 members)

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http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledpp2.jpg

Web Disk Space:
1682 of 7000 MB available disk space Used.

Web Data Transfer:
505.07 of 150 GB available data transfer Used

a) Bandwidth is a measure of how much information has gone to/from your site. You have done 500GB so you would need to look at a VPS or a dedicated server to give you room to grow. They will come with enough bandwidth to cover your hosting and also give you room to grow.

b) Google Adsence? Sell Advertising?

c) IF thats a month old site you are doing quite well indeed

Uhh...

Web Data Transfer:
505.07 of 150 GB available data transfer Used

And yes, if it is a somewhat new site, then you are doing very well indeed. a2b2 answered a and b already. Good luck!

If you look arround, you may be able to find a host with an un-metered bandwidth supply. If not then you will be looking a mid - high end vps or low end dedicated server.

If you look arround, you may be able to find a host with an un-metered bandwidth supply. If not then you will be looking a mid - high end vps or low end dedicated server.

and thats going to cost me a lot of cash huh? great i got a site with a ton of traffic and cant afford to buy the bandwith.. i so have to figure out how to get money from this site

How much are you paying now and what are you getting in bandwith.

Try applying for Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network. What you also can do is find a sponsor indeed. I run a forum which gets about 100.000+ uniques monthly and that hosting is sponsored as well, thank god ;)

You gotta know for yourself what is causing all that traffic. Use that knowledge to target your advertisements on your website to gain a high clickthrough rate.

How much are you paying now and what are you getting in bandwith.
Copy-paste answers ain't gonna cut it ;)

505.07 of 150 GB available data transfer Used is my bandwith and i'm paying 200 for the year from my hosting

How much are you paying now and what are you getting in bandwith.

I cant load the statistics!!

But you should consider getting dedicated server.

See RackForce.com

btw - whats the domain name?

btw - whats the domain name?


nyfuntime.com is my domain

how did you advertise the website then?

yeah it looks really expensive :)

What kind of site do you have, that you've burned through so much bandwidth already, but have such a small budget?

For comparison, I have a fairly small niche site that I started back in 1998. The server footprint is still under a hundred megs, and I go through only maybe seventy gigs of bandwidth a month for about eighteen thousand visitors a day. But I'm on a hundred-dollar-a-month VPS server, with e-mail on a separate paid service; I also have a third-party paid tracking service. I will probably be moving to a $400-ish/month dedicated server this summer.

On the other hand, it sounds like you've only just started (since you aren't familiar with basic terminology like "bandwidth"), yet you've filled 1.6 gigs of server space and you're burning through more gigs in a day than I do in a month. Your site is huge and has massive traffic, it would appear. So why do you think that "150 bucks" is enough? And why did you establish such a huge site with no support in place?

Your stats-image link isn't working, so please reply with clarification regarding the nature of your site and traffic. Thank you.

Eliz.

Maybe the OP should figure out WHERE the bandwidth is being consumed.

Seems to me a forum that has only had a maximum of 30 some of users logged on simultaneously ought not to have all that much bandwidth sucked up in such a short period of time.

Now if the OP's bandwidth is being consumed through due to providing downloads of thousands of x rated images or video, then the OP is getting about what could be expected - lots of traffic and bandwidth.

At any rate, the obvious question is not a technical one: is there a business plan?

Maybe the OP should figure out WHERE the bandwidth is being consumed.

Seems to me a forum that has only had a maximum of 30 some of users logged on simultaneously ought not to have all that much bandwidth sucked up in such a short period of time.

Now if the OP's bandwidth is being consumed through due to providing downloads of thousands of x rated images or video, then the OP is getting about what could be expected - lots of traffic and bandwidth.

At any rate, the obvious question is not a technical one: is there a business plan?


i just built the site for fun... i have no business in mind, i didnt think i would get 3100 members to my site in a month... i think i wasted all my bandwith by advertising on youtube.. i put up this video http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-RNmzgs-DQ and then they just kept on coming and coming to check it out.. i'm just 25 years old in college and didnt think it would cost alot of money to keep this site going.. if someone were to offer me a good price for it i would take it in a heart beat.. but until then i have to figure out how i can make this site make me money.. any suggestions would be great :D


here's the link to my info i just tried it and it works fine..
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledpp2.jpg

Send me a PM, I do some free hosting on the side and might be able to help...

http://www.servage.net/ <--- 2TBs of bandwidth for $6.45

My friends host with them, and they know its a good deal.

http://hostdime.com <--- dedicated servers start at $89 for 1.5TB of bandwidth and your own box. Yes they're Celerons, but still.....

In any case, optimize your site first before you upgrade.

Are people hot linking your images?

Do you use large images?

Do you use thumbnails or do you just shrink a large image down using HTML?

Where is the majority of your bandwidth use coming from? A single big file, or a series of little files. If its the former, then you may want to just restrict that file to specific users.

That's just the tip of the iceburg too. I once made the mistake of jumping servers before I optimized, and I hated myself for it... though at the time I justified it by saying "oh it gives me room to grow".