hey everyone,

Can someone give me some technical specs on about how much disk space and bandwidth a typical small business ecommerce site uses up? I was just wondering so that i can allocate my resources accordingly. Also, how much bandwidth/diskspace would an average website need? Thank you all in advanced for your help.

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Honestly? Let's say they get 5 orders a day (250 visitors a day), and no demo videos on the site, you're probably looking at about 50 MB of disk or so, most of which would be for logs and email, and about 1 GB for transfer.

George

Wow that's all? I thought it would be at least 5x the amount of transfer.

Originally posted by MadPinger
Wow that's all? I thought it would be at least 5x the amount of transfer.

That would be depending on your pages' size and hits. I have an project I am developing now. We are waiting 3000 hits per day for first page and first page is 175 KBs long ;) I mean you should specify your fist page size initially. After that you can cross it with the hits you waiting. After doing it cross it again with 1.65 That would give you a sample bandwith.

The average ecommerce oriented site (at least on our servers) uses about 50MB and less than 1GB of traffic per month.

But, if you plan on getting a ton of visitors, make sure the plan you choose allows for growth. When planning for traffic on an sales oriented site, assume the worst, but plan for the best. :)

Thanks for the help everyone. It will help me to determine prices and specs for plans that i plan on reselling.