I just want to have a clue about how much bandwidth i need to set up a php-forum. How long will 3gb last?

Thanks

Depends on what you are hosting. If it contains pictures, multiple it by the average day of views.

10kb picture X 200 avergave daily visitors = 2MB

Depends on the number of users on the forum, and how busy it is on a normal basis, really.

How many users are on yours?

I have a moderately active forum (200 users or so) that runs through 250 - 300MB a day.

Well that will not be that many...mayby 50 users a day...maximum.

I was thinking of an offer i saw...in that case i would get 7gb bandwidth

And one more question, how much storage do all messages take? From lets say 50 ppl?

OK this is simple, I dealt with both post and php nuke

on average
php nuke with about 15 topics
and 7 articles main page.

that's about 12000 page loads per gig

turn on the gzip and it changes to 13000 to 16000

change to 5 aticles on the main page = 16000 +

tune the php or post nuke and you can pull about 25 to 30k in page loads per gig.


some basic tuning tricks

1) reduce the graphics of the topics to a standard size ( like 80 x 80 )
2) optimize all the graphics
3) turn on the gzip
4) set the cookies for your users to weekly or longer ( you avoid the extra page loads that way if they have to log in every day )

after a month, check your log files for the most commonly loaded graphics (top 3 ), then reoptimize them from the orginal file, get it a bit smaller than the current one.

after a few months of this, you will notice that your page loading size have decrease while the amount of people on your site have increase.

Mike

Thanks alot...that will be usefull...