Web Hosting Talk : Other Forums : Web Hosting Lounge : 6gb banwidth a month? breakdown please

[Ghostwriter]

OK I was just wondering and hoping someone can shed some light on this for me. How good is 6gb of bandwidth a month? Lets say this was for a semi popular site with banners,forums, etc.

I read somewhere where they broke it down to 1000,000 page views a day yadda, yadda. So if possible can someone expalin to this 2year old if 6gb is good to start with or is it to low, or can the site be hit by 5000 people a day/month and not exceed the limit.

Again some banners, images, but nothing major.
Thanks for any replies.

[UnitedTec]

6 gigs of transfer is plenty for most sites. In fact, the majority of sites never use 1 gig a month. You banners may be served from another server, it depends on the ad campaign that you use. The problem you may run into with the forum is not the bandwidth, but the system resources that it takes up. Go with a quality program such as the one used here, and you should not have any problems. I have noticed that vBulletin takes up very little resources on our servers, and it is very easy to set up.

[etLux]

6GB/month is a great deal of transfer... and as my respected colleague noted above, few sites exceed 1GB/month.

One thing to watch for, though, is what the cost of bandwidth *beyond* your allocation costs. Any host that doesn't explicitly tell you this figure may be hiding a "gotcha" down the road.

You never know where a site will go -- I've surely had a few (pleasant) surprises -- and if your site takes off, the cost of bandwith overages can be an important financial factor.