Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Web Hosting : Question regarding forums and bandwidth.

[LK-47]

I was just wondering how much bandwidth you all use a month and the stats for your forum.

Users/Threads/Posts/Avg. amount of Active Users/Bandwidth

[FIAHOST]

Our support forum uses about 1 Gb a month.

124 users/ 1200 posts / 3 users average

We use phpBB and a light mod.

[Gary Brahmi]

It all depends upon the threads and the posts to them you have every month. But generally around 1 or 2 GB is the average bandwidth consumption per month.

[ChristsLittleFlock]

My forum uses about 1.5 GB per month on average and that is growing. Only 51 members, only up to about 5 on at a time, but about 1,000 posts per month. Not the most active.

[adamjon]

I am a mod on a local saltwater fish forum. We have 900 members and have 10-30 members on at a time. Last month we had 3.5gb of transfer and the full site takes up about 70mb.

[FIAHOST]

The problem isn't with the transfer but with the CPU and RAM load.

Here is an example from one of our customers forum. This forum is hosted on a dedicated machine:

54000 messages
7800 members
30 Avg membres
520 Max online members [the servers crashed]

50 Gb a month.

I think the BW is not the first limit.