greenace92 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I don't have a lot of money and I'm launching a high traffic website, I intend to have a payment system linked to hosting service I am using so that in the event that my website is actually successful, it can expand accordingly. I want to know ahead of time about bandwith usage, I have a 3TB limit per month which may seem like a lot but what if thousands of users are accessing/using files that are between 2 to 10 MB each? Uploading, viewing, scrolling, text... This calculation also applies to storage I haven't really given this much thought, I'm just curious, I have a lot to do and I would like to start amassing information ahead of time Thank you for any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 There's not going to be any fixed calculation you can do to tell you exactly how much bandwidth you'll use. It varies depending on things like how many users (obviously) and what items they allow to be cached vs what is loaded every time. To do a rough estimate, start by figuring out what you site's average page size is. Chrome will tell you how much data was transferred as part of a page load in it's developer tools on the Network tab. Make sure you disable cache when checking, there is a checkbox in the same place to allow you to temporarily disable cache. Load your site and click around a few pages while recording the total data transferred for each page, then average the results. Next multiple that by the number of main requests you estimate you'll have each month. To estimate the # of requests, first estimate the # of users you expect and multiply that by the number of pages you expect each user to view. Alternatively, since you know you have 3TB per month you could divide that by your average page size to determine how many requests you could serve before you exhausted your bandwidth. As you can see, everything is pretty much just estimates until you actually launch the site and can start getting some real statistics. So the question is, how good are you at estimating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenace92 Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 "allow to be cached" how do they decide? I thought that's automatic Site's average page size... what if the content varies eg. content is pumped into the same web page without refreshing, just have a figure of the website and then what is being pumped in? "Chrome will tell you how much data was transferred as part of a page load in it's developer tools on the Network tab" this is interesting ha The other question is, will anyone actually use my website? I have briefly tried advertising to facebook, I think that is one of my major plays but it is insane! I can see how they are a money pit, or I assume they are I mean one click, ONE, to my website, is a whopping $0.42 hell advertising for Google Adsense, I get paid in ****, literally, I just hold out my hand and they squeeze some out for me It's like $0.0001 per view on my end, but their gain is probably at least triple of that if not more #capitalism Have to be the bigger and better rat Thank you very much for your thorough explanation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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