Hi

I have a drupal site about 10 megs + database 20 megs.

So, the total bandwith that each user will take is 30 megs?


How do you calculate?
I need to know this so I will take the right package.

Thanks

You question doesn't really make sense. You want to know how much bandwidth a pageview will take? We can't know that from the information that you've given.

Well, I don't understand it then.

There is a bandwidth, and there is an amount of information (kilobytes) that someone can download from the site.

If the site weights 20 megs then what else matters?


I have the minimal package.



Thanks

The size of your database doesn't matter when it comes to bandwidth usage. You could have a 200GB database driving your site and when someone access your site, it could still only take 10KB or 100KB or what ever depending on the page.

Take a look at the size of your page. In Firefox, right-click > View Page Info. Better yet, get the YSlow extension and analyze your page. That's the bandwidth usage.

Honestly, unless you have a super popular site or are dishing out large files, I really doubt you'll hit 200GB of usage.

Thanks for the reply.

I didn't meant database bandwidth but server output bandwidth.

The load on the lines / transfer rate.

so, a 200 gb can support let say a 10,000 surfers , simultaneously?

How big is your average page? How many page views per month do you have, not wish you had, but really have?

it is only an idea plus investigation right now.

no page
no site yet

Without actual statistics and information it's hard to say.

But just guessing, since most sites are not nearly as popular as the site maintainers think or want them to be That 200GB of transfer per month is going to be just fine.

I doubt you're going to have 10,000 simultaneous visitors or even 50 visitors per day to start with. Start small and see where things go.

Say your page was 100KB in size (probably a large page for a "normal" site and possibly a smaller page for a flashy/media site). At 200GB per month, your page could be downloaded 2,097,152 times in that month. (if my math is correct). That's nearly 70,000 page views per day.

Think big, sure, but start small. You can't get to the top of the stairs in a single step.

you are right.


but on the forums people talks a lot about their hosting companies
shuts down the site because of this problem.


I just don't know what to think .......


that is why I went for a vps,
the nginx is much better then apache in high loads.

so it also in forums.
I'm a newbe


Thanks for the help

Yes, a low-end, crappy host with hard limits will do that.

A quality host, such as Linode will not do this. Linode is serious about their business and customers and know what customer service means. The other guys just want your money and don't care if you have crummy service.

http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-if-i ... a-transfer

There are quality shared hosts out there, they are just far and few between. You get what you pay for.