At 12:22 AM 3/15/99 -0500, Jason O Papadopoulos so eloquently stated:
>Greetings,
>
>I was wondering if anyone could suggest some methodology used to
>calculate ideal Data Transfer rates for Web-sites. Some web-hosts
>provide limited transfer rates from anything like 1000MB/month,
>2000/MB/month up to unlimited MB/month.
>
>Ofcourse the added data-transfer options add to the cost/month. I was
>wondering how others on this list tried to identify suitable Web-Hosting
>services for each customer (i.e. what criteria do you evaluate, how do
>you contrast and prioritize he various criteria and how do you make
>value estimates) in addition identifying how much data transfer you must
>permit for for a particular project?
>
This was posted on E-Tailer's Digest. He used a 50k file size
which is too high. As indicated in subsequent posts, if should
be more around 15-20k. The original question asked was "What
happens if you exceed the transfer size?" Do you lose the data.
George
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>Subject: Re: 1,000MB monthly transfer
>From: Joseph Jobst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hi, George, and STOoi,
>
><snip>
>>[Moderator's Comments]
>>It depends on your hosting company. Ask them. Most charge extra.
>
>As everywhere, you will get what you pay for! There are hundreds
>of (unfair) hosting companies offering hosting services for lets
>say $9.95 a month, ballyhooing everything included, but when it
>comes to realty next to nothing is available.
>
>They make money subsequently...
>
>Reliable webhosting comp's will ask their prospective clients for
>their needs, providing services which meet exactly their
>customer's requirements.
>
>>Which brings up another question. How do you know how
>>much space is enough? Some hosting companies offer
>>various amounts of space, i.e., 5MB, 10 MB, 50MB, etc.
>>How can you calculate how much you need?
>
>To save space I'll show a very simplified calculation: according
>to several studies the average size of current web pages is about
>47K, rounded off 50K to simplify matters-- i.e. lets have 100
>pages * 50K results in 5.000K total, that's 5MB.
>
>The next important measure to estimate is bandwidth/traffic.
>Studies say the average surfer remains on a web site visiting 4
>pages. That means
>4 pages * 50K equals 200K
>getting 100 visitors a day * 200K equals 2MB/day
>* 30 days amounts to 0.6GB of monthly traffic!
>1.000 visitors a day = 6GB.
>
>Hint: choose webhosting services offering unlimited bandwidth/traffic!
>
>Hope I made the whole stuff understandable ;-)
>Joseph Jobst
>josconNetworks, Inc
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