Letter of The Week:

Q:
I'm trying to equate the following:
hits per day into MB/sec of bandwidth requirements

Can you point me to a chart or metric of some sort ?

A:
Your bandwidth requirements would be directly proportional to the
size of your website, If you know that 70% of people only view the first two pages then you can add the sums of the two pages (for example 100Kb) and take that number X each hit.

So if you get 100,000 hits then theoretically you could figure
70,000 hits will be viewing at least 100K so you can figure on 7000000 Kb or 7MB. Then factor what the other 30 percent will be viewing. So you really are stuck with a Liberal & a Conservative number.

If you are trying to determine a number to use as a guide to what
web space you are getting, then my advice would be to get a website from someone who offers unlimited bandwidth i.e. transfers.

Some companies say up to 150,000 web page accesses or 1GB
transfer, but if your site takes like wild fire, then you may pay out the nose in the future. So don't get stuck with a bandwidth plan if you can avoid it.

Cheers,
Allen Gagle
Editor

 

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