Comments on: How much hosting bandwidth do you need?

By: Jackson Smith Johnny Jakeson Jameson Bryan Kingston

Jackson Smith Johnny Jakeson Jameson Bryan Kingston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:47:38 +0000

Thanks for this explanation. Very useful and informative.

By: Ramon Fincken

Ramon Fincken — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:44:39 +0000

Very nice explained, there are also a lot of calculators on the web.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:21:09 +0000

Hi. How about Bandwith IN and Bandwidth OUT? What is that?

Also, I am making cost for website with features like youtube where people view and upload videos. How do you then calculate bandwidth?

Say, each video is being uploaded and viewed has maximum has maximum size of 50MB. Will that be added to the page size?

What will be the best estimate page size (for calculation purposes) for a regular web page?

Thank you. Reading this article is very informative.

Thanks.

By: Nigeria News24

Nigeria News24 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:04:23 +0000

Thanks for the well explained document. we have always tried to work out how much band W we actually need.Thanks Again

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:52:32 +0000

“…or somewhere between 12.6 and 15.1 gigabytes per month.”

But what would that translate to if you were buying your own pipe? That is, if you were kitting out your own Internet connection, would you consider a 3Mb/s connection? 30Mb/s? 300Mb/s? 3Gb/s? 30Gb/s?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:28:35 +0000

I am new to all this and wanting to start an online store. Is BigCommerce a good platform? For 100 products, JPGs etc?

By: Xavier

Xavier — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:18:49 +0000

@megin

Do yourself a favor and forget about Volusion. All they have is an outdated e-commerce application with absolutely NO SEO. Their business model is based on overcharging for bandwith (read the small print…)

If an online store is what you’re after, go to a modern e-commerce platform like shopify.com or similar.

If you decide to go with Volusion, I am looking forward to your comments back in this post in about 3 months

By: Megin

Megin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:07:03 +0000

Volusion has been recommended to me. The offer 250 bandwidth and a full service hosting environment, including SEO, SSL, and e-commerce. Any comments welcome.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:32:23 +0000

@lori

The number that you should get will be in kilobytes.

50,400,000,000 kilobytes = 50,400 gigabytes

So you’re probably wondering why that’s such a ridiculous number, and I think it’s because the pageviews were miscalculated. The average page views are not supposed to be per day or anything, just how many pages are viewed by each visitor.

Looking at your numbers, your average pageview is probably 2 (not 8000 -> 4000 visitors per day each visiting 2 pages).

So to recalculate it for you:

2 Pageviews (average per visitor)
35 kilobytes (average page size)
4000 visitors (per day)
30 days
1.5-1.8 (redundant factor)

= 12,600,000 to 15,120,000 kilobytes per month

or somewhere between 12.6 and 15.1 gigabytes per month.

Not quite enough to need a dedicated server, but I would definitely look into a good virtual private server if I were you.

I hope that helps!

By: lori

lori — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:47:28 +0000

Bandwidth needed = Average Page Views (per day?) x Average Page Size x Average Daily Visitors x Number of days in a month (30) x Redundant Factor

Mine is 8000 x 35 x 4000 x 30 x 1.5 = 50,400,000,000

So what the heck does that huge number mean when the hosting sites say 250GB, 500GB, etc.

Every tutorial I’ve found with this bandwidth calculation does not tell you what the resulting number means. Obviously it isn’t GB right? So what is it?

By: mathew

mathew — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:38:08 +0000

hi i am bit confused. i have a bulk sms website and is hosted on esnet dedicated server. but the reports says that the site is up but the site gets too slow when using the database.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:15:24 +0000

I have been with bluehost for 2 years or so and at this stage I have not had any problems with hosting.

What I would like to know is how much monthly bandwidth is acceptable to bluehost.

As I add more and more domains, it would be advantageous to stage within an acceptable limit.

Dave