how much bandwith?

[SticKer]

hey hi guys,

i am planing to start a new site with this script. before i go ahead with my plans i would like to know how much of bandwidth would be required per month.


Regards,
SticKer.

[Simon]

Asking that is like asking how long is a piece of string. Bandwidth per month is basically page size x page views (per month) - it is dependent on the number of page views, as well as page size.

Page size - if you use demo.pligg.com as a marker for a default installation, its about 110kb per front page view. You can decrease that through things like compression and removing unwanted javascript. I have mine down to around 40kb per front page view for example. Other pages will vary in size, but you can use that as an estimatory figure.

Page views - entirely down to how popular your site is!

[abcdefgary]

yeah, like simon says, it's basically how many visitors you get that will load the page and download the contents

[dollars5]

If you have limited bandwidth that you feel might have been eaten up too fast some suggestions to save your bandwidth:

1] If your site is of low traffic - you can host your logo and other request images on some third party hosts - there are many who offer you a great package for just professional image hosting - but mind you not all such image hosts are allowed by corporate firewalls - I know many organizations that kill requests to imageshak.us and photobucket. And for images use GIF for transparent ones (renders good on all browsers+small in size) PNG 8bit for other images - if image is to have more colors - try medium quality JPEG.

2] As simon said - reduce the images, use JS compressions, enable gzip file serving from htaccess that will save your bandwidth as well as the users bandwidth - they will Thank you for keeping you site light weight.

3] Last but not the least - find a good host for a low price+good lot bandwidth offering. mediaTemple, Site5, DreamHost are a few to name.