Webspace and Bandwidth

Malexos · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:47 am Post subject: Webspace and Bandwidth

I wanted to know how much webspace and bandwidth FAC uses per month. I'm in the middle of finding a hosting plan, and i don't want to pay too much for extra bandwidth & webspace when I don't need it.

Silver Plan
10 GB webspace
200 GB bandwidth

Gold Plan
15 GB webspace
500 GB bandwidth

Diamond Plan
27 GB webspace
750 GB bandwidth
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Nachtwind · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:32 am Post subject:

well i dont actually know the numbers, so i can only guess.

Bandwidth:
FAC has more than 55 thousand registered users.
Lets say half of them looks day to day at only one single 74kb pic - so no website structure or someething else counted in. This would be about 2GB traffic per day - if i only count these.
Then there are maaany not registered users and of course also those who do more than just look at one picture per session...
So roughly i would guess that the per day bandwidth of FAC is at about 5 to 7 GB so per month roughly aroound one quarter TB

Webspace:
I say that normal 1024x768x32 JPEG has about 80kb size, so this is my basis:
The newest pictre we have right now is the one with the number 476376. Lets say we have so many pics of only 80kb (of course it varies in reality) we have a shine mass of 36.4GB theoretical pics (lets say we have also clustered harddiscs so its about 38 or 39GB just for this.
Then there is the database which is also space consuming... 55k users all with the information about them, the infos about their pics etc gets also counted, though its hard to measure... lets see
My 550User Forum, using quite the same tables like this one here, but with far less additional data like pics and so has now a size of 78MB... just transferred onto 55k users this would be 7.8GB. (yeah, that calc is silly but its about dimensions)

So all in all - how about something beyond diamond?
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Malexos · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:52 am Post subject:

Ahh! My brain hurts . . .

Thanks for the help, my website isn't [i]nearly[/i] as popular as FAC, so I'll obviously use much lower, but if we do grow, I'll have to think of something . . .

how the heck did you guys get so popular?!?
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cstdenis · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

FAC uses 1-2TB of bandwidth a month, spread across 5 dedicated servers with 3 different hosting companies.