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Bandwidth Question

  • 24-02-2005 6:56pm
    #1
    Zounds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I'm considering use http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net to host a webpage i'm building. But i'm wondering could anyone enlighten me as to what 1gb of bandwidth means in practical terms?
    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i don't know how to word it properly but here is an example

    you have a file of 500megs on your web space. if it's downloaded twice you've exceeded your bandwidth limit


  • #3
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    It's quite a lot for a small personal website, not very much for a large e-commerce concern.

    The maths is easy enough, work out the weight of your pages (html+images+js etc.) and divide the gigabyte by that number.

    A gigabyte is 1,048,576k, or 1,000,000k, depending on who is counting. Let's use the simple numbers.

    So if your page is 100k, (a typcial page size with a few well-compressed images) that means that you can serve out 10,000 of those pages for your $1 charge. Hope that puts it into some sort of perspective for you.


  • #4
    Zounds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Zounds


    sorta knew that myself already, just wasn't sure how exactly it worked,
    Thanks


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