Advice on bandwidth
Can anyone give me some advice on the average bandwidth you offer for a basic hosting package? What in your opinion is the industry standard.
Thanks
Jim Hoffman
The 11th Hour SEO
Can anyone give me some advice on the average bandwidth you offer for a basic hosting package? What in your opinion is the industry standard.
Thanks
Jim Hoffman
The 11th Hour SEO
Suzanne posted this at 00:21 — 30th May 2004.
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There is no such thing. The bandwidth allotment seems to vary all over the place. If there is any rule of thumb it's a very complicated one.
100M = 1G seems to be new trend, anyway.
teammatt3 posted this at 01:26 — 30th May 2004.
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I would say 50 gigabytes is the norm
openmind posted this at 19:54 — 30th May 2004.
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Yeh right! Every site should have enough bandwidth to serve 10,000,000 page views a month!
The bandwidth issue really p***es me off simply because all the low cost hosts offer stacks of bandwidth that they know for a fact that the client will never use! I would love to lamp of couple of real heavy traffic sites that uses 90% of the bandwidth allowance and watch the server fall over!
The VAST majority of hosts that offer bandwidth at anything more than 10GB per month and then charge a reasonable fee for overuse are either falling into the category above or, as Andy says, lacking in other areas.
It's about time that hosts stopped devaluing the industry, gave people wjhat they actually needed rather than what they think they need and strated being honest!
Rant over
andy206uk posted this at 10:55 — 30th May 2004.
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Most of the time you get what you pay for... and if your getting loads more than your paying for then usually the host is compensating for downfalls in other areas (ie customer support, uptime etc...).
Andy
teammatt3 posted this at 20:15 — 30th May 2004.
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I am just telling you what the "norm" is, not what I think is reasonable
openmind posted this at 20:20 — 30th May 2004.
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But thats my point. You said "the norm is 50GB" therefore that indicates you wouldn't consider a plan offering less than that.
There is no such thing as a median amount of bandwidth as it will range from <10GB from hosts that know what they are doing to unlimited GB for hosts that live on Mars
So my question to you would be what is reasonable?
BIGMONAY posted this at 00:53 — 31st May 2004.
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flipper, make some good point there mmmmmm.
sarge299 posted this at 14:24 — 2nd June 2004.
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Thanks all for your comments. If I started something, I didnt mean to, sorry.
It was just that I offer less bandwidth than I have seen around and thought that perhaps if I increased it, it would also increase my sign ups. Even though the customers I have now dont use what they are alloted, I was just hoping to get an idea of what I could increase it too without making it seem to far fetched.
Thanks again.
Jim Hoffman
The 11th Hour SEO
openmind posted this at 14:45 — 2nd June 2004.
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Hey don't apoligise!
Thats the best thing about forums in that they allow for open and honest debate!
teammatt3 posted this at 14:15 — 3rd June 2004.
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Nothing like an ol' debate!
openmind posted this at 14:17 — 3rd June 2004.
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damn right!
leandroaliaj posted this at 22:03 — 5th January 2005.
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Anyway, never go with anything that says "unlimited".
poolpaki posted this at 06:19 — 6th January 2005.
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lol
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