Bandwidth issue and db size?

[noobintraining]

I am wondering how much bandwidth is actually needed. I am estimating at the very most around a total of 5000 registered users and about 50 concurrent users.

Also, does anybody know what the average size of the db gets?

Sorry guys but I totally am starting from square 1. I'm going to barnes & nobles to pick up some books.

Thanks!

[jdearing]

i have about 2500 registered users and around 75 concurrent users and my bandwidth usage runs around 40GB per month..

[ccd1]

Originally posted by noobintraining
I am wondering how much bandwidth is actually needed. I am estimating at the very most around a total of 5000 registered users and about 50 concurrent users.

Also, does anybody know what the average size of the db gets?

Sorry guys but I totally am starting from square 1. I'm going to barnes & nobles to pick up some books.

Thanks!

Depends, really. Factors such as images, attachments and compression can vary things greatly.

I can handle 30 concurrent users with a 256 kbps connection, but my site is GZIPed and has few images.

[adrianchew]

80 concurrent and 2000+ users of which 500+ visit each day about 40% registered/60% guests and under 10GB for now. I'm expecting that to spike soon though (seasonal).

I do have GZIP enabled plus have replaced various buttons with text links. No attachment serving, avatars.

[noobintraining]

Thanks guys for the input!

jdearing: do you have avatars/banners/signatures and are your users able to post pics? I'm just wondering why 40gb / month!!! I hope I won't be using that much bandwidth!

baragon0: you mind me asking you how much bandwidth you go through a month?

adrianchew: 80 concurrent and 2k+ users. This is what my ideal situation is probably going to look like. I already underestimated concurrent users. But total registered would be closer to 3-4k. You say it's under 10gb for now, but is that from the start of the month til now? (3 days)... Or is that the average you go through a month. I just want to make sure. But I think I will follow in your footsteps with disabling attached files. I would love to NOT have avatars but the age group I'm trying to reach loves those things. Could you suggest a good size limitation for avatars? And about signature banners?

Hope you guys don't mind my questions!
Thanks!

[adrianchew]

Note - 10GB is just outgoing Web traffic though. I have low signature length limits (no long signatures) plus no avatars - plus a lot of people who hang around a few hours a day I suspect.

Avatars can quickly add up to a whole lot more bandwidth - unless you just let them link to an avatar they have stored somewhere else other than your site.

[ccd1]

Originally posted by noobintraining

baragon0: you mind me asking you how much bandwidth you go through a month?


Around five gigabytes, but my bandwidth is never at full throttle (users never experience a slow down) because it's evenly distributed.

Should also note I run other websites on this server.

[irc]

50-100 concurrent users (mostly guests these days). 2500 memberships, about 1500 posts a week.

GB? Under 10.

Database size? 70,000+ posts. Well over 100G

[jdearing]

I allow everything VBulletin has to offer....

Plus, I do run banners as well.

[rapdis]

My forum has 700 members and bout 20,000 posts, only 300 are reguler but yet i churn 44gb.

I have no idea why.

I use gzip

[Steve Machol]

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[rapdis]

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