10mb unlimited transfer...

[infexious]

Ok guys, forget about all the processor and memory that would be needed, im trying to do some maths based on bandwidth here.

I have been offered an unlimited bandwidth server with hostgator, which has 10 megabits unlimited bandwidth.

Now, in theory this equates to about 100 gig per day, but i wonder if the pipe is wide enough to support 300 - 600 concurrent users ?

Any advice please.

[calgarypuck]

Short answer yes, long answer it depends.

Our forum runs a much smaller pipe than that and we go from 300 to 600 concurrent users all the time.

Where it depends is what you are hosting. We don't host sig images or have albums or show thread previews or any of those other high-bandwidth type features.

Plus we use a content delivery network (CDN) to serve up the static images on the site.

Even so, when we get up to the top end of our max concurrent users, we do saturate our pipe but our pipe is a lot smaller than 10Mbit.

Without really heavy stuff like albums and letting people upload big sigs, and assuming you configure Apache properly so images get cached for a good amount of time, I'd be surprised if you ran more than 100 or 200GB a month, let alone a day, unless your forum is really fast.

[encryption]

Ok guys, forget about all the processor and memory that would be needed, im trying to do some maths based on bandwidth here.

I have been offered an unlimited bandwidth server with hostgator, which has 10 megabits unlimited bandwidth.

Now, in theory this equates to about 100 gig per day, but i wonder if the pipe is wide enough to support 300 - 600 concurrent users ?

Any advice please.

if you're planning on running vanilla forums with no media / large image files on the server, I dont think you'll pass 150 GB in a month (if that)

[infexious]

where did i say i was running vanilla forums ?

i use phpbb now and will upgrade to vbulletin in a year or so when its not so horrifically painful on the eye =)

[calgarypuck]

where did i say i was running vanilla forums ?

i use phpbb now and will upgrade to vbulletin in a year or so when its not so horrifically painful on the eye =)

By vanilla I think he means nothing extra installed, no plugins that play with huge images or incur lots of extra bandwidth, that sort of thing, not vanilla as in plain looking.

I agree with his estimate, but of course if you allow users to upload and share multiple megabyte image files this will increase things greatly.