How much bandwidth do you really need?

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So in my debate over hosting services I constantly keep asking myself how much bandwidth is really needed? Places like hostgator are giving away 6tb of bandwidth...and I have to ask myself how much of this is really put into use? When I check out dedicated hosting (just for kicks) most are much lower, but I assume that dedicated servers are usually used by those with a lot of traffic, right? So the question is how much bandwidth do you guys use...can you guys throw out some numbers for me to get an idea?

Oh, also what is the throughput on a run of the mill shared hosting like hostgator per user?
 


he's an idea, just get started

when you need more bandwidth you'll know

quit fucking around and delaying getting started.

in the words of Ben Franklin:

"You may delay, but time will not."
 
1) You wont get 6tb out of Host Gator, Dream Host, or anyone else for that matter. Their TOS denies almost anything which would get you anywhere close.

2) Most sites use very little bandwidth, in fact my best performing sites all use between 50gig to 1tb per month. Theres a number of sites in the top 1,000 on Alexa which don't even max out a full 10mbit.

3) Low ROI sites tend to suck up the most bandwidth. I have many sites which average 8-20mbit and barely make me 10% ROI.

4) Overall, on all my servers I roughly hit a 120mbit average.
 
Thanks for the info Insomniac. I had been wondering this when comparing hosts. I always figured once you started getting close they'd figure out some bs reason to terminate service. Better yet your examples helped out a bunch as I'm looking at some options for work sites.
 
They give you all that bandwidth, but limit your CPU usage. So the only way you can use it all is if you just do file hosting.

Personally I've never used more than 50GB/month, between ALL my sites. Not including proxies.
 
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