Monthly bandwidth for, e.g. BCF?

[impaler]

Does anyone have an educated guesstimate of the kind of bandwidth a forum like BCF uses in a month and the speed of the required internet connection? I mean, does it require a dedicated server and many gigabytes of data transfer, or could you get reasonable performance on an ADSL line with a few hundred megabytes of data a month?
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[impaler]

Thanks for the replies, I realise it was a bit of a vague question. I am thinking about starting a (totally unrelated) message board using my home server, but obviously only having 256kbps upload on my ADSL line might make things a bit painful. I suppose if the number of concurrent users is low enough then it'll be adequate.
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[G]

If you want to use your line at the same time as serving nets, definitely get some 'proper' hosting - from £1 a month or so gets you a much more reliable connection and means that your browsing isn't slowed down when a few people log in.

[impaler]

Yeah, I used to have some low cost hosting for my little, never visited, personal website. A while ago I decided I wanted to stick a Coppermine gallery on there, along with a content management system for my website. Seeing as the very low cost hosting I've seen doesn't generally have PHP and MySQL databases I decided to host from home. But I agree, in the unlikely event I produced a popular website I'd have to go for paid hosting.

To date my web server hasn't really impacted on the performance of my general web use (a bit of extra upload hasn't made much difference). Being on an ADSL Max line will maybe help even further, if Tiscali ever get round to offering me the service
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[G]

Most low cost hosting comes with php and mysql these days.

When hosting stuff from home (cable so only 128 up though) I found it made quite a difference, more when people were downloading a bigger file (ie a picture or similar).

[Itchy]

yeah but we don't have 17000 users , we have about 7000-8000 ish , since we get lots of people who log on ask a question and are never seen again.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Think Korn said the bandwidth was about 25~30gb a month, but that was 2 years ago and it is busier now.

All the best

Keith
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[Korn]

Quite scarily so, yes.

Last month - which was BCF's highest traffic month to date - the site got through 212 Gb of bandwidth.
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[Chriss]

BT now do SDSL, which is much better for hosting than ADSL, for obvious reasons (Google it if you're not sure what SDSL is).

SDSL is limited to 2Mbit though.
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[Kickstart]

I wish.

We are 7km from the exchange by the scenic route that the cables take (just over 5km by road, about 4km directly). Result was that it was only September 2004 when we could get broadband and only then a 512 connection.

Satellite would have been hideously expensive, leased lines even more so.

All the best

Keith
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[Lawnie]

To be honest, 512Kbps is still fast enough for the majority of Internet users. This obviously excludes those on a LAN or with the need to download several hundred megabytes of data an evening. Furthermore, those with the faster connections will also notice fewer websites who offer an equivalent upload transfer rate per connection.

Although we're on 10Mbps, I cannot honestly justify having all this bandwidth. Downloading by HTTP/FTP from anything other than Blueyonder or Microsoft, will not be at 1.2MBps, unless with the use of a spyware-ridden download accelerator.

[Ahmato_]

Mate, I'm not sure if this has come up but try:

https://byethost.com/freeplans.php

Brilliant Stuff there
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[syl]

Bandwidth is a lot cheaper than indicated. Never mind webhosting, you can rent an unmanaged dedicated server with 1000GB a month for under 50 quid (hosting in Germany or the USA is usually far cheaper than the UK - and for something like this forum is just as good). In the UK, £70 a month will get you 3000GB a month .

Take a look here for current examples:

https://webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36
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