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So, this topic doesn't belong anywhere else, apparently.

About how much is 100GB of bandwidth in comparison to other amounts, like 2GB or 250GB?

100GB is more than 2GB, less than 250GB.

Are you planning to rent a webserver?

I mean...is 100GB a lot? Like, how many page views?

Yes, I am looking at a webserver.

Depends on what you're hosting.
Look at the size of all your images/pages/whatever that you're going to host. Add up the filesize. Let's say it's a megabyte.
On a 100GB server, you'd get 102400 pageviews before you run out of bandwidth.
That's being pretty lenient since most visitors on your site won't see -every- single image and page on your site.

If you're talking 100GB a month, that's a huge amount. If it's 100GB a year, that's still a huge amount. Of course, it all depends on what the website is hosting and how many people are going to be hitting it, but certainly no small-scale personal website would need anything like that.

The Real N site got by for the first year with only 3 GB a month bandwidth. We were getting about 20 thousand hits a month back then, which is fairly large as far as personal sites go. (We were being viewed by the entire active Metanet community every time a comic was posted, after all.) Unless your site is hosting videos like YouTube, or you're serving an audience 300 times bigger than Metanet, 100 GB is plenty.

With numbers like that, however, I'm sure you're talking about a shared hosting plan. Plans like that always give you more space or bandwidth than any reasonable person could ever need, and they close your site if you use too much CPU time. You'll almost definitely break the CPU usage cap before you hit the bandwidth cap. Not that shared hosting is bad; it's what we use. Just know that if your site hits the front page of Digg or Reddit, your high bandwidth won't save you from being shut off.

LittleViking wrote: Unless your site is hosting videos like YouTube, or you're serving an audience 300 times bigger than Metanet, 100 GB is plenty.

Not to be confused with embeding youtube videos on your website, which will add virtually no bandwidth increase to your site as the youtube videos are being pulled off youtube directly.

If your site is a social network you are trying to create for you and friends, then it could add up. Because some people might upload plenty of photos, and videos, music, etc etc.
The situation here is whether or not you are getting high amounts of members, or hits.

It really depends on what you use it for, and if it's used often.

100GB is pretty good, but as Kwiftee said it really does depend on what you're hosting.

If you're hosting a ton of games and large images, you'll probably need that much.

If you're hosting a blog with few images or anything else, a few GB should be fine.


Just be sure not to confuse bandwidth with file storage, because they're very different.