Jamie Whitfield

HI

I was hoping someone could shed some light on this for me please.

Roughly speaking how many visitors would it take to exceed 3GB of bandwidth in a month?

Twice last month I had to pay £40 to buy an extra gig as my host took the site offline with a bandwidth exceeded message!

I cant see that 1000-2000 visits shown on my site meter each month can be enough to do this, can you?

Am I being ripped off, how do I prove it and who else can host my site, and how do I change my host?

Any help would be as ever gratefully received.

Many thanks.

Jamie

www.j-w-racing.com

Trout...

Jamie,

sorry to hear you could be paying more - but it sounds like the price of success to me - good luck.

Trout

Jamie Whitfield

Thanks, I don't mind paying more as obviously more hits equals more sales but to upgrade 3 times in a little over a month seems a bit over the top?

Jamie Whitfield

Right it seems like if you have a picture hosted on your website used on an internet forum this counts as a hit!

I've removed all my pictures off forums, but a kind request goes out to other who have put pictures up from my site, please don't do it! Or I'll be charging rent!

Thanks.

Jamie

Billabong

Jamie, had a quick look round your site.

Change your homepage logo - it's unnecessarily large (file size, not physically) - it's basically black text on a white background - optimize it using 2 colours instead of the 128 or so the image contains - this will go a long way to reducing your bandwidth utilisation for starters.

Don't forget, that's 68K (roughly) each and everytime a new visitor goes to that page. You should be able to get that down to less than 10k. If you get 1000 visitors, that's 58k x 1000 in SAVED bandwidth.

Also, I noticed that some of your pictures are larger than you actually display them. Resize the pictures and optimize for the size you want to display them at.

e.g. spf_photo.jpg - you display at 207x149, when the actual picture is 260x204 - again, you are wasting your bandwidth.

Here's an example:


Your pic approx 19K


Optimized and sized correctly 7.78K

I think you'll agree, it doesn't lose much in the way of quality, yet it will save you approx 11K x number of visitors to that page - again, that's a hell of a saving.

It could take you some time to optimize all your site graphics in this way, but the pay off is a faster to browse site for your visitors, and large savings on your bandwidth bills.

People often think, "well, it's only a couple of kilobytes difference..." but when you multiply that by the number of views...... you get the idea.

Hope this helps

Bill


PS - above piccies not served from your site, btw

[Edited by Billabong - 8/24/2002 1:28:05 PM]

super_si

for £90 year my mates doing Unlimited everything.

Si

ChrisB

Unlimited until you really start to hammer things...

Lee

No such thing as unlimited - unlimited bollox more like

www.unlimband.com

Lee

Oh, forgot to add, in september my company is doing a "double whammy" promo

eg pay for a 1Gb account and get a 2Gb one.

www.titanhosts.net

may be of interest

Dream Weaver

Jamie - Billabong has given you the best advice possible there - reduce all your image sizes, and page sizes for your site - if you need any help email me.

DW

Jamie Whitfield

Thanks for all your help lads!

DW I'll let you know how it goes - thanks!

Jamie