From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jackson" Subject: Hosting: Estimating Bandwidth uses? Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:57:46 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205171257.AA548274428@wcox.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org First the question,how can I estimate bandwith being used on virtual hosting sites? Now the sorid details: During the recent forest fires here in Colorado(US), A local website which ran a blog,and chat group to keep local residents update, was getting 500,000 "pageviews" per day. The web sites owner problem is he's being billed for pageview over certain limit? His hosting company only provides pageviews, now bandwith used? My comment was "most" webhost offer a base andwitdth usealy between 3-5 Gb/mo as a starting point. I might as well as be talking to a brickwall? He wants a site with "unlimited" pageviews? Back to my question, is their some why to estimate bandwidth using web access logs for intance? Or if the average page size was 1mb and he 500,000 on a single would 500,000 mb of bandwidth be a good estimate? TIH, David