Hosting vs. traffic

Leree · 06-25-2009, 07:32 AM

Hi there everyone,
As I read most of posts on this forum (as well as other forum) I hear a lot about hosting problems, server capacity, server performance etc, but no one seems to be able to tell what kind of traffic requires which kind of hosting plan.
I am planning to start ClipShare site but users will be able only to view clips. I will be responsible for uploading. Movies from this site will be also embedded to my other web sites with reasonably big traffic. So I was wondering: since user traffic will only download movie streams, the most important hosting parameter is transfer limitation.
Only me and 3-4 other people will be uploading movies, and there might me like 30-40 movies a month. This way I believe server performance is not so crucial for site performance.
Am I right? Is there something wrong with my concept?
Could you help me out to figure out how to pick my hosting plan?
I would rather start low cost – preferably shared hosting for first few months.
Thanks for your attention and hope to get some advice.

aspireseries · 06-25-2009, 11:19 AM

Ok, let's say that only 30-40 movies/month will be uploaded - no problem on that - let's say 10mbps bandwith will be enough... but what if those 30 movies you have just uploaded gets visited each 1000 / day... So you've got something like 30.000 views/day or more? I think that those 10mbps of bandwith won't be enough if more than 20-30 users/seconds will see a video at the same time...

For example let's say you have a video with a stream of 500kbps - if 20 users want to see that video at the same time this will mean that the server should be able to use a bandwith of 500kbps x 20 = 10mbps. What if another 5 visitors want to see another movie at the same time beside those 20 first? You don't have enough bandwith...

So you should be looking for 100mbps bandwith... and another term you should look for is the total traffic - for example on 30.000 views of a video with an estimatately 500kbps bitrate / day this would mean 30.000 x 500kbps = 15.000 mbps = 1875 MB ~= 2GB /day - so on a month 2gb x 30 ~= 60GB / month traffic would be enough for you.

It all depends on how much you estimate your videos will be watched...

Leree · 06-25-2009, 05:33 PM

Great. Thx a lot. This is really helpful. I can estimate traffic so it should be quite easy to find yout what I need.
Thx again.

06-25-2009, 07:32 AM	#1
Leree Member \|Forum Newbie\| Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2	Hosting vs. traffic Hi there everyone, As I read most of posts on this forum (as well as other forum) I hear a lot about hosting problems, server capacity, server performance etc, but no one seems to be able to tell what kind of traffic requires which kind of hosting plan. I am planning to start ClipShare site but users will be able only to view clips. I will be responsible for uploading. Movies from this site will be also embedded to my other web sites with reasonably big traffic. So I was wondering: since user traffic will only download movie streams, the most important hosting parameter is transfer limitation. Only me and 3-4 other people will be uploading movies, and there might me like 30-40 movies a month. This way I believe server performance is not so crucial for site performance. Am I right? Is there something wrong with my concept? Could you help me out to figure out how to pick my hosting plan? I would rather start low cost – preferably shared hosting for first few months. Thanks for your attention and hope to get some advice.

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06-25-2009, 11:19 AM	#2
aspireseries Member \|Forum Newbie\| Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 36	Ok, let's say that only 30-40 movies/month will be uploaded - no problem on that - let's say 10mbps bandwith will be enough... but what if those 30 movies you have just uploaded gets visited each 1000 / day... So you've got something like 30.000 views/day or more? I think that those 10mbps of bandwith won't be enough if more than 20-30 users/seconds will see a video at the same time... For example let's say you have a video with a stream of 500kbps - if 20 users want to see that video at the same time this will mean that the server should be able to use a bandwith of 500kbps x 20 = 10mbps. What if another 5 visitors want to see another movie at the same time beside those 20 first? You don't have enough bandwith... So you should be looking for 100mbps bandwith... and another term you should look for is the total traffic - for example on 30.000 views of a video with an estimatately 500kbps bitrate / day this would mean 30.000 x 500kbps = 15.000 mbps = 1875 MB ~= 2GB /day - so on a month 2gb x 30 ~= 60GB / month traffic would be enough for you. It all depends on how much you estimate your videos will be watched...

06-25-2009, 05:33 PM	#3
Leree Member \|Forum Newbie\| Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2	Great. Thx a lot. This is really helpful. I can estimate traffic so it should be quite easy to find yout what I need. Thx again.

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