I’ve been thinking about the bandwidth usage of my other blog and I realized that in the near future, it’s bandwidth usage will become higher so I tried to look at the other plans that my current webhost, HostGator. I discovered that the 3rd plan, Swamp, offers unlimited bandwidth and I’m wondering. Is that really feasible?
I’m just asking this question because bandwidth, just like disk space, memory usage, coal, and gasoline (more examples) are exhaustible resources. They require servers and connections in order to run. I’m not really familiar with the technicalities on how they provide bandwidth but as far as I can understand, I don’t think it’s an unlimited resource.
Well, not all websites or blogs are bandwidth extensive so they won’t use that much bandwidth anyway. So are they hoping that those blogs won’t exhaust their resources?
As of now, my bandwidth usage is about 2-3 gb per day and I’m assuming that it will grow higher due to my other blog. Perhaps if I reach 50% of my bandwidth capacity, it’s time to talk to HostGator support to ask more about their unlimited bandwidth plans.
How about your webhost? Do they offer unlimited bandwidth too? I heard that dreamhost increases your space and bandwidth every week?
In a million years I will never underatand how you guys are using that much bandwidth. I have VERY intense image based blog traffic every day and I have never come closer than 15 gigs a month.
I see you have a very good Alexa rating, if it’s not too personal can I ask how many thousands of unique visitors do you get in a day?
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My fear for many of my sites and blogs is not the bandwidth usage but some of my hosts have a cpu limit and most web 2.0 software/programs dont do to well on many hosts in that environment. All those database hits. Or least that is my experience so i moved to a VPS. Cost a little more, have to run the server myself but I have “freedom”.
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@Dave – Hi Dave, let me explain how I manage to get that high bandwidth. I also have another blog, it’s a manga blog. Every chapter is about 2-3mb where people can read online. I get about 600-1000 visitors daily there the last time I checked and each person doesn’t only read one chapter when reading a story right? That would explain my bandwidth usage. ^_^
@Porch Lifts – Well, they should be better off selling limited bandwidth than offering unlimited bandwidth. They should that if they do something wrong, people will start spreading it to other people and ruin their image and brand.
@BlogMeTHeMoney – Wow! You must have a pretty heavy trafficked blog that you had to move into VPS. I’m currently using wordpress in all my blogs so I’m not sure how heavy it is in terms of database usage and cpu usage. Any ideas?
Well, THAT at least makes sense, because that kind of usage with a regular site is just not feasible.
The only real issue that most people face is traffic spikes. If you get shared hosting (like 90% of us do) you might only use a teeny tiny amount of your bandwidth, but get 1000 or 2000 people in a short amount of time and you get the automatic suspension they never tell you about.
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I think its a hype up. Hosting services even Hostgator must have a unwritten policy to reduce or cut the bandwidth after you reach some certain limit.