The rate (measured in bytes) at which data passes between points on a digital network.
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Podcast bandwidth
The situation
Hi folks, I host a medium sized non-commercial audio-only podcast available through the standard ways (website streaming, itunes, stitcher, zune, etc). All these ways of listening are ...
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Web server specifications for online Text-based web game
I am developing an online text-based game similar to Mafia wars. Of course I won't expect 20 million players on my site, but I want to choose a web server that is suitable for me.
I am a complete ...
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Is it possible for CloudFlare to cause an increase in bandwidth usage?
We started using CloudFlare at the end of May 2011 and I was just looking at the numbers and saw our usage of bandwidth went from 2-3k GB per month to 18k+ GB of use per month. Also our Unique vistors ...
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How much bandwidth do I need for a site with highly variable traffic? [closed]
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How much bandwidth do I need? Please help?
I'm an inexperienced webmaster trying to estimate hosting requirements for a site. I need to work out a dollar amount for a ...
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How much bandwidth do I need? Please help? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm an inexperienced webmaster trying to estimate hosting requirements for a site. I need to work out a dollar amount ...
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Understanding data transfer/file requests - what constitutes my bandwidth usage?
I'm trying to understand how bandwidth works in relation to file requests, so that I can get a good feel of what, say, 100GB of monthly bandwidth would allow.
Let's say I have a php file with the ...
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What is the best way to calculate bandwidth needed for my website?
What is the best way to accurately calculate bandwidth needed for my site?
I have come across several formulas and wondering what one is the most accurate?
Here are a couple examples:
(Average ...
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Hotlinking to reduce bandwidth usage?
I manage two websites for a client, each hosted with a different company. One site is an eCommerce site and the other is a blog for the eCommerce site.
The eCommerce site is reaching its bandwidth ...
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How can i monitor my VPS real bandwidth usage?
I have a VPS that suspended for use out of bandwidth limitation. In DirectAdmin report I have no change in the use of bandwidth and all things are normal (bandwidth usage is less than 4 GB and my ...
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Are we being attacked?
We serve a 13mb download which is reasonably popular, around 150-300 downloads a day.
Today we have had 1,200 downloads and as I browse the logs I find they all originate from the same IP address. ...
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external website storage
One of my clients is a business consultant, and stores powerpoint presentations on her website for conference attendees to download after a conference.
There are 91 files totalling 111MB.
I want to ...
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What would be causing so much bandwidth usage if there are no large files?
I'm pretty new to web design/coding so I'm sorry if this question has an obvious answer I've overlooked. I'm currently working on a website for a small company (from scratch/no CMS) and am basing it ...
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Excess bandwidth usage,how do I overcome this?
I rceived a higher than normal monthly bill from my web hosting company. They have told me
that I have exceeded my monthly minimum for bandwidth usage and adviced me to reduce the file size of my ...
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Server 10Mbit bandwidth with a potential 100Mbit outburst
I'm planning to deploy 3 private servers on a web farm. I've got a quote for a hosting package from my ISP, yet it says the server will have 10Mbit bandwidth with a potential 100bitB burst.
What does ...
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How do I measure my site's bandwidth?
A newbie question, but I have a PHP site running on dedicated Centos server with plesk control panel and wonder how much bandwidth is being consumed. Is there a tool or code that measures bandwidth ...
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My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive
I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of ...
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Webhosting for a TV channel with streaming video
I'm making a website for a web based TV channel, so I'm assuming it will be heavy on bandwidth usage, but I'm no good at calculating bandwidth.
Couple of questions:
Assuming the site streams HD ...
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How to calculate the actual count of downloads through bandwidth
I have a freeware hosted on my website, and use webalizer to track the traffic. I can get the data of my installation file from webalizer in section "Top 10 of 583 Total URLs By KBytes" (till Jan. ...
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How to Estimate Needed Bandwidth for New Web Application?
I am working on a brand new SaaS web application and need to estimate the initial bandwidth usage. Since the site doesn't exist yet, and since this is my first endeavor of this sort, I'm not really ...
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Cost effective way to provide static media content
I'd like to be able to deliver around 50MB of static content, either in about 30 individual files up to 10MB or grouped into 3 compressed files, around 5k to 20k times a day. Ideally I'd like to put ...
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How to make money with video site?
What I really mean is i don't get how these smaller but still popular video/tube sites make money. They host their own videos not embedded ones. How do they afford the bandwidth? if bandwidth is 0.18 ...
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What's the minimum necessary bandwidth for a fast website?
What's the minimum amount of bandwith for a website ?
Let's say I have a hosting service with 125GB traffic, how many website I can store before they start to slow down ?
Also, what does "1000 Mbit ...
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Bandwidth heavy site… use co-location?
I'm working on a web site that is likely to be very bandwidth-heavy. A major feature of the site when in active use can pull up to 1Mbps for a single session. Luckily, once users get over the new ...
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Is there a tool to compare space used by each file of a web page?
Is there a tool that can load a web page and compare the space used (and thus load time) by each file? For example:
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Effective methods of reducing bandwidth (and thus page load times)?
What are the most effective methods when it comes to reducing the amount of bandwidth a website needs to render a page?
Aggressive caching? Minifying JS/CSS? Gzip? CMS? Sprites?
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CSS reduction for faster loading / less bandwidth
Is compacting CSS / Removing unused rules for a specific page worthwhile in terms of bandwidth or can we rely on caching (headers/last-modified) to remove this overhead in the wild?
Cheers
Also, ...
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What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video?
What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start?
Edit: Let's assume it is not real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.
