ATTEN: GFY Hosting companies or Math wizards
 

I will display my ignorance of Hosting company math.

How do you compute bandwidth vs download for billing?

If for example I saturate a 10 Mbit circuit for a month how many gigbytes of download would be on my bill?

10mbps saturated x30 days = ~3300GB

Thank you. What is the magic formula? I had about 26 gigs so I am missing something.

On a normal adult site it usually is around 280GB for 1mbps

Technically its:

1mbps / 8 = 125k/sec or 8 seconds for 1MegaByte
That's 10,830MB in 1 day or 10.8GB * 30 Days = 324GB/month

So mathematically its 324GB and realistically its roughly 280GB

google 'bandwidth calculator'

the claculation over a mont is not as exact as you would assume. 1 megabit per second (Mbps) is roughly 320 GB. that means if you had the 1 mbit circuit filled every second it would be 320 GB total. obviously at 10 Mbps its 3300 roughly. bandwith is never even so 10 Mbps will be less than 3300 GB. You can buy from a hosting company by the GB or by Mbps. As an ISP/host we buy by the Mbps. Conversion to GB means we charge more because we have to pay 95th percentile. Thats a cluster fuck on its own. I prefer, however, to sell as I buy. If you ever need to know how to calculate overage, please come see me or hit me up and I will bore you to death with details. The end is that what you got billed sounds about right.