Member's areas: How much bandwidth do you burn through

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  • Mako
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2004
    • 1986
    #1

    Member's areas: How much bandwidth do you burn through

    Just how much of a load on a movie site is a well populated member's area?

    Figure movies are cut into slices of 30 - 50MB each, total of around 600 files that size, membership of around 1,500. Buddy of mine is negotiating with someone that has a paysite with those specs for sale, but the bandwidth usage per month that he's quoting sounds light, interested in hearing what the GFY peeps think...
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    • Project-Shadow
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2003
      • 7340
      #2
      Although it obviously isnt this simple, you could make a formula.

      3 tiers of users:

      1 - Joe Bloggs, found the site was looking for a specific video. Signed up downloaded, and hasn't use his password since.
      2 - Timmy Bloggs, found the site enjoyed 20-30 videos.
      3 - Asshole McGee, signed up downloaded everything on the site and fucked off.

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      Assuming 10% of your users are tier 1.
      70% are tier 2
      20% tier 3

      [50 x (1% of 600) x (10% of 1500) = tier 1 b/w]
      [50 x (10% of 600) x (70% of 1500) = tier 2 b/w]
      etc etc

      However this is an EXTREMLY rough guideline, every site varies obviously, but it could give you a basic building block to make your assumptions on. I'd say assuming you had 30gb of content and every member downloaded everything you'd need a 100mbit, but a 10-20mbit server would probably cover that members area.

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