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TGFB (Thank God For Bandwidth)

05/28/04 @ 3:19 pm · By Steve Hoffman · Comments (0) · Leave one
    I was looking at the statistics for the various sites I'm running and all I can say is DAMN!  I realize that the webshots is the most intensive of them all considering that all the pictures are pretty much untouched as far as size and what not.  Webshots alone has transferred over 500MB (note the capital B) of data and that ignores the bandwidth used to upload the files.  This site is pushing about 100MB/month, while that's not nearly as impressive, it's still not to shabby!  I'm actually quite surprised that I haven't got a letter from BellSouth yet complaining about all my usage.  When you factor in mail and general surfing, downloading the latest Linux ISO's and random other crap, I figure I'm up there in the 5-10GB of traffic per month.  To put the total traffic in perspective, my company runs a web based application and that application used roughly 15GB worth of bandwidth last month, that's with over 300 customers!  Now the hosting servers on the other hand...their my boxes...the ones that run ~90 websites, each with an average of 5 email accounts, DNS and a few other services...They are well over 100GB/month of transfers. But the whole point was...for a single user I'm doing some bandwidth damage! 

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