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I have built a website in php about News. The website will include ariticles, images, may be video, user comments etc. How to know what is my future requirement of bandwith for future. May be many user vists my website and bandwith increase...

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Best way to check that is first see how much content is on your site.Let's say you have 50MB of content. you need to see how much it is when it's compressed because most web browsers request compressed content. this affects how much data is downloaded every time they reload the page.so let's say the 50MB compressed is 45MB.. if you get let's say.. 500 visitors a month. times 45MB that's 22.5GB of bandwidth :(but you can't always be sure because once you load the page for the first time your computer stores some f not most of the content locally except for the active content.Cheers :)

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Most web hosts (including Xisto) let you pay for more bandwidth when you need it, and upgrade your hosting package if you outgrow your space or bandwidth allocation. The best approach is to buy a fairly low-bandwidth package, with enough disk space to hold all your content. Watch your site grow over the first few months and predict how your visitor numbers, and therefore bandwidth usage, will grow. When it looks like you're getting close to the limit, upgrade to the next package. That way you never need to pay for bandwidth you don't need.

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You can also check your cPanel to see how much space your using on your hosting account.

Take my screenshot for example:

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It really depends on how many users are actually visiting your site per day or per hour even. 10GB of bandwidth for a new customer of Xisto (if using MyCENTs for payments) I think should use the Logic Plan which is only like...2 dollars a month. Besides, it's good enough if you get an active site, you can just upgrade your package with ease, right? :)

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Hi, Just wanted to say that an on line article I read a couple of months ago had an interesting way of approximately calculating bandwidth, but I can't seem to find it right now. So... If anyone has it bookmarked and knows where I could find it, I'm sure it would help out a lot of people on these forums (including myself :D).Until then, I guess Google will be my friend. :)Thanks for the patience of reading my post :P

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