Bandwidth?

[goldenthunder]

Hi. I have a new site, gtlayouts.com that uses flash and php to help users make custom myspace layouts. Anyways, the flash munches up a bunch of bandwidth, I probably won't, but if ever I used all my bandwidth up, what would happen?

Would my site shut down, or what. And if I ever did, where is a good place to store the flash files externally that would let me access them from my webpage hosted here?

Thanks in advance!!!

~nico

[RDM]

Your site will shut down for that month. But I woudn't worry about it. You're never going to exceed your bandwidth limits. 2TB is A LOT of bandwidth.

That's 66GB per day, 2 GB per hour, 33MB per minute. If your flash files were about 1MB each, you still could have 33 people downloading that file at the same time for every minute of the day, and every day of the month.

It's HIGHLY unlikely that you will ever reach that point. You would probably hit the CPU limit first.

[goldenthunder]

HAHA I feel like a total noob. Wow I'm terrible at math lol I think I was thinking 20 gigs not 2000 gigs lol. o well. I didnt think I would reach that anyways, still curious to what would happen - the site would shut down. cool. Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

[serversn]

Can the hosting actually support 33MB/s transfer strain? Sounds like a gimick to me if each account on allows 2Mbit/s upload....RDM, could you please clarify this?

[RDM]

I never said anything about 33MB per second. Also a Megabit differs from a Megabyte, don't get those mixed up. I am not talking about transfer speed I was talking about transfer amount.

Every account is entitled to use their share of bandwidth at anytime they'd like. Please make sure that you get your facts right before you start saying things are gimmicks

[serversn]

I apologize for the 33 MByte/s error... I'm glad to be wrong ! Based on what you say, it seems possible. However, my only gripe is that there's a chance 33 broadband users might come on at the same time and perhaps suck up all the bandwidth if they're downloading which means hundreds of others might not get access to the site... I hope there's some kinda of bandwidth management so certain users don't suck the server dry... is there such?

[RDM]

Those 33 users would be to be downloading that 1MB file for each minute of the day, they'd have to stay on your site for a constant 1440 minutes, which is never going to happen.

[jouteyan]

i have ask support for speed connection for every account it's arround 2Mb/S, with this if the bandwith is used 24h/24h we can have more than 3 téra a month :) it's for that it's limited to 3000 gigs / mo ...

so my question is if we can limit a bandwith for every subdomain??... i now that we can limit space when we install an ftp account... but for traffic it's possible to do it???

[charlesgan]

i have ask support for speed connection for every account it's arround 2Mb/S, with this if the bandwith is used 24h/24h we can have more than 3 téra a month :) it's for that it's limited to 3000 gigs / mo ...

so my question is if we can limit a bandwith for every subdomain??... i now that we can limit space when we install an ftp account... but for traffic it's possible to do it???

basically you can not do that.
as i know, network bandwidth splitting & agregate,.. require special hardware. and its super costly

[sjlplat]

Can the hosting actually support 33MB/s transfer strain? Sounds like a gimick to me if each account on allows 2Mbit/s upload....RDM, could you please clarify this?

The servers are on an OC-48 (2.5GBps) backbone. 2.5GBps = 2500 bits/s = 312.5 bytes/s maximum bandwidth for all servers total.