Bandwidth question from total noob

[mikeb]

So for kicks, and to supplement my earnings from more conservative (i.e. e-commerce) methods, I decided to put up a myspace layout site. Already getting good traffic due to my involvement on a different social network site but something has come to my attention VERY quickly now that I'm getting MS traffic:
BANDWIDTH.
I'm barely scratching the surface on myspace and bandwidth is huge (to what I'm accustomed to anyway). How do you guys deal with this? What is typical bandwidth usage/month on a mildly successful myspace site?

[digitome]

I do about 20-25 gigs of bandwith a day with around 4,500-8,000 uniques

[mikeb]

I do about 20-25 gigs of bandwith a day with around 4,500-8,000 uniques

Jeez...what does that cost you per month??? Are you hosting this on your own server? I have a webhost that is cheap but I cannot imagine what something like that would cost. I think their biggest package is 100 gigs a MONTH for like 30 bucks.
How do I expand my site and not go broke?

[miller2348]

Look for a solution to have your images offsite. I'm around 25 to 30k uniques daily and around 25GB a day.

[rob]

Dedicated servers will usually come with 1TB at a minimum, which works out to about 30GB/day. You can find them for between $100-600/month. I'd plan on doing that if you think your site will be successful/big, and you'll most likely need to think about clustering multiple servers depending on the traffic.

[mikeb]

Dedicated servers will usually come with 1TB at a minimum, which works out to about 30GB/day. You can find them for between $100-600/month. I'd plan on doing that if you think your site will be successful/big, and you'll most likely need to think about clustering multiple servers depending on the traffic.

You don't even want to know what I'm paying for 30 gig a MONTH. My background has been mostly on e-commerce sites I run, very low bw. I did this as a hands off thing just to generate some $$ each month. Being completely dufusized I bought the turnkey site, put it up, edited a few files and went with my current host on a low cost shared server. Within days I'd outgrown it and upgraded and will have to again. I am actually laying low because I'll exceed my MEAGER bandwidth allotment in no time.

[mikeb]

Look for a solution to have your images offsite. I'm around 25 to 30k uniques daily and around 25GB a day.


I have a photobucket pro account but the turnkey resource site i have is giving me fits to redirect things.