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How did I Go Over My Data Transfer?

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Macs R Us

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My website (Macs R Us Computers) is nearing going over this months "Banwith/Data Transfer", How could this be I have 10mb's... Now I know I get a lot of page veiws from AD's and sutuff but how could this be?

Any Ideas?..
 
10mbs is your speed of your connection, that has nothing to do with your data transfer and bandwith. They are two seperate things. You need to look at your bandwitdh for the month and that will tell your where you stand. For example, You may have 50 gigs of bandwidth. That means people can download or view 50 gigs of files from your site. If you have 50 videos that are 1 gig each, that video can be downloaded or watched 50 times. Thats just a example obviously.
 
I was talking about MEG's Not Megs Per sec... I have 10 Megs of Data Transfer... I don't have music, at the most many pictures... Any more ideas?

ChicoWeb said:
10mbs is your speed of your connection, that has nothing to do with your data transfer and bandwith. They are two seperate things. You need to look at your bandwitdh for the month and that will tell your where you stand. For example, You may have 50 gigs of bandwidth. That means people can download or view 50 gigs of files from your site. If you have 50 videos that are 1 gig each, that video can be downloaded or watched 50 times. Thats just a example obviously.
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Macs R Us said:
I was talking about MEG's Not Megs Per sec... I have 10 Megs of Data Transfer... I don't have music, at the most many pictures... Any more ideas?
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I really don't think you have 50 megs...cause if you do then i can click your site about 100 times and get you to go over..
 
Macs R Us said:
I was talking about MEG's Not Megs Per sec... I have 10 Megs of Data Transfer... I don't have music, at the most many pictures... Any more ideas?
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What's the total size of your entire web site? I'm wondering if search engines, like Google, are repeatedly downloading your entire site for caching. Or, if your site is 10MB, one simple person browsing your entire site could cause this. One thing to note is to make sure that actually use physically smaller images for thumbnails. Do not use HTML's width and height directives to resize a large photo. If you use the directives to make a thumbnail, the user is actually downloading the entire image. For example, let's say you have a 1MB 1024x1024 image. Using HTML's image directives, users are downloading a 1MB 1024x1024 image, even though you may have a thumbnail of 100x100.
 
Macs R Us said:
I was talking about MEG's Not Megs Per sec... I have 10 Megs of Data Transfer... I don't have music, at the most many pictures... Any more ideas?
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Before you edited your post it said Mbs, which is 10 Mega Bit (not mega bytes), meaning it is the speed of your server and the connections it can handle. 10 Megs is ridicoulous for bandwidth, you probably have 10 Gigabytes. Anyways, someone is probably hot linking your images or you have more visitors then you think. I have sites that willl use 10 megabytes bandwidth in about an hour.
 
Well... I think its 10mb... I know I get about 300-800 page veiws a day, so since its not over 10, I'm not sure... My site has a lot of pics and words, so I don't know... It might be 100 megs I'm not sure...
 
Macs R Us said:
I was talking about MEG's Not Megs Per sec... I have 10 Megs of Data Transfer... I don't have music, at the most many pictures... Any more ideas?
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10 megs of data transfer... of course your going over that, a few pictures by a few people a day would saturate that easily... my website would probibly kill that amount in a single day.

You also say it may be 100... well it helps first to know exactly how much it is, if you expect good help... but even 100 megs, with your 300-800 page views a day (not really sure why its such a broad range)... would saturate that in a week maybe if there arent many images.
 
Mistake its acutly 10,000 megs... I did not think so much... Well it seems Iv used about 8.9,000 Megs and I'm nearing the limit... I too messed up its actully about 700-850 Page veiws per day... Some times its hard to understand what they are talking about and I am a nerd I wonder how people can actuly do it who know cr@p about computers... Seems odd... Well how do I get more?
 
Macs R Us said:
Mistake its acutly 10,000 megs... I did not think so much... Well it seems Iv used about 8.9,000 Megs and I'm nearing the limit... I too messed up its actully about 700-850 Page veiws per day... Some times its hard to understand what they are talking about and I am a nerd I wonder how people can actuly do it who know cr@p about computers... Seems odd... Well how do I get more?
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Well, to answer the last part of your question, have you tried talking to your hosting service to get a plan w/more bandwidth?

I think that's pretty much your only option, if you want to keep things the way they are now?
 
dotnina said:
Well, to answer the last part of your question, have you tried talking to your hosting service to get a plan w/more bandwidth?

I think that's pretty much your only option, if you want to keep things the way they are now?
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Thanks sounds good to me... How would I go about doing that?...
 
Macs R Us said:
Thanks sounds good to me... How would I go about doing that?...
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Maybe you could try calling the customer service hotline or emailing them about your request. Which service provider are you using?
 
dotnina said:
Well, to answer the last part of your question, have you tried talking to your hosting service to get a plan w/more bandwidth?
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Not more bandwidth, but more traffic. Bandwidth is speed, and that's not what the problem is.

Bandwidth: 'The amount of data that can be transferred through a connection in a given time period. In such cases, bandwidth is usually measured in bits or bytes per second.'
 
Nermal said:
Not more bandwidth, but more traffic. Bandwidth is speed, and that's not what the problem is.

Bandwidth: 'The amount of data that can be transferred through a connection in a given time period. In such cases, bandwidth is usually measured in bits or bytes per second.'
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Well... Now the Mac nerd is confused I can make a site in HTML, Java, etc... But some things I just never learned 🙄 😎 ... Well then what should I do?...
 
Nermal said:
Not more bandwidth, but more traffic. Bandwidth is speed, and that's not what the problem is.

Bandwidth: 'The amount of data that can be transferred through a connection in a given time period. In such cases, bandwidth is usually measured in bits or bytes per second.'
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I guess its a terminology error that many people commit then. A number of hosting companies sometimes refer data transfer as bandwidth.
 
angelneo said:
I guess its a terminology error that many people commit then. A number of hosting companies sometimes refer data transfer as bandwidth.
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I have to agree with Nermal on this.

Bandwidth is the speed of your connection.
Data transferred is the amount you transfer over that specific connection.

If a hosting company is mixing terminology, then they shouldn't be in the hosting business.

At any rate, did you check your code to make sure you aren't resizing huge images to make a thumbnail?

If your images/data is as small as it can possibly be, talk to your hosting provider and state that it appears you are going to exceed your allowable data transfer limit, and you may need to move to a higher plan.
 
Optimize those images!!! Your homepage is almost 700KB!!!

This will effectively accomplish two things:

1. Consume your download allotment quickly, which you have already discovered.
2. Tick people off with dialup connections - would take roughly 2 min for your homepage to completely load. 😱
 
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