The Cost of Hosting a site?

[Blade Runner]

I've got a site that needs hosting on it's own and I have no idea what plan to go for.
I''ve been looking here http://www.canaca.com/ and it seems rather cheap but have no idea of how much diskspace or bandwidth i will need.

Any pointers

This site http://www.patrickdavie.com/xenu/ needs to be on a different server due the existing one being old. It will get bigger as more episodes will be aired as i'm screencapping the eps and adding them each week. along with reviews and other shite that goes on a site like that.

I basically need to know which sort of package i'm going to need to do what what the site requires to run. Even if there are 100 episodes @ 10mb per ep, it come out at 1gb of media.

I much appreciate any sort of advice you could give give

[spudthedestroyer]

You need at least some info on hits and statistics, your existing host really should have something about your domains somewhere. You need to know how many impressions you get and you will be able to get a rough bandwidth guide.

[Blade Runner]

I've got someone checking, i know there are 92,000 hits in 6months but i'm sure people link to the screencaps in the multimedia section

[spudthedestroyer]

well if you don't want people remote linking you can filter that out which will reduce bandwidth.

That's 15333 hits a month, lets say 16000.

lets say on average they grab 3 episodes each + navigation (~ 35mb), that would be 560,000mb a month 546.875GB... that's a lot of bandwidth

Means only the gold plan covers the costs. Depends how many episodes people get, and if they really use 35mb each. It depends on the peoples style of navigation. Dead-donkey has stats which reports bandwdith usage for each user/average

[Blade Runner]

it comes out at £10 per month so thats peanuts really between 4 of us. might just have to go for gold as they sometimes say. Thanks for the help spud

[spudthedestroyer]

well sometimes they allow free upgrades but pay for downgrades, so if that's the case you can go for a lower one and just upgrade. It really does all depend on how much bandwidth people use on their visits.

[Blade Runner]

the person whos server it is has no idea so we are going for the midrange for now after trimming the screenies down to 3mb each ep and upgrade if need be. All involved think its cheap anyways so we'll see how it goes and thanks very much for the advice spud, we might even stay the biggest TNS fansite on the web now

[maxpayne2409]

TNS?

[spudthedestroyer]

The New Series
Main discussion forum for the new Sci-Fi Channel series developed by Ronald D. Moore

[maxpayne2409]

ah rite