What are general bandwidth requirements for *Blank* Uniques Daily/Monthly? I'm talking about the bandwidth sizes (15000MB, 250000MB, etc) For example: 100-500 Uniques Daily 500-1000 Uniques Daily or if based on monthly than: 10,000 Monthly etc etc Thanks in advance!
It depends on what kind of content is on the page. There is no way of knowing what the bandwidth requirements would be. If you have a page of text, that is going to use a different amount of bandwidth than a page full of images. If your average page has say 100KB of data, counting images, text, everything else, just take that number and multiply it by 500, or 1000, or whatever number you're looking for.
This depends on how big your site is. If it is just a simple HTML/CSS template with some text and no images, you won't need much bandwidth.
Ah okay, so is there a way of know how big the site is? Or do I have to basically download all the files into a folder and see...
Yeah, just throw it into a folder and see. That will give you at least a general idea. If you have a single page html file, for example, with 3 images, you might get the following: index.html - 10k image1.jpg - 50k image2.jpg - 50k image3.jpg - 50k Total, that page with the images would be 160kb. Every time somebody accesses that page, it would use 160kb of bandwidth. Very simplistic method, but that would at least give you a general idea.
Well I checked the disk usage size for my site on my host and its currently around 143mb and growing on a daily basis. This is wordpress based, so it would include php files, html files, images, etc So how much bandwidth do you suggest?
It's still impossible to tell. 100,000 uniques - so what? How many pages will the average visitor view? How many times will each person visit each month? What is the average page size? How much of an average page size is likely to be cached by the browser so it isn't loaded with every page e.g images, CSS, Javascript? If you don't know the answers to the first three questions yourself then how can you expect anyone else to tell you? Use a browser that tells you how large each page is, use the site as you think a typical first-time user or returning visitor might use it, figure out how many pages are viewed on average, and then get out a calculator and do the sums. There's no formula, no two websites are the same, and there's no such thing as an "average" for a web site. In years gone by, when designers and developers worked hard to keep total page size below 35Kb (the days of 56K modems) your question might have been easier to answer. Now, there's no way to tell unless you do the work yourself.
There are text being loaded, images, js - javascript, you name it. Tons of stuff that will chew up bandwidth. The good thing is bandwidth has dropped considerably over the years and is almost nothing. Space, hard drive or storage seems to be more of an issue these days. Video uploads will take up a ton of space in a quick hurry. It doesn't seem to take much to transfer it (bandwidth) as it does to store it. So it really depends on the content. Text, images, even audio is nothing these days. Not a problem for bandwidth. Video begins to be an issue and consideration. Video can vary considerably in size from small to huge. If it is small no problem trasfering bandwidth. If it is large it won't take long to take a bite into your bandwidth useage. Sometimes you can get an unmetered port but they still have limitations they just are not monitored, but they can only move so much data depending on what you want to pay for.