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The transfer bytes you can If you visit a low budget ($89 to $129) dedicated server facility, the most fascinating part of the trip may be that the disk and network lights on most of the machines never flash. There is a very simple reason for this. A gigabyte of bandwidth represents 100,000 typical 10k web pages or photos. It also represents about 50,000 e-mails sent or received. Assuming an average composite page of 20k bytes, and 60 seconds of digestion time, a gigabyte represents more than 800 viewer hours at a web site. For many companies engaged in e-commerce, a gigabyte of bandwidth also represents $500 to $5,000 of business generated - at the rate of 20 to 200 page hits per dollar of revenue. But at 10baseT speeds, one gigabyte represents only 13 minutes of transmission time. The simple fact of the matter is that unless you are doing an immense amount of sales volume, or conversely "giving away" something that a lot of people want, use of either our our remote archiving option or remote mirrored systems (which we highly recommend for system security reasons) will most likely burn more transfer bytes than any other process. All bets are off if you offer There is the case of the individual who was offering an e-book at very nominal cost (i.e. around a buck). He was getting no takers, and was burning less than 100mb a month in bandwidth from inquirers. Out of frustration, he decided to offer it as a free download. In the first day he got something like 10,000 download requests for the 25mb file (250gb) -- and was faced with a monthly bandwidth bill of $15,000. So you need to be careful to fully understand consequences before you make major changes.
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