Bandwidth usage for moving away?

  • Unknown's avatar
    azarith · Member ·

    Every day my blog is growing more and more, it is already one of the most popular in the genre it is of. Now I’m wondering if there is anyway I can know how much bandwidth I used.

    I think it is time for me to start considering going to a host where I can actually modify the template, and have more control.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • tellyworth · Staff ·

    All you can do is estimate it.

    Use the Net tab in Firebug or Resources in the Safari Web Inspector to see the size of a typical page view. Your front page has about 150kb (or 0.15mb) of stuff right now. If many of your pages have images, choose one of them as your typical page.

    Multiply that by your average daily pageviews to guesstimate bandwidth per day. For 1,000 daily pageviews, say, that’d be 0.15 x 1000 = 150mb per day.

    That will be very, very rough, but will do as a starting point.

  • Unknown's avatar
    azarith · Member ·

    I just checked like five pages.

    .15 mb
    2.3 mb
    1.3 mb
    .25 mb
    .76 mb

    I think that is 4.76? (not good at math this late XD). divided by five should be like .953ish. So one megabyte.

    We’re averaging 3500 hits.

    So 3500 mb a day?

    So for a month 105000.

    105 gigs of data a month, does that seem right?

  • tellyworth · Staff ·

    Your math looks about right.

    There are many factors we’re ignoring by doing a crude estimate like this so the real figure could be quite different. But 100g/mo is probably a fair starting point.

  • Unknown's avatar
    azarith · Member ·

    My friend’s server should be able to handle me for quite a while. He’s had this server for years, and three thousand gigs of bandwidth. xD

    How can I prepare to move away from wordpress.com?

    Is moving back to wordpress.com easy if something ever happens?

  • Unknown's avatar
    azarith · Member ·

    Oh sorry for double post, I’ll of course be using wordpress.org’s software ^^

  • Unknown's avatar
    raincoaster · Member ·

    This will help:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

    And yes, moving back is easy. Easiest of all is if you just set your WP.com blog to Private so it doesn’t interfere with your new blog’s SEO. Then if you want to move back, you can just add the new posts. Deleting the WP.com blog is a bad idea, for just this reason; you may need it.

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