do you know what else is a joke? I see alot of hosting providers that offer only 200 MB bandwidth per month. Is that not the most ridiculous thing.
Oh yes, and does anyone here know if "Web position gold" for search engine positioning is any good, or is that a load of croak as well?
What would you say is the average amount bandwidth used by most websites? Cause i host my site at ** mentioned elsewhere 4 times ** and they allow 15 GB bandwidth.
But someone emailed me yesterday saying that his site uses 20 GB per month. Is that really common to use that much bandwidth? Becuase a 15 GB bandwidth is a massive amount.


[Edited by akashik on 04-12-2001 at 07:13 PM]

I remember a magazine offered a prize for any company that could give their site a top 5 position a while back. They contacted most of the more well known 'postion specialists'. At the time the mag went to press no company had taken the challenge, and cited many excuses for not being able to do it...

As for the other part, 15 gig is big. Some sites will go over that though. Major forums, download sites, streaming media etc will blow out your data transfer. In most cases though 2 gig will probably be more than enough (possibly less).

Greg Moore

what the hell is wrong with you people, seriously? why on earth did you erase where i wrote the company URL that hosts my site?
i can mention where i host my site at as many times as i want. That`s just incredible. How ridiculous is that. You know what, you mention Ocean hosting quite alot on this board, "that annoys people". If i want to mention the fact that i host my site at unitedwebhosting.com as many times as i want, i can. Whoever erased the url i wrote is highly un-intelligent. Get with it. By the way, it`s quite pathetic that you have to advertise your site "ocean hosting" in this forum.

Sir,

Though I was not the one who edited your message, I have every confidence the moderator who did had good reasons for feeling it was necessary to make the change.

As to advertising, no one is permited to openly advertise their own services in these forums. A member may list his/her services in their signature line (with in reason) but no one can openly self-promote.

Good day.

never mind, for some reason i thought it was you who "edited" my URL. And i have`nt in any way advertised or promoted anyone`s hosting services. I simply mentioned that i like the hosting provider i`m using now because i`m quite proud that i have finally found a good host for my sites. I had tried several hosting providers before and they were`nt any good till i found the one i`m using now.
And of course it would`nt be good for webhost companies to advertise here. That`s not not forums are for. But any idiot with half a brain that works would have been able to clearly see that i wasn`t advertising any hosting services for some company.

frosty,

It's all about balance. I mentioned elsewhere I was happy you'd found a great hosting company, and I really am. A quick scan of the boards will prove that to anyone reading through. The boards should have a non-bias feel to them though, especially due to the currently small number of posts here. I'm not in the habit of editing posts just for the sake of doing it, and there was no direct intent involved.

As for having half a brain, some people may consider you are being generous

Greg Moore

Then I was talking about half of the 1% percent of the brain which was used.
I really don`t care if my post was "edited", i was just curious cause it seemed a little silly. Oh well.....

In my opinion, I think the only thing that is unlimited is taxes. You can't offer unlimited, because someone has to pay for it, nothing is free in this world, someone has to pay for everything.

Curtis

if a host allows 4 gigs of bandwidth (100 MB disk space), does that really mean that you can get 4 million hits on your site? Because addr.com says you can get that many hits with that hosting plan. But then i saw another host that had the exact same plan but they said you could only get about 200,000 hits. (So which one`s correct?).
By the way, if anyone cares, i`ve finally found an excellent hosting provider. They have very good prices and the uptime is darned good. I host my site at........i`m-not-allowed-to-tell.com

It depends. They are probably basing that on a one page hit, and a small page in fact. If you have 4 gigs, then you have 4000MB of transfer to use. Lets say that all your visitors hit your homepage, and that is all and your hompeage is 50K in size. Then you could get about 80,000 hits from it.

HTH

Curtis is right on the money. The bigger your page's download the less 'hits' you can cram into your data transfer. Naturally it goes without saying the more images you use, and the size of those images, will alter this a great deal. Re-using images as often as possible will get you around this a bit as most browsers will cache an image and just reuse it instead of downloading it again. The html itself can have an effect too. If you use a lot of tables in your pages they'll bloat your html a great deal (Frontpage is legendary for this).

Most hosts will base their figures on a 10k page. Once the initial site is loaded, deeper pages are usually quite small, and contain mostly text, so it evens out to about that.

Greg Moore