Bandwidth quota

[monkey]

Hi,

I have a simple webpage monkeysaudio.com that offers a 1MB download. The download gets about 4000 downloads a day.

I currently have the webpage on BlueHost and the download on Amazon S3.

Would moving the download to BlueHost (100-200GB/month of static file serving) be welcome?

I spoke with BlueHost over chat and they wouldn't give me a concrete answer. They said:

"It doesn't appear that it would cause a problem."

but also

"if there are a lot of them at the same time that could be a problem" and "unfortunately when an account is causing performance problems for the whole server it will be deactivated."

I would like a concrete answer. Is 100-200GB/month of static file serving welcome on my account or will it get me deactivated?

Thanks.

[Bob Barr]

At 200 GB per month, you'd only be using 6-7 GB per day of bandwidth per day. That, in and of, itself shouldn't be any problem at all.

The real issue may result from uneven usage of bandwidth which could "hog" your server's I/O capacity and affect other sites on it.

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While I can't be sure, I'd think that you should be able to code/configure your site so as to prevent (or perhaps throttle) concurrent downloads and avoid this problem. Someone more familiar with this issue may be along to provide more information on it shortly.
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