Thread: 10 Mbps = x GB?
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Old 09-25-2009, 10:16 AM  
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Originally Posted by Phil21 View Post
No one operates at full capacity 24 hours a day, if you do, your website doesn't matter much as it will be unusable during peak hours.

Based on over a hundred gbps of aggregated adult traffic, you will see roughly 200GB per Mbit of "real world" usage. Depending on your traffic, this can go up or down - but usually it will stay within the 170GB - 220GB range.

So, 2000GB is a good rough estimate real-world, if your traffic patterns are "average" for the industry.

Hope the info helps!

-Phil
This is exactly near the range I was going to offer as well. "real word" usage will vary between that range by each specific website(s) hosted on the machine as traffic patterns for every website are different.
I have seen as low as 150GB per 1Mbps even.
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