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How much bandwidth?

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nater

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I just started a forum for my medical school class, seeing as I was getting sick of the listserv sending me about 30 emails a day, many of them not important.

When all is said and done, I will have, at most, 300 users that will be fairly compulsive about checking the forum, and attachments are allowed in the study tips section of the forum.

How much bandwidth will I end up using? 10GB? 20GB? more?

Mind you, I know that this is hard to call, but a rough estimate is all I really need..
 
A basic forum is not going to consume excessive bandwidth, provided its not a spam magnet. The question's answer lies in what sort of attachments will be used, and with what frequency they will be used. Also, do you have a solution for image hosting (or did you cover it under attachments).

With a reasonable amount of attachments of basic images/word/PDF, you'd be hard pressed to exceed 15GB.
 
M11 said:
A basic forum is not going to consume excessive bandwidth, provided its not a spam magnet. The question's answer lies in what sort of attachments will be used, and with what frequency they will be used. Also, do you have a solution for image hosting (or did you cover it under attachments).

With a reasonable amount of attachments of basic images/word/PDF, you'd be hard pressed to exceed 15GB.
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I doubt it will become a spam magnet as it is just for medical student use where I go to school. Not really high profile like hardforum or anything like that. Most of the attachements will be PDFs, excel, word, etc.

Right now I have 50GB a month, so I feel like I should be ok, I just dont want to get screwed on the back end of the deal...
 
nater said:
I doubt it will become a spam magnet as it is just for medical student use where I go to school. Not really high profile like hardforum or anything like that. Most of the attachements will be PDFs, excel, word, etc.

Right now I have 50GB a month, so I feel like I should be ok, I just dont want to get screwed on the back end of the deal...
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In that case, you're fine. Feel free to allow users to generously upload images and attachments if that 50GB is all for forum use, and its going to be low-traffic and high-content per post.
 
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