Forum Bandwidth

gooooogle · Post #1 (**permalink**) 11-14-2003, 04:45 PM

Just wondering if anyone could tell me how much bandwidth a forum usually uses? Do different hosting packages have big differences in bandwidth usage?

GordyMac · Post #2 (**permalink**) 11-14-2003, 09:40 PM

Would depend on a lot of different things.. ammount of posts, members, images, how complex the layout of the forum was.. etc..

BlackStorm · Post #3 (**permalink**) 11-15-2003, 10:02 AM

Its far too hard to say how much a forum would use, its just like a normal site, if you had a site with just text and few hits, it would use a small amount of bandwidth.
With a forum, if you have a skin with few images and not many hits, the bandwidth usage is going to be low again.

GordyMac · Post #4 (**permalink**) 11-15-2003, 10:39 AM

Yes, a forum is 100% exactly like a website, just usually alot more interactive for the viewer where they can actually put in some input instead of just reading what has already been put there.