Some people concerned about their monthly data transfer bandwidth. You don’t have to worry if your blog doesn’t reach thousands of page visit per day until it start growing and get increasing traffics consistently. To prevent from downtime or your web site exceed the limit, here is some simple calculation you can use to calculate your bandwidth usage.
1 character is a byte
1,000 bytes is a kilobyte (K)
1,000K is a megabyte (MB)
1,000MB is a gigabyte (GB)
Formula: Page weight x Visitor
Check your page weight
Example http://twthosting.com
Page weight: 4000 bytes = 4 K
Bandwidth per visitor = 4 K x 1 = 4 K
Bandwidth for 100 visitor/day = 4 K x 100 = 4000 K = 4 MB
Bandwidth per month = 4 MB x 30 days = 120 MB = 0.12 GB
Approximately we used around 0.12 GB bandwidth per month (for our front page only). Then times with your total post page, do the same calculation on that page. You can track your visitor from Google Analytics, Site meter, or Statcounter to get specific numbers of your page per visit. So if you got any other few web site, sum up everything and you’ll get estimate bandwidth usage for your web hosting.
So, how come your account got suspended from ‘UNLIMITED’ hosting plan? Here is the trick, they just much way smarter in calculation. You can use how much bandwidth as you want, how many web site you want to put it inside (as long as it is ‘UNLIMITED’) but there’s limitation for your file count. It’s NOT UNLIMITED!
Once your file count reach 50K (usually they give you 50K files limit per hosting), it’s depend on your web hosting to take an action. Some might suspend your hosting until you upgrade to dedicated hosting, stop offering you with daily backups or start charging per megabyte that over your limit. It’s already written on terms ad conditions. So for those who plan to dump everything on your web hosting, better frequently check your file count.
Here is default file size for top CMS for blog and web site.
WordPress: 806 files
Joomla: 4640 files
Drupal: 329 files
So to reduce file count on your web hosting, better do some ‘Hosting Keeping’ once a month. Delete all unnecessary images, unused themes or templates, and remove all unpublished website to help you minimize your hosting usage.
Another important things is, where did you host also can be a matter. Try to avoid hosting the mandatorily suspend your account when its come to limit. Try to look at hosting that negotiable. So better be careful with hosting plan you choose, if you really serious into blogging scene, try to get a proper plan of your visitors, files, and well manage it.
Our suggestion for serious future blogger, we recommend you with Hostgator seem you can still excess your files even you already reach the limit. But they’ll stop daily backup process for files over the limit. So, what you need to do is do your own backup, done. But their action better than some company where automatically suspend your access to your file system.