question about image hosting and bandwith

[izlik]

Hello, i got a question regarding my image hosting site.

im fairly new to this and need a little advice. i just want to hear waht people think

1: what do you belive whould be a good hourly Bandwith usage of and image at max?
2: what do you belive whould be a good daily Bandwith usage of and image at max?

cause some images use up quite a bit and i just want to know what the public expect.

[felgall]

Keep the combined total of ALL files that make up a page under 80k maximum size and you should be okay. If you go over that then you will waste bandwidth as people start downloading your page and then give up because it takes too long to download.

[izlik]

why im asking is that after uploading my page is like imageshack, you will se a thumb with the uploaded image wich if about 67K in total, but you have link etc to the image, for thumb and many more like direct link to the image, and if the image is 2MB and someone use an direct link the bandwith speed's up quite fast, that's why i asked for a got hourly / daily :)

[tracknut]

You have a single image that's 2MB? That's absolutely enormous for an image - what is it, and are you sure that's necessary or useful?

Unfortunately I'm not understanding your question about bandwidth, so I'm not much help. But if you have lots of users looking to download this image, then yes you'll either want lots of bandwidth, or your users will not be happy at all.

Dave

[izlik]

what i meant was, let's take imageshack, they have a bandwith limit of 100MB per hour, what i wonder is, is that eouff, to much or to little for an image hosting serivice?

and the maxlimit of the image is what is 2MB, not the limit of what is "must" be :)

[tracknut]

Well then it certainly depends on how many customers you have, then :)

As a data point, I sell photos for a business, at www.pixf.com, and 100MB per hour would be huge overkill for me. I *wish* I had that many customers, but I don't. 10MB/hour would probably still be more than I'd ever use.

But then I have no images even close to 2MB, and I'm not doing "image hosting" for anyone other than myself.

Dave

[felgall]

Any image over 100k in size hasn't been properly optimized for the web. One that big should be able to fill a 2400x1600 window completely and still look acceptable. You only need to go bigger if you intend for the images to be printed and even then 250k should fill a whole printed page at an acceptable image quality.

[izlik]

most of the images uploaded on my page that is about 900-1.5Mbit is either 2400x1600 or bigger, havent seen smaller sized so big yet, however by saving bandwith i made th image thumbed after the user has uploaded the image and stayes thumbed uless he clicks the images or hes friend do etc.

IF i needed to go bigger later, can you recommend any got hosting provider for a didcated box with a 100mbps port or 10mbps with upgradeable fetures etc? =)

btw if anyonw wanna have a look at the page it's http://filefrog.net