Tube site owners - Average usage?

[gaydemon]

I'm just curious, whats the average bandwidth or download usage per user on your Tube sites? 20, 40, 80, 150 meg??

[Squirt]

I'm curious to know as well. We have so many tube site owners here that could give valuable input.

[basschick]

the only tube owners i know run straight tube sites, and they don't give a lot of specifics. the most useful thing i've heard is the average surfer watches 10 videos per day - if correct, you can figure from there. some say to start with 10 Mbps but if you get traffic to expect it to grow from there. i've heard 100 Mbps from a couple, but those guys have a lot of traffic. the rest say "not that much" when i asked, but didn't give a number.

[abostonboy]

150 meg is on the low end.

[100boys]

This is what my host tech said on another board:

"100k/day of "good" quality traffic (he's referring to surfers) with normal tube hosting will probably rock you for 600(mbit)-1.2Gbps depending on length and quality of clips. And this is with RTMP, using lighttpd/whatever double the numbers."

On my current hosting plan that would mean about 7k$/month for hosting a tube which has only 100k uniques per day.

[abostonboy]

I didn't realize that using streaming had that much in savings. lighttpd is what Youtube uses.

[100boys]

That's what he says at least and usually he knows pretty well what he's talking about :)

[abostonboy]

Now that i think about it, I see how it's possible. I guess if a surfer is on a fast connection, goes to a flash video, watches 30 seconds of a 2 minute movie, then hits the back button, he has probably downloaded the whole movie without even watching 1/4 of the movie. It makes sense.