I, in my constant yak shaving, have mentally conjured a hypothetical formula to ballpark a possible bandwidth figure. This is so I can anticipate bandwidth costs. For me, it’s better to get some idea of what I may be up against than nothing at all. To use the formula, one needs to find the median…

Considering everything is compressed text why bother? It is all impossibly tiny compared to a 50kb or 500kb image file. Wrong question, ask how many image files you will be serving and how often…

[image] codinghorror: Wrong question, ask how many image files you will be serving and how often… If that’s the case then the only thing to do is figure out the average number of images per topic and add up.

It would only be relevant if you never served images. And it would be very small, you would have to be absolutely enormous to hit traffic limits on pure text alone.

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purldator (mountain) May 11, 2015, 1:13am 3

If that’s the case then the only thing to do is figure out the average number of images per topic and add up.

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