Statistics for average web site

[IT_Architect]

Does anyone know where I can get information as to the average web site size, traffic, and load?

About 10 years ago I had a site at iPower. There were 765 other domains on that IP address. A friend of mine was on another that had 1009. The performance of both were good. Today's servers have far and away more power than that, but without some kind of rule of thumb, one doesn't have anything to use to calculate CPU to disk space requirements. I was hoping to find something like that at Netcraft, WebHostingTalk, or Google, but I haven't found anything.

Thanks!

 

[nobaloney]

I'd hazard a guess that there isn't a good answer, and depending on one would be dangerous.

Why do you ask? Because you want to know if you can put a thousand sites on your server? You probably can't, if for no other reason than that you can't afford to refund money to a thousand clients if your server goes down.

One reason you could get away with this ten years ago is that in those days sites were generally static sites, built mostly with just html; very few sites were using php, MySQL, etc.

One day a bunch of years we bought from a hoster ten relatively small, but somewhat active, WordPress sites. Ten. Only Ten. We built out an unused system; a P4 3.0Ghz processor, and 2GB of memory. For ten sites.

It crashed. We ended up losing all the clients except one. I learned my lesson.

While some of our older servers have approximately 300 sites hosted on them, most of the sites on those servers were written quite a while ago and are mostly static sites.

Newer servers definitely handle more, but we watch our server loads carefully, we don't oversell space, bandwidth, or resources, and we throw another server into the mix as necessary.

True that makes it hard to sell webhosting for a Euro, a Pound or a Dollar, but if you want to sell at those price points just go ahead and oversell; the other guys selling at those prices are already doing it.

Jeff

 

[wsd]

Statistics for average web site

Is so definitely something that belongs to the past, but you can then make a conservative estimate of what will be required of a single site, but can absolutely not done some calculations on how many site that may be on a server, since there is now These days are so big difference between what a site requires

 

[IT_Architect]

It's a virtual certainty that any large hoster has a methodology for estimating this, and use it every day. However, I would believe that most would not want to share it.

Thanks!

 

[Nexxterra.com]

easy enough

it is easy enough to get some idea, take 100 clients, add the disk space up and add the bandwidth and divide these 2 numbers by 100.... that will give you a rough idea of an average customer

 

[Rein]

I heard there was some online-service where you could anonimously find insiders from various spheres and industries and buy some research data or statistics from them. I guess you could try something like this. Not sure it's legal, though

 

[IT_Architect]

I heard there was some online-service where you could anonimously find insiders from various spheres and industries and buy some research data or statistics from them. I guess you could try something like this. Not sure it's legal, though

Thanks all. I'll beg from one of the huge hosters. A couple of them have helped me out on the past.