Will Audio Require an Increased Hosting Bandwidth?
MP3 or SWF files sizes are around 1MB per minute of audio for resonable quality. Therefore if you have a 10 minutes of audio on your website and you get 10,000 visitors per month the bandwidth required for your audio would be 10MB x 10,000 = 100GB.
My hosting company charge $5.75 per month for 300GB per month bandwidth. Any additional bandwidth costs $1 per month per 4GB. If I start to exceed my bandwidth I will consider another hosting company (some can provide upto 1,000GB bandwidth per month for less then $8.00 per month) or a monthly audio service like Audio Generator.
Work out how much audio you are going to use and estimate your number of visitors and you can then work out your bandwidth requirements. Don't forget to allow for bandwidth for your web pages and images.
If necessary you can reduce the size of your audio files by decreasing the bit rate but this will reduce the quality of the sound.
My hosting company charge $5.75 per month for 300GB per month bandwidth. Any additional bandwidth costs $1 per month per 4GB. If I start to exceed my bandwidth I will consider another hosting company (some can provide upto 1,000GB bandwidth per month for less then $8.00 per month) or a monthly audio service like Audio Generator.
Work out how much audio you are going to use and estimate your number of visitors and you can then work out your bandwidth requirements. Don't forget to allow for bandwidth for your web pages and images.
If necessary you can reduce the size of your audio files by decreasing the bit rate but this will reduce the quality of the sound.
posted by Roger Weavers at 4:08 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home