how much does bandwidth cost?

How much does the bandwidth cost per month for this site? I'm curious.

Bandwidth is part of the package deal that comes with the server... it's not a separate price. We are allowed 700 gigabytes per month, and use between 100 and 150 currently. To put things in perspective... A clean T1 line can burst at about 11.2 megabytes per minute... But is reliable for 9.6 megabytes per minute of constant throughput Which is about 460 gigabytes a month. T1's typically cost about $700/month for a clean line from a decent provider. Our provider has multiple high-bandwidth lines (much "fatter" than T1's) so the bandwidth is cheaper thanks to volume. [Edited on 4-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]

so we can only have 460gb of bandwith a month max??

Hmm I'm not sure if my question was answered or not Would it be accurate to say that ATS pays roughly $1000 a month to stay online?

Originally posted by ktprktpr Hmm I'm not sure if my question was answered or not

Would it be accurate to say that ATS pays roughly $1000 a month to stay online?

no We lease a dedicated server with a combined package of bandwidth/hardware from a firm that is pretty much a server-farm in business to sell machine/bandwidth combinations. I'd rather not reveal the price in a public forum... but it's not hard to do a little research on high-end hardware with 700gigabyte bandwidth alotments and come to a guess.

ktprktpr, you are not thinking about starting up one of your own sites are you?

in my own way, pizza-man, in my own way We'l see the results of this later.