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Originally posted by Mutt@Feb 12 2003, 10:10 AM
how much bandwidth do you think a site that says it has 500 members would use per month on a video feed plugin that has broadband 300k and dialup 56k streams?
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We use our own raw hits to the plugin when comparing cost with the other plugins in our system... that way they can bill us anyway they want, but we just match our bill with how many raws we send to the plugin... ex. lets say we get a bill for $1000, and see that we have send 100 raw hit to the plugin, then we know that feed is not good business. This also works on "per member" billing, "per access" billing, and we have an easy way to find out which plugins are too expensive (well for our taste
When taking on a new pluging which use bandwidth billing, then we usual count 1 raw hit = 10-20mb transfer on average high bandwidth plugins. Depending on the number of plugins and how many current raw hits we got, then its pretty easy to find/guess how much it will cost before it goes live...
Now there are many things, which can not be counted for just by looking at the hits we send to each plugin, but its the best alternativ we have until all content providers start to bill bandwidth or access (even then it will still be nice to know, what our members are clicking on
