What is a good bandwidth to host a small internet application at home [closed]

Question

I'm developing a small app, and i'm going to host it at home. I expect to have more or less 1000 visits per day. It's an average web site, no too much images nor videos.

Currently, I've 0.56 Mbps upload.

Do you think i'm going to have any problem?

Every comment will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

if your going to see 1000 visits per day then i can bet that your home connection wont be anywhere near reliable enough to maintain that 0.5Mbps all day, remember you likely have to contend for that speed with anything up to 50 or even 100 local users depending on the quality of your ISP

in short if you want to run anything reliable for more than a handful (more than 20 people) i seriously recommend using a real internet connection that has more than a couple of mbps upload and isnt contended by such a large scale of most general home isp's

Answer 2

.56mbps is not very fast, but it could be perfectly good for the usage you describe.

Let me reverse the question - will your users mind waiting an extra 1 second for a page to load? If they do, then your bandwidth is poor. If they don't mind, then you are fine, you're upstream bandwidth is as good as 1.5mbps, you get it?

Answer 3

If there really is a . before the 56Mbps, than yes, there will be problems. Just calculate: you have 500 kbits/sec, so it's about 62,5kBytes/sec.

If there's two concurrent visitor, they receive 30kBytes per second. If you have 4 pictues on the site, 30-40 kbytes/piece, you're site will load for nearly 10 seconds.

Answer 4

Will each visitor load only 1 page each? How big is that page on average?

Suppose all visitors come evenly distributed between 08:00 and 16:00 (8 hours), you then have 125 visits per hour, or 0.035 visitors per second.

0.035 visitors per second sharing 56 Kbps, gives 1600 Kbit per user, which translates to approx 200 KByte per page, including pictures and videos.

I'd say it depends very much on your content and user behaviour if the upstream bandwidth will be enough. The visitors will probably think your site is slow if you have many visitors at the same time, or if your pages are large.