We have become used to thinking of Website transfer in terms of GigaBytes per month. For example, the average site uses approximately 3 GB of data transfer monthly; this equates to some 60,000 page views each month. Naturally this will vary with the type of site - static, database driven or ecommerce. This metric simply does not work for a high availability cloud system like the VHS because of the very nature of the infrastructure.

Instead we calculate usage in terms of compute cycles which measure processing times of your applications, HTML pages and graphics across the VHS Network. Web applications do vary greatly in terms of how much CPU usage is needed by any one process, however we can give you a close estimate as listed below:

  • 500 Compute Cycles is approximately:
    • 500,000 monthly page views for an average Website
    • 125,000 monthly page views for a database-driven content management system
    • 1,150,000 monthly page views for a static 15KB image
Follow the above logic to calculate other compute cycles - example; 1000 compute cycles would provide 1 million, 250,000 and 2.3 million page views respectively.

Effectively, the VHS System, provides plenty of bang for the buck when you factor in the benefits of the infrastructure in terms of reliability and performance. Your Website is hosted in an 'always available' environment and for the very reasonable fees we offer...well that's true value.

Please note that we also include a generous amount of bandwidth measured in gigabytes monthly. Some sites will use 15 GB of data transfer and only 300 or so compute cycles; others will use 2000 compute cycles and often less than 10 GB of data transfer. Usage is directly related to the type of website - from a mostly static site with only a few forms to a busy database-driven site with plenty of activity from web-based applications. Choose your VHS Hosting Plant based on your knowledge or best estimate of your site's current needs; you can scale up later very easily, if needed.

In any event extra transfer or compute cycles are very well priced.
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