Title: Bandwidth Consumption
Last modified: January 19, 2018

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# Bandwidth Consumption

 *  Resolved [thebowencenter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thebowencenter/)
 * (@thebowencenter)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-consumption/)
 * Does anyone know how podcasts consume bandwidth from one’s webhost? We have a
   120GB limit on our webhost bandwidth, and we usually go over the limit every 
   month. In investigating why, I found out our podcast feed page seems to be one
   of the main bandwidth consumers. Our podcast episodes on average are 75MB in 
   size, and the majority of our listeners don’t download the episodes (maybe 1 
   or 2 per episode). We also host our videos on Amazon S3 servers.

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 *  Plugin Author [Craig Hewitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podcastmotor/)
 * (@podcastmotor)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-consumption/#post-9886128)
 * Hi there. To calculate the bandwidth you would just need to multiply the file
   size by the # of listeners you have. If you have 1000 listeners for your show
   that would be 75,000 MB or 75 GB. 100 listeners would be 7.5 GB, etc.
 * So you have a few options:
    1. Get a dedicated media hosting platform – these
   are designed specifically to delivery those podcast media files, and alleviate
   this concern of your web host’s limits 2. Mix your files at a different rate –
   75MB seems like a pretty large file. How long are your episodes? At 128kbps your
   file should be about 1MB/Minute – sampling at a lower rate like 96kbps would 
   lower this file size and is still perfectly fine for almost all podcasts.
 * Hope that helps.
    Craig
 *  Thread Starter [thebowencenter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thebowencenter/)
 * (@thebowencenter)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-consumption/#post-9895224)
 * Wow! This is really helpful, thanks so much for your help! 🙂
 *  [ClosetDevlopr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seriouspodcaster/)
 * (@seriouspodcaster)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-consumption/#post-9943751)
 * So glad to hear that helped 🙂
 * Just shout if there’s anything else we can assist you with!

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-consumption/#post-9943751)
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