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still, your bandwidth usage is pretty much the equivalent of what comes with a single dedicated server.


Yes, but it is all dynamic content, which it why it needs so many resources, if that is what you are getting it.

Also, Akamai offloads a lot of the traffic from us.


When you ignore the CDN and other external resources, that's pretty much how most text based sites are. The ads alone probably exceed that 6.5TB number.

Also, be careful with those dedicated servers. They can give you ONE MEEELLION TB of bandwidth but it won't do you any good on a 100mb pipe or an extremely oversold network.




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