How do I measure the resource demand of my site?

[jgold723]

We recently had an issue trying to move our site from a GoDaddy Unlimited hosting account to a GoDaddy cpanel hosting account (which despite what the sales person told us, has less resources than what we were leaving). The transfer failed -- GoDaddy agents said our ZC installation and Wordpress blog were consuming too much memory (we received "unable to allocate memory pool" errors).

So, we're back on our original unlimited plan and looking to move away from GD -- but before we do, I think I need to figure out how much RAM and bandwidth we need so this doesn't happen again.

How do I do that?

I took a quick look in the control panel for my GD account and claims the site is using roughly 35,000MB of bandwidth each day - seems like a lot to me. Could this be correct? If so, does it indicate a problem?

If I need to post more data here (maybe the number of transactions each day?) let me know.

Thanks for your help,

John

[kobra]

What is your site?
How large in byte size are your images?
http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?...aration-how-to
Or install image handler

[RixStix]

Wow. That's more bandwidth than we use in 6 months.

[jgold723]

The site is brooklyntweed.com. It consists of a mix of static pages, a ZC 1.3.9a installation and a wordpress blog. There is approximately 7 GB of data on the server. There are a lot of images (the static pages were all built in photoshop/sitegrinder). Despite this the site seems to work well -- pages load at a decent speed (a little slow) and we don't run into any resource issues from GoDaddy (at least with our current hosting, which they plan to phase out).

I'm a little stumped by the 35,000 MB/day of bandwidth figure -- I have to think that's wrong, or GoDaddy would be threatening to shut us down. But I'm not sure how to determine exactly what we need for hosting.