Bandwidth question - opinions please?

Hi,

I have been doing web design for a while, but this is my first paying gig, so I need to make sure I get this right.

My client really wants to go with a webhost that is a local company. For $100/year she only gets 200mb bandwidth transfer per month. I think this is a joke, and I think she will easily go over this amount.

She has a company SIMILAR to chubbybum.com and wants a similarly formatted website, just to let you know the type and scale of site that i am dealing with.

So she asked the people that worked at the web host about my concerns, and they said, "Well 200mb of transfer is a huge amount per month, you will never reach that." I think that is crap--I just know on my blog that gets 1000 hits/wk that i have already had 400mb transfer in January. I know her site won't get that many hits, but i would just be concerned about going over.

So basically the point of this post is to please verify that i am not insane, and that 200mb of transfer is not going to be enough so i know that i am giving her good advice on dumping this company and going with someone else.

Thanks in advance,

Laura

 

size of website * number of monthy visitors = total monthly bandwidth (do note this is a worst case scenario - the user would have to download everything on every page)

You can see that there are a couple of variables, but I just checked the size of the website I'm currently developing, one that I've been TRYING to keep lean, and it's at 101MB. If ONE PERSON visited every page, that's over half of that bandwidth taken up. What do overages cost? Probably something ridiculous!