A little over 95% (actual numbers) of our shared customers use under 10MB of their 5000MB limit on our entry level hosting plan. With anything up to 500 accounts on each server – should we allocate 2.5TB of storage to each server just to support this – or do you work with real figures and install 500GB drives?

Bandwidth wise, the figures are even more so. 50GB of traffic/month per user; 500 users per server — in theory, thats 250TB of bw a month we need to be able to supply. In reality, 2% of our sites per server make up 99% of usage. The average user pushes less than 20MB/month.

You see where I’m going with this….