What is bandwidth?
Bandwidth is the amount of information that is transferred from your web site to people surfing your site. For example, if your first page is 10KB and 100 people go to your page in a month, you’ve used 1000KB or 1MB. Each hosting plan we offer allocates a different amount of bandwidth transfer per month. Please see our Web Hosting Plans page for specific details.
Bandwidth is a term used to describe how much information can be transmitted over a connection. Bandwidth is usually given as bits per second, or as some larger denomination of bits, such as Megabits per second, expressed as kbit/s or Mbit/s. Bandwidth is a gross measurement, taking the total amount of data transferred in a given period of time as a rate, without taking into consideration the quality of the signal itself. Throughput can be looked at as a subset of bandwidth that takes into account whether data was successfully transmitted or not. While the bandwidth of a connection might be quite high, if the signal loss is also high, then the throughput of the connection will remain somewhat low. Conversely, even a relatively low-bandwidth connection can have a moderately high throughput if the signal quality is also high. Bandwidth is most familiar to consumers because of its use by hosting companies or internet service providers. The sense in which bandwidth is used by most web host
Bandwidth is the amount of traffic that a site may use per month. As with the above section on space, the amount of bandwidth you need depends on the type of site you will be running. A simple web site, for example for a club with just few members, would not need the amount of bandwidth a commercial site would use. You can estimate the amount of bandwidth needed from the size of your site and the number of expected visitors. Again, don’t limit yourself here, as exceeding your monthly bandwidth allocation will mean you will be charged for the extra usage, typically at a much higher rate, or even shut down for the remainder of the month.
