Need a web hosting? One of the most important things to consider before deciding on the right web hosting plan is Bandwidth. But what does the Bandwidth really stand for?
Web Hosting - Bandwidth
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mario_Andreis]Mario Andreis
It's perhaps the most popular web hosting term. It represents the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. Let us explain with a simple example what bandwidth is. Imagine water running through pipes. A specific amount of water needs to be delivered through a pipe from one place to another. If the pipe water is running through is a narrow one, it will take more time to deliver water through than if the pipe is a big one. We can say that the second pipe is "wider" than the first pipe. Or, we could take another step and say that the big pipe has more bandwidth than the narrow pipe. And ultimately, that's what bandwidth is all about. How much stuff can pass through the pipe (or wire) at a time.
Hosting plans usually have bandwidth requirements measured in months, so you need to estimate the amount of bandwidth that will be required by your site on a monthly basis. If your hosting plan offers 10GB per month that means that your web site is allowed to have the traffic amount of 10GB per month. How the traffic is created? Every time when someone visits your site traffic is created. In order to view the web page on your computer, the web page is first downloaded to your computer and is then displayed using your browser software. If the web page you're viewing is 100KB you've just created 100KB of traffic. But if you also downloaded a video clip which is 20MB you've created the traffic of 100KB+20MB. Uploading also creates traffic similarly. Note that downloading and uploading of images, vids and other data-rich content creates significant increase in traffic.
How much bandwidth you need?
Once again bandwidth as related to web hosting is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet community. A small or medium web site will consume between 1GB and 5GB of data transfer per month. Calculate how much bandwidth your site will need.
Mario Andreis runs [http://www.hostinglair.com/index.html]HostingLair.com, a site dedicated to helping customers understand web hosting issues and find reliable web hosting providers.
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