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Bandwidth Offerings of Web Hosting Companies
By Jeff Grossman
Web Hosting Fanatic
One of the most
confusing concepts that the web hosting industry
has to offer is bandwidth. Although small
businesses looking for a web hosting might not
think bandwidth is a big enough deal to spend
hours researching it, bandwidth has the ability
to either make or break any website. It affects
the speed of your site, the reliability and
uptime of the site, and even the professionalism
of the website. There are thousands of web
hosting companies around the world offering
anywhere from megabytes to terabytes of
bandwidth from hundreds of different providers.
When choosing a web host for your site, it is
extremely important to find one with the perfect
amount of bandwidth and the best providers.
For most
personal or small business sites that are
opening up a website for the first time, not a
lot of bandwidth will be needed. Whereas for
large business and corporation websites, or
sites that focus on file mirroring, hundreds or
even thousands of gigabytes of high quality
bandwidth might be needed. The simple way to
figure out how much bandwidth you will need to
run your site is to calculate the size of each
page your website, usually in kilobytes, and
multiply it by how many users you expect to
access that page each month. 99% of
web hosting
companies give you monthly allotments of
bandwidth whether you pay monthly or annually.
However, it is always a good idea to make sure
you know whether your host gives you monthly or
yearly allotments of bandwidth. Pretend you want
to start up a one page website that has a 100k
file size. And you estimate that you will
receive 10,000 hits per month. By multiplying
these two values together, you will need to buy
a web host with 1000000k or 1000mb or 1GB. But
remember, if you plan to have a multi page
website, the bandwidth usage will be a lot
higher than this. File mirroring sites use the
most bandwidth because their main purpose is to
transfer rather large files to thousands of
users worldwide. If you want to learn more about
web hosting bandwidth read some
web hosting articles that are credible.
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