Bandwidth Offerings of Web Hosting Companies

By Jeff Grossman
Web Hosting Fanatic

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All bandwidth providers have different prices, which in turn affect the prices that the datacenters and web hosting companies charge their clients. The normal prices can go anywhere from 10 cents to 50 dollars per gigabyte of bandwidth. However, the normal web hosting prices usually range from $1-$2 per gigabyte. The more that you pay per gigabyte usually reflects the quality of the bandwidth and the uptime that you will receive from your web host. If you are purchasing a dedicated server you might come across the tern megabit. Don’t be fooled, a megabit is quite different from a megabyte. A megabit means that you can transfer at a speed of one megabyte per second constantly. This comes out to about 324 gigabytes per month of transfer. You might also see 32kbs, 64kbs, 128kbs, or anything like that advertised, meaning that you can transfer at 32 kilobytes per minute constantly, etc.

            One thing that you will want to watch out for when selecting a web host is the additional fee that is charged when you go over your bandwidth limit. If you see a high fee as compared to the cost of the initial bandwidth allotment, it usually means one of two things. First, it could mean that the company might be overselling, which means that they are promising people more bandwidth than they have the ability to sell for that price. They assume that if someone goes over the bandwidth limit then they will make the money back by charging them higher rates for overages. The second thing that it could mean is simply that they want to make more money by charging a high fee on overages.

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