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Have you ever wondered what all this bandwidth talk is about with Internet and web hosting companies? Often webmasters and people in general are not familiar with these terms, otherwise known as data transfer, gigabyte transfer, metered and un-metered service.
When you want your website to be visible on the Internet for web surfers to view by entering your URL, you will need to have a web hosting account. These types of accounts are usually virtual hosting, also known as shared hosting and servers. Virtual/shared is when you have a small website on the same server with other websites that share the resources of the machine for a fraction of the monthly cost. A dedicated server is where you have control of the whole machine and do not share it with other websites; you can add several of your own websites to a dedicated server. Web hosting accounts are usually priced based on disk space size, bandwidth usage and add-on features.
Bandwidth is a term used to describe the amount of data that your website transmits over the course of a month. Every time a client accesses your web page, they download your images and your HTML files, thus increasing your bandwidth usage. If you were to put a large movie, say a size of 100 MB into your hosting account, after just 10 downloads you will have achieved 1 GB of bandwidth (10x100MB = 1GB). This means that every time someone accesses your website, your host is going to calculate the total of all data size information that is transmitted to their computer. Bandwidth is the total amount of data that you are transferring in/out of the server, which includes FTP transfers, and email.
It is very common that bandwidth is going to be calculated by the gigabyte, also known as GB. A starter size website with a few images and pages can generate around 2 GB in a month, where as a larger, more established site could use around 45 GB on a virtual/shared hosting account. For those who handle large volumes of bandwidth, a dedicated server will accommodate you better with averages of around 350 GB or more monthly.
If you use more then 327 GB in a month, then it will be common to refer to your usage as 1 Meg sustained. This means you are transferring data at an average speed of 1 Megabyte per second sustained throughout the month. At this point it would be common to start referring to how many Megs of traffic you handle in a month. This is usually billed using the 95th percentile calculation.
95th Percentile billing calculates the total in and out traffic from your server. On a high speed Internet connection such as a 10/100 Meg, you will be able to peak as high as you need. This is why some server connections are faster then others, as they have access to burst on a large-scale network if their website traffic increases. Over the period of a month, the software calculates samples of the highest peaks and sustained traffic and eliminates the top 5% peaks. Then you are billed for the other 95% usage.
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