Unlimited Bandwidth in Web Hosting

Width of banda has explained:

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you can have for a hosting package ie Let's say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens the site and goes to that page S / he downloads 48 KB of information about your computer. If a 100 users view the page every time there was a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server where files are stored on users' computers.

Web Page Size: 48 KB

Number of users who have visited the web page: 100

Total amount of data transferred: 48KB * 100 = 4800 KB

Bandwidth is the term that is used to indicate the amount of data that is transferred from your web space.

The amount of bandwidth that you need, while the choice of a host depends on two factors:

> The size of your site.

> The popularity of your site.

If your site is not very large and there are audio / video downloads and it is not very popular ie not a lot of people visiting your site, then you do not really need a lot of banda, an average of a site Web uses up only 500 MB of bandwidth per month. Or, if your site is small, but extremely popular then you could go for a web hosting package that offers high bandwidth.

On the other hand if your website is huge, providing audio / video download, in addition to being very popular then it would certainly require a large amount of bandwidth. Let's say you have a video file is 150 MB in size and in a single day's 100 visitors download the file. This means that 15 GB of bandwidth were used. If you multiply by 30 days per month is 450 GB.

The unlimited bandwidth controversy

For some time a lot of hosting companies are supposedly providing "unlimited bandwidth" for their web hosting packages.

It 's absolutely true, you can have unlimited bandwidth. However, you will need an unlimited amount of money by your side! Seriously, if I ever came across a series that would be better to turn around and run back where you came from.

Just think, if you can get unlimited bandwidth for $ 25-30 a month, because they are not big companies like Sun, Microsoft etc. not hosted there? Actually, not all because it is hosted there? Moreover, if unlimited is a standard feature then why not all hosts offer? Perhaps because it is expensive and requires better hardware? No, it's because some hosts are honest and not give in to such gimmicks.

Statistically speaking, a T1 Internet connection (broadband huge) equals approximately 500GB per month and costs about $ 1200 per month. So how can it be possible to achieve the same or unlimited for $ 30 a month?

There are lots of ways you can be deceived by these 'unlimited' hosts, here are just some of them:

The secret of 'unlimited' is actually buried in the Terms of Service by the host. Do not be surprised to find that unlimited = 15 GB.

The host may restrict the type of file that you can host on your server. Generally image galleries and audio / video files attract a lot more downloads thereby resulting in higher consumption of banda. So if there are no such files, your site will not really need a lot of banda.

Some newly opened hosts, use it as a scam. They take the money and after a few months when their server starts to become slow or reaches its limit, they run ... with your money!

Some hosts outline in their terms of service that you can have unlimited bandwidth as long as you qualify for it. ie Your site must use less, say 2 GB of bandwidth in order to qualify for the unlimited bandwidth feature. Once your website goes beyond the limit that is charging you for it or cut off your downloads altogether.

In life it is a universal truth that you always get what you pay for, and no different for web hosting.

If a host uses a cheap advertising gimmick like the width of banda 'unlimited' that maybe lying about some other things too. Their teams 'dedicated' support might be one person (the hoster itself in most cases) sitting in front of a computer and take calls.

Do you really want unlimited bandwidth hosting from hosts that have very limited resources at their disposal? Or, you want to go for a host that has spent thousands of dollars to create a good network infrastructure, servers, and a team of highly qualified and dedicated support? The choice is ultimately yours and yours alone .......