Domain Hosting and Bandwidth

Why bandwidth is so important when you sign up for a web hosting plan? By definition, bandwidth is the amount of data that passes through a certain connection over a period of time. Its unit of measurement is bits-per-second or bps, while it can also be measured in megabits per second, or mbps. This term is interchangeable with data transfer allowance.

Web hosting provider put a high regard to bandwidth because as the web hosting client, you need to see to it that the amount of data transferred is acceptable, because this will help determine how much data is allowed for your website. The transfer allowance is basically the amount of allowable data transferred between your website and the people accessing your website. Now the million dollar question is: how do you determine the amount of transfer allowance that your website needs? If you want to know, you should take a good look at the actual data transfer created by your website.

To cite an example, if your website has 5 pages, then each page is approximately 50 kb. This means that if a user will take a look at one page of your site then that amounts to 50 kb. If he views 5 pages then that's 50 kb multiplied by 5 (pages) which makes it 250 kb. If you have around a hundred visitors in a day and they view all your web pages, then that is about 25,000 kb or 24.41 megabytes. If you multiply this amount with 30 (number of days in a one month period), then that is the transfer allowance or the bandwidth you will need per month. Take note that there should still be extra room for other things which require data allowance, such as emailing, utilizing FTP, and uploading. So you see, getting a good understanding of the bandwidth your site needs will surely help smoothen the flow of traffic to your website.