Web hosting bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users.
Size of web Page: 48 KB
Number of users who viewed the web page: 100
Total amount of data transferred: 48KB * 100 = 4800 KB
Web Hosting Bandwidth is the term that is used to denote the amount of data that has been transferred from your web space.
The amount of hosting bandwidth that you require while choosing a host depends on two factors:
> The size of your site.
> The popularity of your site.
If your site is not very huge and you do not have any audio/video downloads and it’s not very popular i.e. not a lot of people visit your site then you do not really require a lot of bandwidth, on a average a web site uses up only 500 MB of bandwidth per month. Or if your site is small but extremely popular then you might have to go for a web hosting package that offers high web hosting bandwidth.
On the other hand if your web site is huge, providing audio/video downloads, as well as being very popular then you would certainly require a huge amount of bandwidth. Let’s say you have a video file that is 150 MB in size and in a single day a 100 visitors download the file. This means that 15 GB of bandwidth will have been used. If you multiply that by 30 days for the month it comes to 450 GB.
The unlimited web bandwidth controversy
For some time now 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! Jokes apart, if you ever come across such a host it would be best to turn around and run back the way you came from.
Just think, if you can get unlimited bandwidth for $25-30 a month then why aren’t big companies like Sun, Microsoft etc. not hosted there? In fact, why isn't everyone hosted there? For that matter, if unlimited is a standard feature then why don’t all the hosts offer it? Is it because it is expensive and requires better hardware? No, it’s because some hosts are honest and don’t give in to such gimmicks.
Statistically speaking, a T1 Internet connection (huge broadband) equals approximately 500GB per month and costs around $1200 per month. So how can it be possible to get the same or unlimited for $30 a month?
There are a lot of ways you can be duped by these ‘ unlimited’ hosts; here are just a few 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 sort of files that you can host on their server. Generally image galleries and audio/video files attract a lot more downloads thereby resulting in higher bandwidth consumption. So if there are no files of this type, your site won’t really require a lot of web hosting unlimited bandwidth.
Some newly opened hosts use it as a scam. They take your 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. i.e. Your site must use less then, let’s say 2 GB of bandwidth in order to qualify for the unlimited bandwidth feature. As soon as your site goes over that limit they either start charging you for it or cut off your downloads altogether.
In life it’s a universal truth that you always get what you pay for, and it’s no different for web hosting.
If a host is using a cheap advertising gimmick like ‘unlimited’ bandwidth they maybe lying about a few other things too. Their ‘dedicated’ support team could be a single person (the hoster itself in most cases) sitting in front of a computer and taking your calls.
Do you really want unlimited bandwidth hosting from hosts that have very limited resources at their disposal? Or, do you want to go for a host that has spent thousands of dollars on setting up a good network infrastructure, servers, and a highly qualified and dedicated support team? The choice ultimately is yours and yours alone.
петък, 30 октомври 2009 г.
четвъртък, 29 октомври 2009 г.
Unlimited Bandwidth Truth
Is it possible for a web hosting company to offer web hosting unlimited bandwidth?
This is just a marketing tactic, web hosting with unlimited bandwidth doesn't exist. Despite the fact that more and more small web hosting companies are offering unlimited bandwidth, they don't have the resources to backup this.
Web hosting unlimited Bandwidth costs and quality bandwidth is expensive.
Unmetered bandwidth
This is another way unlimited bandwidth is known. According to web hosting companies offering unmetered web hosting bandwidth, they do not count or actively monitor the amount of data transfer a site uses.
Why web hosting unlimited plans are popular?
As a marketing strategy they work very well. Semantically unlimited bandwidth means that cannot be entirely consumed or used up. Psychologically the term releases the buyer from worrying about exceeding a limit.
What's the trick behind web hosting unlimited bandwidth plans?
Most sites do not use a lot of hosting bandwidth. Small web hosting companies know that and depend on this to offer this "bogus" plans.
In their terms of service they often put a lot of restrictions to sites who use a lot of bandwidth.
Ultimately if a site uses more bandwidth than the one they have previously expected, they just say your site have broken some of their terms of service and simply remove the site.
Conclusion
Don't get trick by companies offering web hosting unlimited data transfer hosting plans. Unlimited bandwidth for them is just a more marketable way to hide the real amount of data transfer they offer.
This is just a marketing tactic, web hosting with unlimited bandwidth doesn't exist. Despite the fact that more and more small web hosting companies are offering unlimited bandwidth, they don't have the resources to backup this.
Web hosting unlimited Bandwidth costs and quality bandwidth is expensive.
Unmetered bandwidth
This is another way unlimited bandwidth is known. According to web hosting companies offering unmetered web hosting bandwidth, they do not count or actively monitor the amount of data transfer a site uses.
Why web hosting unlimited plans are popular?
As a marketing strategy they work very well. Semantically unlimited bandwidth means that cannot be entirely consumed or used up. Psychologically the term releases the buyer from worrying about exceeding a limit.
What's the trick behind web hosting unlimited bandwidth plans?
Most sites do not use a lot of hosting bandwidth. Small web hosting companies know that and depend on this to offer this "bogus" plans.
In their terms of service they often put a lot of restrictions to sites who use a lot of bandwidth.
Ultimately if a site uses more bandwidth than the one they have previously expected, they just say your site have broken some of their terms of service and simply remove the site.
Conclusion
Don't get trick by companies offering web hosting unlimited data transfer hosting plans. Unlimited bandwidth for them is just a more marketable way to hide the real amount of data transfer they offer.
сряда, 28 октомври 2009 г.
What is hosting bandwidth and how much do I need for my site?
Web hosting Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred from your account at the web hosting server to visitors of your web site. It is, therefore, also known as data transfer.
You should note that visitors to your web site not only refer to fellow human web surfers but also search engine bots (programs sent out by search engines to index web sites). In fact, the data transfer by you using FTP (for web site maintenance purposes) is also counted in your Web hosting Bandwidth.
Web hosting companies generally mention a per day or, more commonly, a per month Web hosting Bandwidth in their hosting packages.
It is difficult to predict the hosting Bandwidth requirements for a web site because there are many variables involved.
1. Number of visitors
The more the visitors the larger the bandwidth amount required.
2. Web page size
A larger web page size would need more Web hosting Bandwidth. And by web page size, I don't mean just the size of the HTML but also the file sizes of embedded images, external javascript files, external style sheets, Flash movies, music/sound files, video etc.
3. Large file downloads or uploads
Obviously, web sites with small number of pages but offering downloads of very large files (such as music and video files) would have higher bandwidth requirements.
Any way, let us look at some figures to gauge the requirements of an average web site. Consider a web site with 200 web pages where each page is 100KB in size (including images and other external files). If this web site gets 400 visitors each day and each visitor views 3 pages on an average, the web site would be transferring 400 (visitors) X 3 (number of pages viewed by each) X 100KB (file size of web page) = 120,000KB or 120MB each day or 3.6GB per month.
We would all like to believe that your web sites would be the successes of the century but to dampen your "vaulting ambition", it is unlikely that a new web site would get 400 visitors, unless you start with a lot of funds for online advertising like Pay-Per-Click ads. But if you have so much moolah to begin, you would not be bothered about the amount of data transfer anyway.
Coming back to the discussion, you can only get a correct estimate of your web site bandwidth requirements once you put it online.
In any case, the data transfer offered by most web hosts would be more than sufficient for you to start operations and if your web site crosses the set data transfer limit, you can always purchase additional bandwidth.
The truth behind unlimited bandwidth
There are several web hosting companies offering unlimited bandwidth. However, there is more to it than what reaches the eye. Based on their experience, such web hosting companies know it is unlikely that web sites hosted on their servers get high levels of data transfer. Hence, they go ahead and freely advertise unlimited bandwidth. I would recommend that you read the small print and confirm this with the web host. But like I said above, the bandwidth requirements of a new site would be negligible compared to the data transfer offered by web hosts. For example, at the time of writing Lunarpages web hosting company was offering 2500GB monthly transfer.
If you want more information, you can read about unlimited bandwidth and where to get it (?) in a separate article.
You should note that visitors to your web site not only refer to fellow human web surfers but also search engine bots (programs sent out by search engines to index web sites). In fact, the data transfer by you using FTP (for web site maintenance purposes) is also counted in your Web hosting Bandwidth.
Web hosting companies generally mention a per day or, more commonly, a per month Web hosting Bandwidth in their hosting packages.
It is difficult to predict the hosting Bandwidth requirements for a web site because there are many variables involved.
1. Number of visitors
The more the visitors the larger the bandwidth amount required.
2. Web page size
A larger web page size would need more Web hosting Bandwidth. And by web page size, I don't mean just the size of the HTML but also the file sizes of embedded images, external javascript files, external style sheets, Flash movies, music/sound files, video etc.
3. Large file downloads or uploads
Obviously, web sites with small number of pages but offering downloads of very large files (such as music and video files) would have higher bandwidth requirements.
Any way, let us look at some figures to gauge the requirements of an average web site. Consider a web site with 200 web pages where each page is 100KB in size (including images and other external files). If this web site gets 400 visitors each day and each visitor views 3 pages on an average, the web site would be transferring 400 (visitors) X 3 (number of pages viewed by each) X 100KB (file size of web page) = 120,000KB or 120MB each day or 3.6GB per month.
We would all like to believe that your web sites would be the successes of the century but to dampen your "vaulting ambition", it is unlikely that a new web site would get 400 visitors, unless you start with a lot of funds for online advertising like Pay-Per-Click ads. But if you have so much moolah to begin, you would not be bothered about the amount of data transfer anyway.
Coming back to the discussion, you can only get a correct estimate of your web site bandwidth requirements once you put it online.
In any case, the data transfer offered by most web hosts would be more than sufficient for you to start operations and if your web site crosses the set data transfer limit, you can always purchase additional bandwidth.
The truth behind unlimited bandwidth
There are several web hosting companies offering unlimited bandwidth. However, there is more to it than what reaches the eye. Based on their experience, such web hosting companies know it is unlikely that web sites hosted on their servers get high levels of data transfer. Hence, they go ahead and freely advertise unlimited bandwidth. I would recommend that you read the small print and confirm this with the web host. But like I said above, the bandwidth requirements of a new site would be negligible compared to the data transfer offered by web hosts. For example, at the time of writing Lunarpages web hosting company was offering 2500GB monthly transfer.
If you want more information, you can read about unlimited bandwidth and where to get it (?) in a separate article.
вторник, 27 октомври 2009 г.
web hosting unlimited bandwidth guide
I want web hosting unlimited bandwidth for my web site. Where can I get it?
The bandwidth of your site is the amount of data transferred from your hosting server account to the visitors of your web site. The visitors include web surfers who stumble upon your web site, search engine bots, and you (when you upload files using FTP).
Each web hosting server is connected to the internet with a network line which may be a fiber optic line, a cable line or a simple electrical wire. The amount of data transferred by these lines is limited. So the issue of unlimited bandwidth is false! That said, let us understand why web hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth in their packages and where you can get it.
Web hosting unlimited bandwidth or unmetered bandwidth - Myth or Fact... or just plain marketing trick?
Several web hosting firms offer web hosting with unlimited bandwidth. Does this mean they are misleading prospects? Is unlimited bandwidth just a marketing gimmick?
The thing is no web hosting company can offer this feature even though they put it boldly in their advertisements because their net connection can carry only a limited amount of data.
So unlimited bandwidth web hosting is a myth!
Does this mean you can sue them for lying? Oh no... read the small print attached to the unlimited bandwidth phrase.
How can web hosts advertise web hosting with unlimited bandwidth?
Each web hosting company has a fixed amount of bandwidth because the network lines they use can carry only a fixed amount of data. They know that most web sites hosted on their servers will consume only negligible part of the bandwidth. To put it in figures (even though these are very fuzzy), a smallish web site of a company getting 500 visitors per day will probably have about 5 to 20GB of data transfer per month. [This, as you might know, depends on the number of pages viewed by each visitor, the file sizes of the pages, the file size of images and multimedia elements on the web pages etc.].
Any way, web host companies know with reasonable surety that web sites hosted on their servers will take up only a small amount the bandwidth. It would be rare if a web site reaches the bandwidth levels they have set (which you can get in the small print). And, so companies offer web hosting unlimited bandwidth in their web hosting packages.
I like to think that web hosting unlimited bandwidth offered by different web hosting companies has more to do with helping new prospects than a marketing trick. It is easier for beginners to understand the concept of unlimited than trying to work out the numbers for their web sites. Experienced web developers know that unlimited bandwidth hosting has more truth in it than someone walking over water - The good Lord above is excused from this.
Is it fine to take a unlimited bandwidth hosting plan?
If you are just starting a web site, an unlimited web hosting bandwith plan would be a good idea. Though we know by now that there is no such thing as web hosting unlimited bandwidth, you would soon be able to gauge how much of data transfer your web site gets each month. At least you would not have immediate problems with your web hosting company. As I mentioned above, a smallish business or company web site with about 50-100 pages would not reach significant bandwidth levels. Read "What is bandwidth and how much do I need for my web site?" if you want to know how to calculate bandwidth for your web site.
However, if you plan to put a lot of music or video files (or any other large files) for download, you might just run into problems if your web site suddenly becomes very popular. (We all wish that our web sites start getting tens of thousands of visitors in their first month, however, we must keep our vaulting ambition in check. All web sites take time to get properly indexed by search engines and then have decent rankings for search queries).
Where can you get web hosting plans with unlimited bandwidth?
Web hosting industry is very competitive and several web hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth in their packages. You might say - "Now that I know there is no such thing as web hosting unlimited bandwidth - should I trust companies offering it?"
As I mentioned before, if you are just starting off, there are no problems in putting your web site on a package with unlimited hosting. At least, you don't have to worry about the amount of data transfer the next few months even if your web site suddenly starts hitting it high on visitor numbers. And if that happens you would realize that your web site has outgrown the features offered by the server and that would prompt you to shift to a new and better web server.
Final word: For most beginners, web hosting packages with unlimited bandwidth is as safe an option as one in which the bandwidth limit has been explicitly mentione.
The bandwidth of your site is the amount of data transferred from your hosting server account to the visitors of your web site. The visitors include web surfers who stumble upon your web site, search engine bots, and you (when you upload files using FTP).
Each web hosting server is connected to the internet with a network line which may be a fiber optic line, a cable line or a simple electrical wire. The amount of data transferred by these lines is limited. So the issue of unlimited bandwidth is false! That said, let us understand why web hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth in their packages and where you can get it.
Web hosting unlimited bandwidth or unmetered bandwidth - Myth or Fact... or just plain marketing trick?
Several web hosting firms offer web hosting with unlimited bandwidth. Does this mean they are misleading prospects? Is unlimited bandwidth just a marketing gimmick?
The thing is no web hosting company can offer this feature even though they put it boldly in their advertisements because their net connection can carry only a limited amount of data.
So unlimited bandwidth web hosting is a myth!
Does this mean you can sue them for lying? Oh no... read the small print attached to the unlimited bandwidth phrase.
How can web hosts advertise web hosting with unlimited bandwidth?
Each web hosting company has a fixed amount of bandwidth because the network lines they use can carry only a fixed amount of data. They know that most web sites hosted on their servers will consume only negligible part of the bandwidth. To put it in figures (even though these are very fuzzy), a smallish web site of a company getting 500 visitors per day will probably have about 5 to 20GB of data transfer per month. [This, as you might know, depends on the number of pages viewed by each visitor, the file sizes of the pages, the file size of images and multimedia elements on the web pages etc.].
Any way, web host companies know with reasonable surety that web sites hosted on their servers will take up only a small amount the bandwidth. It would be rare if a web site reaches the bandwidth levels they have set (which you can get in the small print). And, so companies offer web hosting unlimited bandwidth in their web hosting packages.
I like to think that web hosting unlimited bandwidth offered by different web hosting companies has more to do with helping new prospects than a marketing trick. It is easier for beginners to understand the concept of unlimited than trying to work out the numbers for their web sites. Experienced web developers know that unlimited bandwidth hosting has more truth in it than someone walking over water - The good Lord above is excused from this.
Is it fine to take a unlimited bandwidth hosting plan?
If you are just starting a web site, an unlimited web hosting bandwith plan would be a good idea. Though we know by now that there is no such thing as web hosting unlimited bandwidth, you would soon be able to gauge how much of data transfer your web site gets each month. At least you would not have immediate problems with your web hosting company. As I mentioned above, a smallish business or company web site with about 50-100 pages would not reach significant bandwidth levels. Read "What is bandwidth and how much do I need for my web site?" if you want to know how to calculate bandwidth for your web site.
However, if you plan to put a lot of music or video files (or any other large files) for download, you might just run into problems if your web site suddenly becomes very popular. (We all wish that our web sites start getting tens of thousands of visitors in their first month, however, we must keep our vaulting ambition in check. All web sites take time to get properly indexed by search engines and then have decent rankings for search queries).
Where can you get web hosting plans with unlimited bandwidth?
Web hosting industry is very competitive and several web hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth in their packages. You might say - "Now that I know there is no such thing as web hosting unlimited bandwidth - should I trust companies offering it?"
As I mentioned before, if you are just starting off, there are no problems in putting your web site on a package with unlimited hosting. At least, you don't have to worry about the amount of data transfer the next few months even if your web site suddenly starts hitting it high on visitor numbers. And if that happens you would realize that your web site has outgrown the features offered by the server and that would prompt you to shift to a new and better web server.
Final word: For most beginners, web hosting packages with unlimited bandwidth is as safe an option as one in which the bandwidth limit has been explicitly mentione.
Web Hosting Unlimited Bandwidth: Too Good to Be True ?
How is Web Hosting Unlimited Bandwidth Possible on your accounts?
This question is asked by many of web hosting customers and the answer is Storage Area Network (SAN). By using a SAN system, web hosting companies are able to provide their customers web hosting unlimited bandwidth. In a SAN server setup, unlike a traditional web server, the data is not stored in internal hard-drives.
They are stackable and upgradeable to virtually an unlimited amount, up to thousands upon thousands of Terabytes (TB) of hard disk space. If the web hosting company see an increase in demand, they will just stack additional hard drives into the SAN, thus enabling us to provide you with unlimited bandwidth.
Along with limitless data storage, we are also connected to multiple GigE ports at our data center. Every single server is connected to two GigE (1000 Mbps) lines into our modern routers. This means each server has a really big pipe for traffic for our customers' websites to flow through. Web hosting with unlimited bandwidth
This question is asked by many of web hosting customers and the answer is Storage Area Network (SAN). By using a SAN system, web hosting companies are able to provide their customers web hosting unlimited bandwidth. In a SAN server setup, unlike a traditional web server, the data is not stored in internal hard-drives.
They are stackable and upgradeable to virtually an unlimited amount, up to thousands upon thousands of Terabytes (TB) of hard disk space. If the web hosting company see an increase in demand, they will just stack additional hard drives into the SAN, thus enabling us to provide you with unlimited bandwidth.
Along with limitless data storage, we are also connected to multiple GigE ports at our data center. Every single server is connected to two GigE (1000 Mbps) lines into our modern routers. This means each server has a really big pipe for traffic for our customers' websites to flow through. Web hosting with unlimited bandwidth
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