Today, international market is full up with huge competition and bluff peoples. Cold wars are taking place in the industries. Web hosting industries is also a part of international market, where they deal with international customers and distributes its services world wide. Today a lot of hosting companies offer “Unlimited Bandwidth” with their Web Hosting Packages. If you are new in hosting industries, it will be interesting to know the new term the ‘Bandwidth’.
Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the total amount of data transfer from your website to user’s computer. Let’s take an example to understand the exact meaning of bandwidth and how it works? Consider that, your website contains 5 web pages with 30 KB in size. Now when user opens your web site she/he downloads 30 KB of contents on his/her Pc, because home page of your web site also contains 30 KB of data. If user will surf your whole web site then 150 KB of information are transferred from your web site to user’s computer. Bandwidth is considered as total data transfer from your website in the month. If a 100 visitors visit your web site daily, you require 440 MB bandwidth per month. Following is a simple calculation for the total required bandwidth per month.
Total bandwidth for month = Total no of webpage X Size of each webpage X Total no of expected visitors per day X 30.
Here, total no of web pages are 5 and each page contains 30 KB of data, total expected visitors are 100, so it should be like 5*30*100*30 = 450000 KB per month. (439.4531 MB)
Total amount of bandwidth that you are required while choosing your hosting plan depends on two criteria. First is your web site size and second is your site popularity. If your site is small and not much popular then your web site uses up to 500 MB to 1.5 GB bandwidth per month. On the other side if your site contains images, audio, video contents and a very popular in market then you need more.
Unlimited Bandwidth: Today a lot of hosting companies offer ‘Unlimited Bandwidth’ with their hosting plan in just $25 to $30 per month! It’s amazing isn’t it? If it is potential then why all hosting companies do not offer it? , why big companies do not prefer to host their sites with them?
You think that it is not possible because it is costly and it requires better hardware and software resources? No! The main thing is that, some of the hosting providers are honest and some are bluff. Don’t be surprised if you find out secret behind the unlimited bandwidth offer in fact they do not offer unlimited it is often restricted up to 15 GB per month. Some hosting providers offer unlimited bandwidth with some criteria like your web site should not contain large images, audio, video and other animations. Some newly hosting companies use ‘Unlimited’ as trick. They take money from you and after few months when their servers are down they run away.
What is your Choice? Now choice is yours to choose hosting provider with Unlimited Bandwidth banner where they have very limited stockpile Or you would like to go with a hosting provider with round the clock support and good network server configuration with highly professional peoples.
