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Most website hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their website hosting plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that a website hosting company allows to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a website hosting company can provide is determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public internet.

The internet, in the most simplest of terms, is a group of millions of computers connected by nillions of networks including website hosting networks. These connections within the internet can be large or small depending upon the cabling and equipment that is used at a particular website hosting internet location. It is the size of each website hosting network connection that determines how much bandwidth is available. For example, if you use a DSL connection to connect to the internet, you have 1.54 Mega bits (Mb) of bandwidth.

A very simple website hosting analogy to use to understand bandwidth and traffic is to think of highways and cars. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on the highway and traffic is the number of cars on the highway.

Website hosting traffic is simply the number of bits that are transferred on network connections. It is easiest to understand website hosting traffic using examples. One Gigabyte is 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes.

If you were to transfer a 4MB MP3 song from a web site on your website hosting to your computer, you would create 4MB of website hosting traffic between the web site you are downloading from and your computer. Depending upon the website hosting network connection between the web site and the internet, the website hosting transfer may occur very quickly, or it could take time if other people are also downloading files at the same time. If, for example, the website hosting web site you download from has a 10MB connection to the internet, and you are the only person accessing that web site to download your MP3, your 4MB file will be the only website hosting traffic on that web site. However, if three people are all downloading that same MP at the same time, 12MB (3 x 4MB) of website hosting traffic has been created. Because in this example, the website hosting only has 10MB of bandwidth, someone will have to wait. The network equipment at the website hosting company will cycle through each person downloading the file and transfer a small portion at a time so each person's file transfer can take place, but the transfer for everyone downloading the file will be slower. If 100 people all came to the site and downloaded the MP3 at the same time, the website hosting transfers would be extremely slow. If the website hosting company wanted to decrease the time it took to download files simultaneously, it could increase the bandwidth of their internet connection (at a cost due to upgrading equipment).

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Web Hosting Bandwidth. Each time you visit a web site, you are creating traffic on your website hosting account, because in order to view that web page on your computer, the web page is first downloaded to your computer (between the web site on your website hosting space and you) which is then displayed using your browser software (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) .

How Much Bandwidth Is Enough? It depends (don't you hate that answer). But in truth, it does. Since bandwidth is a significant determinant of web hosting plan prices, you should take time to determine just how much website hosting bandwith is right for you. Almost all website hosting plans have bandwidth requirements measured in months, so you need to estimate the amount of bandwidth that will be required by your site on a monthly basis. Usually, website hosting plans offer bandwidth in terms of Gigabytes (GB) per month.

Most personal or small business sites will not need more than 1GB of website hosting bandwidth per month. If you have a web site on your website hosting space that is composed of static web pages and you expect little website hosting traffic to your site on a daily basis, go with a low website hosting bandwidth plan. If you go over the amount of website hosting bandwidth allocated in your plan, your website hosting company could charge you over usage fees, so if you think the traffic to your site will be significant, you may want to go through the calculations above to estimate the amount of bandwidth required in a website hosting plan.