subject: What Is Hosting Bandwidth? [print this page] The traffic or data that is transferred to and from your website refers to hosting bandwidth. All types of traffic are included in this, like FTP traffic, images loading, hot-linked images loading, web views etc.
Most hosting accounts measure bandwidth differently than they describe it. Bandwidth allowances are measured in gigabytes. There may be a web hosting plan that offers 1000GB which is also referred to as 1 Terabyte.1000GB is not actually 1 TB. It is infact quite less. 1 TB is closer to 1024 GB. In web hosting, 24 GB is a substantial amount to burn through.
The amount of bandwidth used by you can be checked for most web hosting providers by logging into your control panel and seeing the hosting storage and hosting bandwidth usage information. The current usage will be represented by a percentage of the total allocation for the month.
If you own a website there are a number of things you can do to make sure that your web pages load quickly hence preventing you from using up all of your monthly bandwidth. The main thing is to check the document, image and file sizes that can be downloaded from your site. Make them as small as possible. If there are a number of files to be downloaded in a group, then it would be better to download them as a zip file. This will make it a single file to download and since it is in a compressed format, the download will also be faster. Make sure the images on your website have smaller resolutions and are optimized. These little things can help you save a lot of bandwidth per month.
