The Impact of Hosting Bandwidth on Your Website

By Justin Knights

There are many things or features that will affect the performance of a website. To discuss in detail, we will discuss about one feature which is one of the major feature that keep the website running smooth, the bandwidth. Bandwidth is simply the amount of data transferable through your website.

As you have guessed, the mount of data transferred is referred as traffic in web hosting. Traffic refers to the amount of visitors that comes to your website or the amount of hits you receive in your website. Every time a visitor hits on your website, they download a certain amount of information and that is what is being calculated as traffic.

Therefore, if your website is based more on text, the files in size is lesser and you will be able to receive more traffic compared to a website which is filled with photos or images which takes up more space with bigger files. The more graphics you have in your website, the bigger the traffic is for your website.

So, whether or not the traffic has an effect on the performance of your website will depend on the web hosting provider. Every package provided has a certain amount of bandwidth entitled to that particular website. The amount of bandwidth needed will depend on the design of the website. Hosting companies usually gives you a choice of how much bandwidth you want, it may be 1GB or some other amount. 1GB equals 1000MB and with that amount of bandwidth, you could have an idea what type of website will work fine.

Try to predict the amount of bandwidth you will nee and add a little more to your prediction just to be safe. If you are building a new website for the first time, you could go here visit: http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/windows/filesize1.shtml to have estimation on how much of bandwidth you need. To be safe, start with a basic web hosting package and upgrade as time goes by.

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