| | Following is part of an article to help you understand Bandwidth usage. Helpful Information..... | 1024 bytes = 1 k (kilobyte)
1024k (kilobytes) = 1 mg (megabyte)
1024 mg (megabytes) = 1 G (gigabyte) |
The amount of bandwidth you are allowed each month by your web host is a measure of the data transfer between your website and the computers of the people using that website.
Let's say your page has 400kbs of pictures and text on it. When a person views your page they download 400kbs of information to their computer (it goes into their Temporary Internet files) i.e. they have transferred 400kbs of data. That amount is deducted from your bandwidth allowance.
If they download some of your backgrounds, presets, objects etc - again, the measure of that file (in kilobytes or megabytes) is
transferred from your site to their computer and deducted from your bandwidth allowance.
If they write you an email via your site-based email address, use a form - or Guestbook - or any such item - they use up your bandwidth.
If you upload files from YOUR computer to the site - again it is data transfer and you use up part of your bandwidth allowance.
If someone direct-links to one of your images on your site - the data is pulled down from YOUR site - and so once again uses up YOUR bandwidth and you may have to pay. Simple text links to your site from other people's computers do NOT use up bandwidth but as soon as someone clicks on one of those links and comes to your site, it DOES.
The fact of the matter is, that the servers (computers) that hold the files of websites can only transfer so much data - if one site starts to use too much data transfer it affects the other sites on that server - they slow down. Therefore web hosts have to estimate how much bandwidth can be allotted to each site, depending on how many sites they want to put on the server. They usually give enough (and more) for the average site to run. | |
