Bandwidth
What is bandwidth? Why we need it? Why bandwidth becomes important when we host our site? After reading this article you will find answer of all these questions.

What is bandwidth?
Bandwidth is defined as the data transfer or pass through a connection in give time. The measurement unit of bandwidth is bits per second shortly bps, bits are the smallest unit of measurement; relative high units are used such as Mega bits per second Mbps.

Some web hosting companies use data transfer rate instead of bandwidth. In the hosting industry the term data transfer is more important then bandwidth. The data transfer means the data that is transmitted from your web server (web site) to the visitor, browsing your web site. The measurement of data transfer is very crucial, as the accurate calculation will give you the actual data transfer rate, keeping in mind this data transfer you will select bandwidth for your web site.

The data transfer can be understood through this example. Let suppose you design a website with five pages. The size of each page is approximately 50 kb. When a visitor opens your home page or another page, then 1 x 50 = 50 kb data is transferred from your web server to this visitor. If this visitor visits all your pages then 5 x 50 = 250 kb data is transferred from your web server to this user. If hundred visitors daily visit all your web pages then 250 x 100= 25,000 kb data is transferred daily from your web server to the visitors. Now multiple this daily calculations with 30 days, then you will get approximation of monthly data transfer rate or required bandwidth for your web site. Remember that this is only the approximation, you will required more bandwidth in order to operate your web server properly, you will use e-mail accounts, FTP protocol and upload and download web sites, all these consume more bandwidth as compared to visit a page.

Some web hosting companies offers unlimited bandwidth, is this unlimited bandwidth plan is good or not? This web hosting plan is not good for your site. Nothing unlimited in hosting world, all these things are limited, because nothing is free in this world. Bandwidth is hardware dependent, and hardware is always limited. Simply a pip can only pass a limited amount of water through it, can you pass more water then the actual size of water. However the size can be increased. Web hosting companies also pay for bandwidth to bandwidth service providers and bandwidth is very expensive. So keep away your web site from unlimited web hosting, may be it is too limited that your web site is down when more then 50 visitors visit your site at a time. If you are using shared web hosting, then there bandwidth is also shared between the users, if your website consuming more bandwidth, then they will block your site. Some good web hosting companies like Omnilinkservices offers you handy bandwidth plan for shared web hosting, nothing is free but Omnilinkservices web hosting company make bandwidth free. If you sign up our web hosting plan then you will get very handy bandwidth free as it include in the hosting package. Is it not cool!!