Bandwidth and data transfer are two terms you may frequently come across in web hosting.These two terms are closely related, but have different meanings.

When you talk about bandwidth, it is the amount of data that can be transferred at a time.However in the case of data transfer, it is the amount of data that is actually being transferred.Web hosting companies however use the term bandwidth to advertise how much of data they let you transfer in a month.

When you go through the plans offered by web hosting companies, you will find some of them measuring the amount of bandwidth your site can use.It is the number of gigabytes that the company will offer you in a month that is displayed in this amount.So if a company offers you 5 GB per month, the amount of data transfer that takes place in your site should not exceed 5 GB.

There are many web hosting companies that lure customers with ‘unlimited bandwidth’.However you usually find many rules leading to limitations of their bandwidth after you go through the terms and conditions of the company.

One such rule of most web hosting companies is the provision of unlimited bandwidth to you only with acceptable usage. However it is only later on that you find that this ‘acceptable usage’ is basically less than the arbitrary amount of bandwidth you are allotted every month.Once you exceed this limit, you have to pay a surcharge.

Then there are some web hosting companies that pose restrictions on the type of site you can offer.While some web hosting companies don’t let you use graphics and heavy page on the site, there are some web hosting companies that have limitations on the number of pages you use on your site.It is only if you are sure you can stick to the restrictions set by these plans for not only the present, but also the future should you use these plans.

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