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Answer 1)Bandwidth is what allows people to access your website.
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Answer 2)Every time someone views your web page all of the data (html code, text, graphics, etc.) within the page must
be transferred from your web server into the visitor's computer via the internet where it is viewed by a web
browser. This data transfer is known as 'bandwidth'. The amount of data transfer a hosting customer uses is
related to the number of visitors to their site, multiplied by the size of their web pages. Graphics and other
multimedia files account for the vast majority of data transfer used. This becomes apparent when you consider
that the average text page consists of only of about 5 Kb of data, while images can be as large as 50-200 Kb
in size - and many images are often incorporated into each web page. Flash files are often very large, along
with audio and video files. Live audio and video feeds can also be bandwidth hogs. A 3 minute MP3 file equals
apx.3 megs per view! Bandwidth & data transfer to a large degree are synonymous. There are 3 major factors to
take into account:
1. The amount of traffic you receive
2. The size of your site
3. The types of files offered on your site.
How is transfer measured?
Formula: page size x page views X 30days=Bandwidth
Transfer Page size:You have 10KB of text,60 KB of gifs would equal a per page size of 70K.
Page views: you have 60 vistors that look at 4 pages per day equals 240 views a day. 70x240x30(days)=504,000
kb or approximately 504 mb, of bandwidth each month.(10 megs gets 1 gig(1000mb) of transfer per mo.)
Realistically, based on average internet traffic, you could probably take quite a few more visitors as not
everyone views every single page on your site. The average personal to professional level site transfers 100 -
1,500MB per month.
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Answer 3)How much data can be transmitted in a time period over a communications channel, often expressed in kilobits
per second (kbps).
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Answer 4)Bandwidth is how we look at the amount of data that has gone in and out of your hosting account. Its also a
good way of measuring a sites activity, the more bandwidth used usually means a much more active site. This
can be wrong because you could have a site that deals in huge video files which would eat tons more bandwidth
than a site with a few small HTML files.
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