How Much Bandwidth / Monthly Transfer Do You Need?Bandwidth is the measurement of the amount of data transmitted over an internet connection in a given time. The majority of web hosting companies will set monthly limits. Some of these hosts will allow overselling which means your site will remain up but you receive a bill for the extra amount used others will simply pull the plug until next month.
Bandwidth explained:

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users.

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How much storage space and bandwidth will you need for your website? This is a question that you will need to answer before deciding on your web site hosting.You’ll need to look at the content that you’ll be hosting on your site. Is it just plain text? Images? Audio and video files?

Plain text takes the least amount of space. Images take considerably more and audio and video files will need the most space. This applies to both the storage and the bandwidth.

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Cheap phone calls - we all want them. The good news is that recent advances in internet technology have made it easy for us to get them. There are dozens of providers who offer an internet telephony service, but how do we choose the right one? Before we get to the specifics, let’s have a look at what VOIP is and how it works. Read the rest of this entry »

It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t; it’s an actual business. And the more you think about it, the more sense it makes. Internet access via the sewer lines has a lot to recommend it, as H2O Networks demonstrated recently with yet another customer win.Aficionados of Google or the peculiar way April Fools’ Day is celebrated online may remember this year’s stunt by the search engine giant. Dubbed Google TiSP (BETA), the company unveiled a new “service” that offered free broadband Internet access to its users via cables flushed down the toilet and connected to a node by one of Google’s hard-working Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs). Many web surfers had a good laugh over this joke; Google even went so far as to build a Google help group for TiSP users where they could continue the humor.

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You just received a higher than normal monthly bill on your credit card for web hosting. Your hosting company explains that you exceeded your monthly minimum for “bandwidth usage” and suggests reducing the size of your web site files.

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Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of data passing through a network at a given time. Things like huge images on web pages and needless questions posted to Usenet newsgroups waste bandwidth which could be better utilized for transferring information.

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Choosing a web host is a tricky business, there are so many companies out there all offering you incredible packages, but do you really know what it is they are offering you? Read the rest of this entry »

What do you do when an ISP providers’ level of service has decreased or the provider has just closed shop? You don’t panic; all you have to do is switch to a new provider. If you know how these ISP services work, then switching over to a new provider will not be as rough or bad as you think. All it takes is having a contingency plan. Read the rest of this entry »