Hi,

My question is maybe stupid but I really want to learn more about bandwidth. How do you count bandwidth? Is it the amount of hits my site have multiplied with the page sizes?

If I for example run a ffa submitter on my page does it require a lot of bandwidth or is it just consuming CPU time?

Is it true that a webhost may kick you out for consuming to much CPU time?

Only one more question, I've heard that below10host are a great host is that true?

Please help me out,
Thank you,
Cypher

Cypher, your correct on the formula for bandwidth.

An ffa submitter will probably consume more CPU than bandwidth.

It's true most hosts will kick you off for too much CPU usage.

below10host seems good to me as I contacted them, multiple times and they respond quickly.

And the page size is not just the size of the HTML/ASP/CGI/etc. page, the size of the downloaded page includes all the images and multimedia (if any) linked to that page that is downloaded when they go to that URL.


You probably knew that but just want to make sure :)

Heres a good site for all sorts of info!
About bandwidth, take a look here http://www.hosthelp.com/sizematters.php

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HostCaters--We Cater Hosting
www.hostcaters.com (http://www.hostcaters.com)

Remember that bandwidth isn't just what's going out from your site, but what's coming in as well. E-mail also figures into bandwidth.

A good definition of bandwidth is any traffic generated by the domain name, whether that be FTP, E-mail, Telnet or HTTP.


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Mike Astin
WebAuthorities
http://www.webauthorities.com

Do you hosting companies (excuse the poor grammar, I'm English :)) actually measure the bandwidth from email received/sent, ftp, and other protocols? I was under the assumption that it was just http (port:80) out-going? If not doesn't that create all sorts of problems, e.g. how do you measure email out-going if sendmail only authenticates by IP (which will be the same internal)?