Hi, I'm looking for a host and everywhere i see 5gb, 10gb, 2gb bandwicth aka data transfer.

I know that it means something about how many people come you your website but i dont know how much is 5gb. How big if a diffrence is between 2gb and 5gb?

Lets say a website receives 100 unique hits each day and each person downloads a 2mb file. Will 5gb be enough?

Could someone explain to me this data transfer business?

Thanks in advance

Adam

100 Unique downloads per day of a 2MB file would be ~6GB per month of "data transfer".

Most hosts will count all traffic coming to and from your account as data transfer.

It's best to add a little head room to give your site room to grow. If your site was the scenerio above (~6GB per month) it would make good sense to purchase at least 8GB of data transfer.

To sum that up even more:

This is a very rough way to look at it. I.E. in reality 1,024 bytes is the same as 1 kilobyte. However for simplicities sake we are going to call it 1,000.

Ok.

1000 Bytes is a KiloByte.

1000 KiloBytes is a MegaByte or in other words a mega byte is 1,000,000 Bytes.

1000 MegaBytes is a GigaByte..

I think by now you are probably getting the picture.

So you have a 2 meg file that will be downloaded 100 times per day. 100 x 2 = 200 or 200 megs per day.

There are 30 days in a month so: 30 x 200 = 6000 MegaBytes which as we know converts into as the person above said: 6GBs.

Basically you can't really compare how much bandwidth you have available to a certain amount of hits. It all depends on file sizes etc. If you have very large images on each page then you will get much less hits per gig of bandwidth compared to the other person who has no images on each page.

For more information you can visit:
http://familyinternet.about.com/library/weekly/aa052401a.htm

I hope all of this helped.

Regards,
Michael

also, its bandwidth, not bandwicth......heh


after gigabyte its terabyte then petabyte......heh

thx guys, you helped alot :)

If you are hosting your e-mail with the company, then remember that any transfer via POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail should be counted towards your monthly transfer.

Originally posted by KS9
also, its bandwidth, not bandwicth......heh


after gigabyte its terabyte then petabyte......heh

Then, from standard mathematical geometry, the next figure should be hexabyte, followed by heptabyte and then octabyte, etc... :stickout :stickout :D :D :D