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[IdioTeQue]

Is it a standard policy amongst hosts to consider all email traffic from your site pop accounts as traffic against your bandwith?

also what about the uploading of your webpages to your site being considered traffic against your bandwith?


and please nobody suggest going to an unlimited host cause I aint going out like that.

[ToastyX]

All data transfer has to be paid for, so why shouldn't POP and FTP count?

[tagalaxy.net]

yes, POP & FTP traffic traditionally count towards bandwidth
I've seen the odd host where inbound FTP doesnt count, but that is rare

[nmihosting]

Hi IdioTeQue,

Yes it is standard practice for email traffic and FTPing to count towards your bandwidth allocation. This is because, as ToastyX said, these activities use up bandwidth that host pays for from their ultimate provider.

Hope this is helpful.

[smacx]

It is standard but if your host is running cpanel then it doesn't count. I only get billed from my cpanel host for the http transfer, but I think this will be mended in a cpanel release soon

If they count traffic incomming and outgoing from the rounter, I.E if it's dedicated then yes all traffic counts.

[gnorthey00]

I believe that bandwidth is counted for everything regardless of Cpanel or not, I recollect in some cpanel I have/had used it counted bandwidth separate from the bandwidth charts I saw from the cpanel http analyze stats

[smacx]

Originally posted by gnorthey00
I believe that bandwidth is counted for everything regardless of Cpanel or not, I recollect in some cpanel I have/had used it counted bandwidth separate from the bandwidth charts I saw from the cpanel http analyze stats

Well then im ripping my host off a good 3 gigs, the meter in my virtual account doesn't count anything my http

[us0r]

Originally posted by IdioTeQue
Is it a standard policy amongst hosts to consider all email traffic from your site pop accounts as traffic against your bandwith?

also what about the uploading of your webpages to your site being considered traffic against your bandwith?


and please nobody suggest going to an unlimited host cause I aint going out like that.

Yes it should. POP, FTP, WEB they are all using bandwidth aren’t they?

And as far as the "unlimited bandwidth" hosts -- they are not so unlimited once you start pushing some traffic through them.