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[Hawken]

Does uploading files from my computer to the FTP server take up bandwidth? I have a go daddy account and the limit is 10 GB's a month and what I want to upload is 14.1 GBs.

[cywkevin]

yes, ftp transfer counts. Are you sure that limit is correct? Godaddy usually gives out 250 Gb and up

[Hawken]

I think I mis wrote what I meant. The total storage of the account is indeed 250 GB. However, the bandwidth for the website is 10 GBs. Does transfering files from my computer to the ftp server take up bandwidth on the web site?

[anon-e-mouse]

So both the ISP and the host record the bandwidth?

[taylorwilsdon]

Originally Posted by Hawken

I think I mis wrote what I meant. The total storage of the account is indeed 250 GB. However, the bandwidth for the website is 10 GBs. Does transfering files from my computer to the ftp server take up bandwidth on the web site?

You're confusing yourself. They don't offer less bandwidth then space, its the other way around. Your account can't physically hold 14GB space, just 10.

[cywkevin]

We're on two separate pages. Jan the ISP usually counts your inbound and outbound bandwidth. He's asking if godaddy will count the inbound file transfer as part of his transfer quota to which i said yes, it will. Depending on his contract he might have an unmetered account with his ISP (how the majority of US ISP's work) so there wouldn't be an overage charge.

So for this transaction:

ISP measures outbound transfer
Host measures inbound

[butleger]

Are you sure the host mesures only an inbound traffic?

[eddy2099]

Yes, both upload and download bandwidth are counted.

I am looking at GoDaddy Hosting Plans https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosti...?se=%2B&ci=260 and all their bandwidths are more than disk space.

Did you quote your bandwidth and diskspace mixed up ?

The 5gb Disk Space Plan comes with 250gb Bandwidth. The 100gb Disk Space Plan comes with 1,000gb Bandwidth and so on.