Data transfer, sometimes referred to as bandwidth, refers to the amount of information passed to and from your website.
Whenever somebody looks at a page on your website, information is transferred. This is measured in megabytes (MB).
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The bigger the files are on your website, the more information will be transferred.
You can estimate the amount of data your website will transfer in a month by calculating the size, in kilobytes (KB), of an average page request, and multiplying it by the number of page views your website will receive in a month.
Unless you have a site like microsoft or you have 100 websites on one account. With Host Monster this thought shouldn't even cross your mind.
If you have an web page with 5 photos, it might all add up to 250kb.
Let’s say your website receives, on average, 100 visitors per day. This equates to 3000 visitors per month and a total data transfer amount of 750MB.
So lets step it up a little bit.
Let's say you have 100 pages and 10,000 visitors a day, each page being hit and averaging 100kb.
Per day that would be 10,000 MB or 10 Gigs. So, 300 Gigs per month.
Now that's a lot of visitors and a large site.
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So you could run 50 websites of that size we just discussed. WOW
Some Web hosts’ data transfer offerings vary greatly, and can be between a tiny 500MB/month and 15,000 GB/month.
Providers not located in the United States will usually have much tighter limits on data transfers .
Beware of hosts with tiny limits and extra charges. I just stick with Host Monster becuase I know I will never go wanting for bandwidth
