Web Hosting Explained - Bandwidth/Space/Transfer

What is Bandwidth, Space and Transfer in Web hosting?

Web hosting is a specialized service of IT, which provides infrastructure for hosting and running websites on Internet.

If you are trying to purchase Hosting space then you will come across with the following terms:

• Bandwidth
• Web Space
• Transfer

Let's see all these one by one:

Bandwidth:

If you website is accessed thousands of times per day then there will be huge amount of data transfer from website to the users of your website. As images, text and video size is big and these data is sent from your server. So, Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred from your server, it includes both incoming and out going traffic.

Web Space:

The web space is the amount of hard disk space of your hosting server assigned to your hosting account. It can 10MB to several GBs based on your requirement and you website content.

Transfer:

This is the amount of actual data transferred from/to your server.

View tutorial at: Web Hosting Bandwidth/Space/Transfer.

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