I have been preaching it day after day for too many years now, but there are still folks signing up for Web hosting for all the wrong reasons. I hate to shatter anybody’s bubble out there, but there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth or unlimited disc space. Every Web hosting server has a limit, and these phrases are nothing more than sales talk when you are shopping for a Web hosting account.

I ran across a good article though that pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole unlimited problem in the Web hosting industry. They call it a “scam” but I don’t know if I could go that far. Many hosts use the phrasing, but if you look close enough they will let you know what your limits really are. Maybe I am an unfair judge since I can see both sides of this issue as well.

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page he/she downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from the server on which your files are stored for the computer of users.

If your site is not very huge and you do not have any audio/video downloads and it’s not very popular i.e. not a lot of people visit your site then you do not really require a lot of bandwidth, on a average a web site uses up only 500 MB of bandwidth per month. Or if your site is small but extremely popular then you might have to go for a web hosting package that offers high bandwidth.

On the other hand if your web site is huge, providing audio/video downloads, as well as being very popular then you would certainly require a huge amount of bandwidth. Let’s say you have a video file that is 150 MB in size and in a single day a 100 visitors download the file. This means that 15 GB of bandwidth will have been used. If you multiply that by 30 days for the month it comes to 450 GB.

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