Understanding Bandwidth
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transferred from your Website to the world in a given period of time. In the Web hosting industry, this time period usually is one month. We provide a generous amount of bandwidth, but if you go over this amount, then you end up paying an extra fee.
50 gigabytes of bandwidth is quite a bit. For example, if the total size of all the files on your website was 1 megabyte, if someone visited every page in the website they would use 1 megabyte of bandwidth. 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes, so you would be able to have 50,000 people visit every page on your site in a month.
Bandwidth becomes more of an issue if you have large files such as video or audio that people download.
Accessing Bandwidth Info
To access Bandwidth information, log in to SiteControl, select the Manage Services tab, and click on the Stats and Usage link:
Then, on the Stats & Usage page, click on the Bandwidth link:
Viewing Bandwidth Information
On the Bandwidth page, information on the bandwidth used is displayed automatically, in bytes.
- 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte
- 1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
- 1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
To view more detailed information, you can select a different beginning date and end date and clicking the View Stats button.
