What is Bandwidth?

Bandwidth is the traffic allowance of your hosting plan — every page view, download and image served counts against it. A text-heavy business site may use only a few gigabytes a month, while a site serving large photos or downloads can use far more. Many plans advertise 'unmetered' bandwidth: that means the host does not bill by the gigabyte, provided your use is normal website traffic rather than file streaming or backup storage. If you regularly approach the limit, upgrading a tier is the clean fix.

Also known as: traffic · data transfer