If you have your own site, a very crucial thing to be aware of is bandwidth. In a nutshell, bandwidth simply refers to the amount of information you’re able to transfer at a specific time.
When you have less bandwidth, your site takes longer to load regardless of what connection your visitors have. With more visitors, each visitor is going to have to wait his or her turn if you don’t have enough bandwidth to accommodate everyone. You have to know how much bandwidth you need while choosing hosting plans.
Anyone claiming to provide unlimited bandwidth or monthly transfer is not being completely honest. Nobody can have unlimited bandwidth. Unlimited Bandwidth is a myth.
I have not seen the option of unlimited megabytes per second. There are various web hosting companies which don’t have access lines of its own but even then promises clients that unlimited bandwidth can be provided, how is it possible?
Most of the time, high bandwidth sites on these unlimited plans will be disconnected, and no refund given. Normally, the web hosting company will say that the site violated its acceptable use policy or terms of service.
Whenever you visit a site promoting unlimited bandwidth as one of the account features, be sure to visit the Acceptable Use Policy, or the Terms of Service. Read the fine text about the so called Unlimited disclaimer.
When you first look for web hosting services (those who state clearly bandwidth offered), you have to make your best estimation and watch your usage carefully in the first few months. Take these factors into consideration while estimating. How many users will access your web site? How many pages to be access? How big are the graphic and HTML files?
Large multimedia files, computer programs, and file downloads require more bandwidth. Flash web sites use tons of bandwidth. Virtual Reality and full length three dimensional presentations require the most bandwidth of all.
Though it is not accurate, but still gives you something to work with until your site has been online for a while and actual traffic statistics have been generated. Don’t fall for the unlimited bandwidth trap that some companies throw at you.