Bandthwidth question

[NSolano]

I am starting to get a little confused about bandwidth. The service provider for hosting gives me like 10 GB of bandwidth, I understand that means that it is access to my site, like only a certain amount of users are allowed to view my site until it reaches 10 GB. I dont' understand waht datecenters measure for the web hosting companies. They say they give them like 1MB/sec of bandwidth. Can anyone explain to me what this all means, and if i can get a better deal.

 

[NSolano]

ooops made a spelling error, I meant Bandwidth, sorry if i confused anyone.

 

[CoolClark]

The 10gb is the total amount of data that can be downloaded before you start getting charged extra and 1mb/sec is the speed at which it can be downloaded.

 

[NSolano]

so you are saying that if get a lot of activity and my download activity goes to 20GB, the provider will need to buy more speed in order to keep my speed the same?? ok I think i understand.

 

[CoolClark]

In practice, no. Your provider should have enough bandwidth (download speed) to support your website exceding it's download limit. The 10gb download limit is their way of charging you. Theoretically at 1mb/sec they could support a download of 86gb per day (1mb*60sec*60minutes*24hours)

 

[NSolano]

i understand that, I meant as me being the owner of the webhosting company. Let's say i have 100 customers, and each has like 1GB of bandwidth per day. That means that 100GB per day, so I would need to ask the database center that host my servers to give me more speed?? Is this correct.

 

[CoolClark]

Yes.

 

[cdogg]

Just a side note that download speeds are rated in MB/sec (Megabytes per sec) and Mb/sec (Megabits per sec). Most often, you are reading megabits per second which is a standard measurement in bandwidth terms. As most of you know, there are 8 bits in a byte, so 1 Mb/sec is roughly equivalent to 122 Kilobytes/sec.

So, in CoolClark's equation, he should've got 8.6GB instead of 86GB. That would come to approx 1.8GB (8.6/8)...

Sorry to be so darn critical!


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[CoolClark]

I stand corrected