Hosting glossary
Bandwidth
In short: How much data your site can send to visitors each month.
Every page view, image and download uses data transfer. Hosts often call it bandwidth, though strictly that's the speed of the connection. Most small sites use far less than their plan allows.
On server plans, going over your allowance can cost extra per gigabyte, so check the overage price.
Also called
- Data transfer
- Transfer
- Traffic
See also: Shared vs VPS vs cloud hosting: which do you need?
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