Hello Friends Bandwidth is amount of data transferred to and from a webhosting account. The most common examples of data transfer are: - Files and images being requested by your visitor's web browsers. - Files transferred to and from your domain using an FTP program. - Email messages received and sent from your domain. Thanks for reading
Have you noticed how web host advertise unlimited bandwith? That's because they know you'll never need that much anyway.
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Sorry, but that is wrong and misleading. Data Transfer is the amount of data transferred to and from a server as in the examples you provided above. Bandwidth is the size of the line that provides the data transfer such a 10mbps (10 mega bits per seconds) or 100mbps (100 mega bits per second). The larger the bandwidth, the more data it can transfer in a given period of time. I'll agree that sometimes these terms are used interchangeably by hosts with both terms being used to describe "data transfer", but if you want to provide a definition then it has to be accurate. If your bandwidth is provided over, say, a 10mbps line it cannot be unlimited in the strictest definition of the word (10mbps != unlimited mbps), and it can't be sold as "unlimited data transfer" either because the speed of the data is limited to 10mbps. A 10mbps connection could transfer approximately 3160GB of data at 100% utilization over a month, but since traffic ebbs-and-flows over the course of a day you will never reach 100% utilization.