Hello, i'm new to hosting! please help me. (umm I meant Bandwidth in the topic) Let's say I put some links of youtube videos on my site. Question: Is it counted as my Bandwidth when someone watches youtube video through my site? What about pictures! If I link all pictures to my site instead of directly putting them on my site. Will it reduce the Bandwidth or will all linked pictures be counted in by bandwidth? Thank you, rush4rk
If you embed the youtube videos using their html code, then they will pick up the bandwidth. Basically, you will only pay for the bandwidth for any files which are physically on your own server. As for the images, if you link to someone else's server - that is known as leaching as is very, very bad.
hmm! what if I put all my pictures to some free website and link them to the main site. does it worth it? Do you think 2 TB per month is enough for picture oriented website? hmm 500 pictures x 50kb each on OK populated site. oh one more thing! Web hosting company gives: Monthly Bandwidth at signup 2 TB is it Terabyte or Terabites? ^.^ Automatically Increases Weekly By: 16 GB <-- what would this line mean? Thank you