Posts Tagged ‘bandwidth’

Bandwidth Bandits

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Files that are loaded to or from servers uses internet bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your ISP, surf the web or use an audio application, you are using bandwidth.?

Bandwidth is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to a network. Depending on the grade of the wire it determines how much data is coming across the network where your web-site is hosted. When someone attempts to get more data than can be handled by the network, the whole network slows down.

ISP’s can put a limitation on bandwidth at certain times during peak periods or charge you a flat fee per month for bandwidth usage. If you go over the flat fee, then they charge you extra for using extra bandwidth. Some ISP’s will shut down the transmissions until traffic is more stable on the network.

You can load most files (images, sound files, videos and flash scripts and other programs) in your web site. This excludes, of course, banners and pop ups and specific documents and images which are supposed to be loaded from a central server.?

Bandwidth bandits link to images and other files directly to some other server instead of putting them on their local server. There are various reasons as to why they do this but one reason is to get as much bandwidth as possible to show their links and images.
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There’s certain ways that you can stop the person from stealing your bandwidth allocation. If they have an email, I would contact them personally or go through Network Solutions and do an IP lookup which will give you information on the person and who the site is registered to. You can always get in touch with the company that hosts their site too.

Bandwidth can be expensive and the last thing that you want is someone stealing it.

What Amount of Hosting Do You Need?

Friday, March 27th, 2009

As people look into hosting bandwidth and space is available cheaper than most can imagine.  This can confuse many because they are not sure how much they actually need for their use.

So we are here today to talk about how to rationalize what you exactly need in web hosting.  After reading this you will be able to purchase a package that is inline in what you need.

First up is how big is your web site going to be.  At first your site is going to be smaller than you ever imagine.  I know you are thinking all those shinny graphics and video you want to put on your site.  But be realistic in web hosting first making those are harder than you can imagine and second you don’t want to make your website so big it is hard for people to download. Remember there are many on the internet still not on fast access.  Your website at biggest will probably be under 500k.  This let you purchase web space in line with your needs.

The next question is the amount of visitors you will get.  A goal of 1,000 visitors would be plenty.  This can be hard but done if you catch a break on the way.  After that you can just take your site size and use a 1,000 as your guideline and you can figure out the bandwidth you need. 
For most it is less than they thought.  Now you can overlook those larger packages that you will not need when starting off.  Purchase enough to get started and to have some expansion and then upgrade your web hosting when the time is right. 

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