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How To Reduce Web Hosting Bandwidth
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost

Best Web Hosting You just received a higher than normal monthly bill on your
credit card for web hosting. Your hosting company explains
that you exceeded your monthly minimum for "bandwidth
usage" and suggests reducing the size of your web site
files.

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What does bandwidth mean?
How much bandwidth do you need?
How can you reduce bandwidth usage?

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Web Site Design And Hosting What is "bandwidth usage?"
This refers to the total amount of information that has been
served to your web site visitors each month. Every file on
your Web Site has a specific size (e.g. 22K). Every time a
visitor downloads that file, your bandwidth usage goes up
by that amount.

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Email Web Hosting The larger the file, the higher the bandwidth usage when
it is downloaded. The more traffic to your site, the more
bandwidth you will use.
What does "bandwidth" mean?
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted
in a fixed amount of time. The "data transfer rate" is the speed
with which data can be transmitted from one device to another.
Data rates are often measured in megabits (million bits) or
megabytes (million bytes) per second.
These are usually abbreviated as Mbps and Mbps, respectively.

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Web Hosting Plans Bits and Bytes
8 bits = 1 byte.
1,024 bytes = 1 kilobyte (Kb).
1,024 kilobytes (Kb) = 1 megabyte (mb or meg)
1,024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (gb or gig)
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file size of each web page, and then multiply it by the number
of pages on your web site.

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views you expect per month from your site.

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and 3Kb of html, you would have 33Kb of data for that
page. Now multiply this by the number of page views you
expect to have per month (e.g. 100,000 per month). This
would mean 3.3Gb of data needs to be transferred per month
for that page.

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approximately how much bandwidth your entire site requires.

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Cheapest Web Host The easy way is to reduce the size of the files on your site,
particularly images and other graphics. For example, you have
a large image (i.e. 200KB) on your web page that is downloaded
by each visitor every time the page is requested. If you
reduce this image to 20KB or remove it altogether, it will
dramatically cut your bandwidth usage. It will also speed
up your site's performance.

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my article, "Preparing Images for Your Web Site",

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in the background and large images, will obviously have a
higher bandwidth. Large web sites or sites that expect a
lot of traffic, will also use a lot.

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bandwidth will not be that high.

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If you make changes to your site by adding
more files and/or web pages, recalculate your web site
file size.

Cheap Web Hosting Estimate how many visitors will be accessing your web pages
over the next few months.

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more web space and bandwidth for your site to function
effectively.

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hosting plan.

Reliable Web Host Conclusion
Now you can avoid the shock of exceeding your
monthly bandwidth usage and paying higher hosting fees.
You are now ready to receive more traffic to your site and
therefore make more sales.

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Article reproduced with kind permission from Herman Drost

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