Hello.

Most of the new people a bit confused to buy a hosting package. Among the matters specified in the package is bandwidth hosting. For this entry, I’d like to share some of the mistakes I’ve made before. It happen coz I just ignore the size of the bandwidth that really need for blog. Before continue my story, let’s share definition of bandwith in web hosting package.

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What is bandwith ?

There’s many definition but I like to refer this definition

Bandwith refers to the amount of data that transfers into and out web hosting account. Incoming data can include requests for web pages, email, FTP requests, and FTP uploads, while outgoing data includes file transfers, web pages, and email.

I think this short description will give you enough to understand about hosting bandwith.Back to the topic. Why you need to pay attention about hosting bandwith? It is important because if you get the wrong bandwith amount, you will lose money, traffic,etc.  This is my tips :-

1. Compare the bandwith package among hosting providers. Some of them give cheap package but their bandwith is very low.
2. Ask from other’s expertise about usage bandwith monthly. For beginner blogger, low amount bandwith as 10GB is enough but not for those blog/website that can get more than 1,000 visitor per day.
3. Get the hosting provider that can upgrade your bandwith directly. Some of hosting provider can’t upgrade your bandwith automatically. It is hard especially if your blog/website suddenly get huge traffic daily.
4. If you plann to develop many blog/website in same hosting, try an unlimited package for bandwith. There’s many hosting provider give unlimited bandwith in their package. It is good for long term project.

Okay, that’s all. I hope this basic information will give benefit to you. Thanks.

p/s :- I just found tips to reduce bandwith usage from CastIronHostingReview . It is good to save our bandwith usage..