Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data, measured in Megabytes per month that clients may transfer due to any traffic originating from or going to their website. A large part of this traffic is web traffic (website visitors), but can also be FTP (file uploads), Anonymous FTP (file downloads), and even email services. Again, the more bandwidth allowed, the better!

All clients are allowed to use 25Gb per month as long as their content is in accordance with our Acceptable Uses Policy. For virtually all websites our limit of 25Gb will never be reached in any month.

Unfortunately, some hosting providers claim to offer an unlimited amount of traffic. They are forced to cut-off high traffic, popular websites when their bandwidth is depleted. These providers have created a controversy around the "unlimited bandwidth" claim. We continue to provide 25Gb bandwidth, without discrimination. How? We have 3 diverse DS-3 connections on our very own network. Not being co-located and having peering agreements with major carriers allow us to obtain more bandwidth with a simple telephone call. In short, there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth on a co-located network.

This is a common concern that we publicly address. While we, and anyone else for that matter, has a limited amount of bandwidth, it is important that we have access to more when needed. First, we are able to increase our bandwidth available with a simple telephone call. Secondly, we have 3 diverse DS-3 lines from different carriers, so bandwidth not only is available when needed, but from different sources. Finally, it is statistics which always prevail and show that while some clients will end up consuming more than their monthly fee worth of bandwidth every month, an overwhelming majority of clients do not. In the future, bandwidth will continue to get cheaper which works to our advantage.

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