Differences: Metered, Un-metered and Un-limited Bandwidth

When you plan to host a website, you browse through different hosting choices and individual plans. From Shared Hosting to self-managed Dedicated or VPS Hosting, the choices are many. Considering that you have successfully passed the first step and picked a hosting type for your business, the next debate starts when you need to choose a package for the same.

Even with a basic kind of Web Hosting, say Shared Server Hosting, every host would offer multiple plans that differ in terms of space, disk access, and bandwidth. While others might be a known term, bandwidth often creates confusion – whether you should opt for a metered bandwidth plan, an unmetered or an unlimited plan.

Before that, what exactly is bandwidth? In simple terms, bandwidth is the amount allocated for transferring of data. Suppose that you have purchased a plan that offers a bandwidth of 60mbps. This implies … Read the rest