Bandwidth is amount of data transfer that you are allowed to have for a hosting package i.e. Let’s say you have a web page that is 48KB in size, now each time a user opens your site and goes to that page S/he downloads 48 KB of information on to their computer. If a 100 users view that page one time each then there has been a total of 4800 KB of data transferred from server on which your files are stored for computer of users.

Size of web Page: 48 KB Number of users who viewed web page: 100 Total amount of data transferred: 48KB * 100 = 4800 KB

Bandwidth is term that is used to denote amount of data that has been transferred from your web space.

The amount of bandwidth that you require while choosing a host depends on two factors:

> The size of your site. > The popularity of your site.

If your site is not very huge and you do not have any audio/video downloads and it’s not very popular i.e. not a lot of people visit your site then you do not really require a lot of bandwidth, on a average a web site uses up only 500 MB of bandwidth per month. Or if your site is small but extremely popular then you might have to go for a web hosting package that offers high bandwidth.

On other hand if your web site is huge, providing audio/video downloads, as well as being very popular then you would certainly require a huge amount of bandwidth. Let’s say you have a video file that is 150 MB in size and in a single day a 100 visitors download file. This means that 15 GB of bandwidth will have been used. If you multiply that by 30 days for month it comes to 450 GB.

The unlimited bandwidth controversy

For some time now a lot of hosting companies are supposedly providing "unlimited bandwidth" for their web hosting packages.

It’s absolutely true, you can have unlimited bandwidth. However, you will need an unlimited amount of money by your side! Jokes apart, if you ever come across such a host it would be best to turn around and run back way you came from.

I was sitting at my comp and reading articles from latest issue of Axandra, and what I discovered was quite... well, startling, though not surprising. It is true that when you are huge, you become an easy target. I am sure we would not forget how skinny looking college kid outran his big bully. True, big brother might have strength and power, but what’s use if he can't get a hold of Mr. Skinny?

What we read today about Internet industry, is more or less true. While Google quickly grew from small to big, it has to retain its position. But, they say it’s lonely at top. And it sure looks lonely from top, especially from Google, with MSN, Yahoo showing out that they are really serious and mean what they say. Personally, I really prefer MSN's search as compared to my once favorite Google. Ok, you might get an idea that I am biased. Far from it, perhaps a little bit of reading between lines is what might make you a bit queasy.

Yahoo! set to celebrate its 10th anniversary

Co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo parlayed Yahoo Inc. from a college hobby into a full-time job 10 years ago, but Internet icon was never quite comfortable with happy-go-lucky mood of dot-com boom. It's not that Yang and Filo don't like to have fun. After all, they gave their company a name often associated with rubes and adopted a joyful yodel as their calling card. Yahoo has grown from a handful of employees to more than 7,600 workers today, but Moore said company's "work hard, play hard" culture has remained intact.

There's a similar ethic going on a few miles to north at Google Inc., a fierce rival that Yang and Filo helped inspire. Yahoo doesn't pamper its workers as extravagantly as Google, which feeds its employees breakfast, lunch and dinner and even arranges to have their oil changed for free. No one eats for free at Yahoo, although company subsidizes cafeteria prices. Yahoo is also inviting all registered users in United States to download a coupon for a free scoop of ice cream on March 2 from Baskin-Robbins in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

In other words, there's a very subtle message hidden here. A message Yahoo! is giving out to everyone, and more specifically to Google.

"Watch Out, we're coming for you."

The Google toolbar- Devil in disguise?

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Now there's nothing wrong about Google, in giving out free meals or pampering its employees. However, underlying fact remains that it needs to really focus and improve its services if it wants to really be at top. However, a few mistakes happen here and there like "New Google Toolbar" Well, i'm not drawing any conclusions here. But, matter of fact is that it sure does give out a negative impact to its audience.

The SEO Blog complains that Google has lost its cool and become evil. The site says that Webmasters and search marketers should be concerned about prospect of a Google tool changing their websites. Now let’s not get paranoid about this and set aside our critic hats for a while and give Google some more time to explain.

However, it is quite disturbing to note that if a web-user was to try to purchase a book from Barnes and Nobel while using new toolbar, a link to rival Amazon.com would be added to view's version of Barnes and Noble site as soon as book's ISBN appeared. There was a uproar about this when Microsoft tried to introduce similar SmartTags back in 2001. Although Vole didn’t go ahead with scheme, Jeff Reynar, who designed it, now works at Google.

Now, you might not be a Barnes & Noble, but if you sure are into business of selling something which has a probability that it is listed on Amazon, be sure that Google toolbar will surely take punch out of our website.

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