Bandwidth is the term used to measure the amount of data being transferred from your web space. When you access a web site, you are downloading a file. This file can be a web page, a GIF or JPG image, a MIDI sound file, a CGI script, or a combination of these. These files are downloaded to your computer and displayed in your web browser. Each time you download a file, data is being transferred. The amount of data depends on the size of the file. If you download a web page that is 1 kilobyte (1,024 bytes), or 1KB, in size, then 1KB of data has been transferred. If 500 people access that same web page, then 500KB of data has been transferred. 1,024KB is equal to 1MB. 1,024MB is equal to 1GB. How much bandwidth a site will use depends on many factors. You have to consider what kinds of files people will be downloading. Certainly a site with mp3 files for visitors to download will use more bandwidth than a small web site with very few graphics. Statistically, most sites use less than 500MB per month, which is half of 1GB
