On 29 Jun 2003 15:42, "was gio, now vinnieza" <post DeleteThis @newsgroup.com> wrote:
>"The account must not exceed 100MB of transfer each month."
Each web page is usually a fixed size, and graphics files are say
1 to 100 kb. Hosting costs money both for web space on the server
and usually for traffic. A daily bandwidth limit is something I've
not often come across, but consider it like the 100 MB limit per month
and just a smaller limit, each day. Now, take a popular site and they
have hundreds of "hits" a day, where browser's connect using HTTP and
call up a page (which usually then also causes images to download).
Take a look at the webstats at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.bwpics.co.uk/webstat" target="_blank">http://www.bwpics.co.uk/webstat</a>
and you'll see some monthly figures. Click one of the links (such
as June 2003) and you'll see that each day there's more than 130 MB
of web traffic.
Limits are imposed so that someone getting some free space doesn't
put (for example) a 5 MB mp3 file and then tell friends about it.
10 people downloading the file generates 50 MB of traffic.
100 people 500 MB
1000 people 5000 MB ( 5 GB )
So if you had the latest "chart hit" and put an MP3 on some web space
then you could easily create a lot of problems for the hosting firm,
ignoring the legality questions, in just bandwidth. Some hosting
firms offer a deal where each GB of traffic is say US$ 3 or less, so
you can see that it is not free. Many free hosting services expect
only to have personal websites, with mostly text and few graphics,
so they can easily cope with a limit of 100 MB a month, but it only
needs some popular files (music, software, or porn) to hammer their
server and start costing them lots of cash. Peter M.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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