What bandwidth do I need?

Bandwidth is the traffic created by a website, if you have a webpage which in total is 50Kb, each time a user looks at this page you will use 50Kb of your bandwidth allowance.

So if you have 100 visitors in a day you will have used 5Mb of your allowance. In a month this would equate to 150Mb. But the great thing about the internet, is that one image can be used on more than one page, say for example you have a logo on your website, the same file can be used on every page of your website. This means that once a user has downloaded it, it is saved on their machine temporarily and so each time this image is used on subsequent pages it doesn't come out of your bandwidth...

Images are the largest users of bandwidth, good web design includes making sure that images are as small as possible, this means your website can be viewable by more people each month.

SolarHost will always allow you to purchase extra bandwidth if you are having a very busy period, but our packages tend to be very generous with bandwidth and you can always purchase a package to suit your bandwidth needs rather than your web site size needs.