6 Gigabytes of monthly bandwidth or data transfer translates to about 6,000 unique visitors per day. The average website uses less than 250MB of bandwidth per month and receives about 50 visitors per day, so only very popular sites ever exceed 6GB.

THE TRUTH ABOUT UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH

Some web hosts claim that they offer unlimited or unmetered bandwidth. Bandwidth and traffic cost money and tie up server resources, so if any host truly offered unlimited bandwidth at any price they would not be in business for very long. If you read their Terms of Service, you will find the following language or something similar:

"If at any time the Customer’s website generates enough bandwidth usage to affect the performance of other customer sites on the server, we reserve the full right to terminate the Customer’s domain name without refund."

What this means is if the host feels that any customer's website is costing them more money in bandwidth than the amount that customer pays, they will close the account without refund. Of course the resources of each server are set up not to exceed a certain amount of traffic, so higher bandwidth usage by any customer will automatically have an impact on other accounts on that server. The big question is what kind of bandwidth do they consider excessive, 1GB, 2GB, 3GB, 5GB, etc.? Is their bandwidth really unlimited or unmetered? If they do not measure bandwidth, how would they know when someone is using too much, and how can they keep their servers from running out of resources?

Instead of keeping you guessing what our bandwidth limit really is, we prefer to offer a generous minimum limit of 6GB which is truly more than enough for any website. In the event of an unforeseen increase in traffic, our bandwidth is burstable beyond that limit, so your website will not be shut down.