what is Bandwidth and data transfer

Bandwidth and data transfer are synonomous. It is referring to the amount of data that can be transferred over the network in a fixed amount of time. It is calculated by the size of your web page. For example, if you have a page totalling 20KB in file size, when a visitor loads that page on their browser, they are receiving 20KB of data. It is the same as saying that you have used 20KB of bandwidth.

To calculate bandwidth, you need to consider
a) the size of your web pages
b) the number of web pages being loaded (pageview)
c) the kind of files you offer your visitors. eg. audio, video files.

Most personal websites have only a small amount of data transfer, as their websites are small in file size and they do not have a lot of visitors. Business and professional sites are larger with more visitors and therefore use more bandwidth. If your site offers a lot of graphics, audio or download files and the daily visitors are huge, you'll need to consider a hosting plan that offers sufficient data transfer.

Using our website as an example. The average file size per web page is below 40KB. If there are 1000 web pages being viewed on a particular day, the total data transfer would be 40MB. Or the bandwidth is 40MB x 30 = 1.2GB per month.

The bandwidth offered by our recommended web hosting services ranging from 40GB to 300GB. Unless you are going to have tons of graphic and/or download files, you do not have to worry that you'll ever exceed the bandwidth limit

Windows Web Hosting FAQ

What is Windows Hosting?
What is ASP?
What is ASP.NET?
Shared or Windows? Which should you choose?

What is Windows Hosting?
Windows Hosting is hosting account that uses windows as their server platform that allows for software such as MS FrontPage, ColdFusion and MSSQL. Windows Hosting is a popular choice among programmers requiring ASP and MS SQL for their work

What is ASP?
Active Server Pages, introduced by Microsoft in the mid-1990s, is a scripting language designed to be embedded within the HTML code for Web pages. This is the standard programming system for Internet applications hosted on Windows servers. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive Web pages or powerful Web-based applications, which are easy to develop and modify.

What is ASP.NET?
ASP.net(sometimes referred to as ASP+) is the next generation of Microsoft's Active Server Page technology(ASP). ASP.net is different from its predecessor in two major ways: it supports code written in compiled languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Perl. Also, it is able to separate the code from the content, allowing WYSIWYG editing of pages.

Although ASP.NET is not backwards compatible with ASP, it is able to run side by side with ASP applications.

Shared or Windows? Which should you choose?
There's no definite answer to this question. It's what you need to do with your site that lead you to the type of hosting. If you want the tightest security then Unix is probably for you. If you’re looking for compatibility with all of Microsoft's products, then Windows is the best for you. If you opt to use PHP to power your web site, then you’ll want to go with Unix hosting. Between Windows and Unix server, there is no difference in terms of ease of use and speed.