:: Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data, measured in Megabytes per month that clients may transfer due to any traffic originating from or going to their website. A large part of this traffic is web traffic (website visitors) but can also be FTP (file uploads), Anonymous FTP (file downloads), and even E-mail services. Again, the more bandwidth allowed, the better!


As much as you need.

All clients are allowed to use unlimited text web page hits as needed per month as long as their content is in accordance with our Acceptable Uses Policy.

Traffic Guidelines

Due to the unique resource characteristics and traffic patterns associated with certain types of sites, the following are limited to 5 gigs (on average, close to a 100,000 hits per month) of free traffic/bandwidth per month:

• Sub hosting - any domain housing additional users
• Shareware, sound, video, image and multimedia archives
• Mirror sites
• Distribution points
• Any site whose primary purpose is file distribution
• All sites with files other than plain text webpages

Sites that go over the allowed free traffic will be charged $10 per gig. Sites must pre-pay this fee, and site is subject to suspension if bandwidth is unpaid for.

How can we offer unlimited text web page hits?

This is a common concern that we publicly address. While we, and anyone else for that matter, has a limited amount of bandwidth, it is important that we have access to more when needed. First, we are able to increase our bandwidth available with a simple telephone call. Secondly, we have three Tier-1 providers, so bandwidth not only is available when needed, but from different sources. Finally, it is statistics which always prevail and show that while some clients will end up consuming more than their monthly fee worth of bandwidth every month, an overwhelming majority of clients do not. In the future, bandwidth will continue to get cheaper which works to our advantage.