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What is bandwidth? How much bandwidth does your blog need?
It is just as important to know what bandwidth is. It is also important to know how much bandwidth a blog site needs. If you are a blogger and are interested in learning more about bandwidth, then today's article is for you.
Content for today's article -
What is bandwidth?
What is the difference between data limit and bandwidth?
What is bandwidth for blogging?
How much bandwidth does your blog need?
What is unlimited bandwidth?
What is bandwidth?
Bandwidth is the amount of data being transferred per second or single time over a network or broadband connection. In simpler terms, the measure of how much or how much data unit will be transferred in a given period of time is called bandwidth.
Bandwidth can be compared to a road. Suppose a road is a network. Now the wider the road, the more cars can come and go at the same time. Again, if the road is narrow or less wide then normally very few vehicles will be able to move at the same time.
One more example can be explained. Suppose a water pipe is compared to a bandwidth. So, the amount of water that will be transported per unit time with a narrow pipe water faucet will be more than the amount of water that will be transmitted through that unit of water with a thick pipe.
So the higher your bandwidth, the higher the data exchange rate on that network.
What is the difference between data limit and bandwidth?
Those of us who still use mobile data can understand this difference very well.
When we purchase an internet package through mobile SIM, the companies display different types of offers. For example, 1 GB internet for 50 rupees or 2 GB internet for 100 rupees.
Here this 1 GB or 2 GB is the data limit. This means that when 1 GB or 2 GB of data is exhausted, you will no longer be able to use the Internet. But no mobile company mentions the amount of bandwidth in their package. And this bandwidth is basically the speed of that internet package.
Where you can use the amount of data per second, which we commonly know as download speed or browsing speed.
But on the other hand if talking on broadband or wifi network. We know there are no data limits. We can use unlimited data on broadband. Bandwidth is basically calculated here.
That is, before making a broadband connection, service providers ask us how many Mbps lines to take. Where, 1 Mbps means 1 megabit per second. In the same way, 10 Mbps means 10 megabits per second. This MBPSE is basically bandwidth.
Many of us think megabits per second is megabytes per second. Which is two different things.
1 mbps = Mega bit per second.
1 MBps = Mega Byte per second.
Megabytes are one-sixth of a megabyte.
I hope I understand the difference between data limit and bandwidth.
So let's discuss what is hosting bandwidth in the language of blogging?
What is bandwidth for blogging?
In the case of blogging, the idea of bandwidth is a little different. Here we are familiar with the term bandwidth when purchasing hosting.
The two things that are most prevalent in hosting are -
Storage
Bandwidth
Storage is the storage space for data or documents on your website that you will use manually. Bandwidth, on the other hand, is the space allocated to your visitors.
This question of bandwidth cannot be explained with the help of Sanga. So let's discuss through examples.
A website or blog can have many pages and posts or articles. And each page or post is of a certain size. Now suppose the average size of a page on your site is 100 kilobytes.
Then when a visitor comes to your site and opens a page, the bandwidth of your hosting will be reduced by 100 kilobytes. Hosting's bandwidth is calculated on a monthly basis. So in a simpler way.
If the bandwidth of your hosting is 1 GB per month then it is in kilobytes = 1 GB = 1024 MB or 1,048,576 KB.
This means that if a visitor opens a page on your site and the page size is 100 kilobytes, then your bandwidth is reduced to 100 kilobytes, which means that your hosting's bandwidth will be 1,048,576 - 100 kilobytes = 1,048,476 kilobytes.
In the same way, as the number of visitors to your site increases, so will the page views of your site. And at that rate your hosting's bandwidth will continue to decrease.
In this way, if your hosting's bandwidth is completely depleted within 1 month, your site will be down. That means your site will no longer be live. And you have to wait until the end of the month.
At the end of the month, when the new month starts, your site will automatically come live again and the bandwidth of your hosting will start anew. In this case, if your hosting bandwidth is exhausted, you can contact the hosting company to increase your bandwidth.
How much bandwidth does your blog need?
What is bandwidth? Just knowing this is not the end of everything. Because you have to decide how much bandwidth you need for your blog or website.
Before you know how much bandwidth your blog needs, you need to know how to find the size of a web page. Because the size of your webpage and the number of visitors to the site will depend on how much bandwidth your blog or website will need.
To find out the size of any webpage, do a Google search for "small seo tools web page size".
In the page box that appears, click the Check Page Size button with a link to a page on your blog site.
Notice the image above. Here I have found out the size of a page with Small Seo Tools web page size checker.
So let's discuss now how to do bandwidth calculation for your site.
We need three things to calculate the bandwidth of the site -
What is the average size of your blog or website page?
How many visitors come to the site every day?
How is the daily page view of the site?
Suppose the average size of the pages on your site is 100 kilobytes. And your site gets 1000 visitors every day. Accordingly, it can be assumed that 1000 visitors per day read at least two articles or page views at 2 o'clock, then 1000 * 2 = 2000 page views per day.
Then you will need bandwidth every day -
2000 page views * 100 KB = 200,000 KB.
So if you have 1000 visitors per day and if those 1000 visitors read at least 2 articles, then you need 200,000 kilobytes of bandwidth per day. Which is about 195 megabytes as megabytes.
In that case your bandwidth will be 195 MB * 30 = 5850 MB per month. Which are 5.71 about 6 GB as gigabytes.
So if your site gets 30,000 visitors per month and all the visitors open the page at least 2 hours and if the average page size of your blog is 100 kilobytes then you need about 8 GB bandwidth per month.
Let's calculate a little more. Suppose your site receives at least 10,000 visitors every day and all visitors open at least 2 pages and the average page size of your site is 100 kilobytes. Then you will need bandwidth.
10,000 visitors per day * 2 page views = 20,000 page views.
20,000 page views * 100 kilobytes = 2,000,000 kilobytes.
This means that you will need 2,000,000 kilobytes of bandwidth per day, which is 1953 megabytes and 1.90 gigabytes, or about 2 gigabytes, in megabytes and gigabytes, respectively.
So for at least 2 page views of 3 lakh visitors in 30 days, you will need 2 bandwidth * 30 = 60 gigabytes.
Special Note: Here 1 MB is calculated as 1024 KB as binary. However, if you want, you can calculate 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes as decimal. Because, no matter what you do, the results will not be very low.
What is unlimited bandwidth?
Many hosting companies provide unlimited hosting. That means you don't have to worry about bandwidth here. This means that no matter how many visitors come to your site, you don't have to worry about your bandwidth.
But keep in mind that besides bandwidth, there is another important factor that is the server load capacity. This means how much traffic your hosting server can handle in real time or at the same time.
It does not actually publish any hosting company. And there is no way to know it. As can be seen, many hosting companies provide unlimited bandwidth but at the same time 100 or 200 visitors actually go down the server.
So I will tell you, don't fall in love with unlimited bandwidth, analyze your blog or website and calculate the approximate bandwidth, buy hosting from a good company even if the bandwidth is limited.
