The monthly traffic function is usually referred to as information transfer or bandwidth as well, however all of the aforementioned terms apply to the very same thing - what amount of info can be transferred to and from your shared hosting account. The website traffic can be generated in just two ways, the more apparent one being site visits. When somebody loads your website, their web browser requests and downloads the webpages from your hosting server then displays them on their end. The more visitors you have, the more outgoing traffic is generated from your hosting account. Considering that this particular characteristic includes the total website traffic, not only the website visits, you should not forget that inward traffic is counted as well. Which means site content along with other files that you upload to your account using a file manager or an FTP application are counted towards your account quota. Your transfer is usually checked on a monthly basis and the counter resets on the very first day of every month irrespective of your actual signup date.

Monthly Traffic in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Considering that our Linux semi-dedicated hosting are very effective, we have decided not to put any restriction for the monthly traffic that a given account can produce. We consider that if you get a hosting package that comes with a great deal of computing power, your web sites will probably have a lot of visitors and given that each and every visitor produces certain site traffic, you could end up with inaccessible sites if there was any restriction for this feature. With truly unrestricted site traffic, you can be sure this can never happen. For your benefit, you can keep track of the content being downloaded and the site traffic that is generated for each domain with hourly, daily and monthly statistics that will give you an idea how popular your websites are. You'll be able to even view individual webpages and files which have produced the most traffic in the semi-dedicated account.

Monthly Traffic in Dedicated Hosting

With a dedicated server, you'll have a very efficient website hosting system at your disposal and the site traffic allowance you will get suits all the other features. The server can make terabytes of site traffic every month, thus whatever the type or amount of websites that you host, you'll never need to worry for them being unavailable because of not sufficient site traffic. To be on the safe side however, we'll give you the opportunity to upgrade this feature if needed. We will notify you well in advance if you get close to the limit, so that you will have the chance to update or lower the site traffic by optimizing your data in order to avoid any disruption of the work of your web sites. You are able to monitor the consumed and remaining traffic for the current month via the control panel that we supply. The info there features all the incoming as well as all the outgoing transfers, which includes software setups and / or updates. In comparison, a hosting Control Panel features more detailed data, however only for the site traffic to and from a web hosting account, not the server as a whole.