Web hosting services bandwidth - for what period of time are they talking about?

[kranky]

Looking at different web hosting services, and while they all specify "X Gb bandwidth" they don't say over what period of time. Is that per year? Per month?

 

[SpunkyJones]

Typically its per month.

 

[RossMAN]

It's per month.

1st to the last day of the month.

So on August 1, 2004 your bandwidth will be reset.

 

[kranky]

Thanks. It just amazed me that none of the ones I looked at ever specified the time period. I guess that's an industry standard and people just know.

 

[helloedchen]

well, the pricing is usually listed as per month, so when you pay for those hosting specs, that's what you get 'per month'. guess it's assumed usually

 

[RossMAN]

Which web hosts have you checked out?

Is this for a personal or business web site?

 

[dquan97]

per month. There are some among us who can host your site for a reasonable price... like rossman, devioustrap, etc.

 

[kranky]

The reason for my confusion is I had seen some services advertising a yearly cost, and some monthly, but none of them ever specified the duration for the bandwidth. For example, one place has a $15/year plan. It includes 200mb disk space and 4GB bandwidth. Since the price is per year, I couldn't tell if the 4GB was also per year. It doesn't say.

This is for a group I'm involved with that wants to do a site like pics.bbzzdd.com where members can post photos for discussion (and hopefully keep people from using it as a hosting site for ebay auction photos). I guess that would be a personal site.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: kranky
This is for a group I'm involved with that wants to do a site like pics.bbzzdd.com where members can post photos for discussion (and hopefully keep people from using it as a hosting site for ebay auction photos). I guess that would be a personal site.

That should be very easy to do using .htaccess

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