Value Site Hosting's bandwidth policy is
simple! You are allotted a portion of bandwidth per month to do with
as you please. You can use this bandwidth for anything you want
besides things not permitted as outline in the Acceptable Usage
Policy. If you go over your allotted amount of bandwidth in a given
month, your account will not be suspended or terminated but you will
be expected to pay for the additional bandwidth.
Value
Site Hosting provides a bandwidth estimate figure in your
control panel. This is an estimate and is provided from the server
level. Actual account bandwidth usage is measured for billing
purposes at the port level. This policy exists because many users
offer files for download via FTP which is not otherwise measured by
the server directly at this time. Please note that because the
bandwidth is monitored at the port, any and all traffic for your Web
Site is tracked including, but not limited to: FTP uploads and
downloads, mail sending and retrieval, normal Web traffic, etc.
Everything that is pushed from our server to a third-party's machine
is considered bandwidth and will be measured.
We have
designed this policy because many users find that hosts offer
"unlimited" bandwidth only to find out that it has a very real
bandwidth limit. Further, they place restrictions on what you can
use the bandwidth for (i.e. no image galleries because they are a
large source of bandwidth consumption). We tell you upfront how much
bandwidth you are allocated each month and you have the full amount
to use.
It is important to note that many sites don't use more than 1
GB of bandwidth. Your site has to be very
popular or very graphic intensive to use more than 1 GB.