Website owners may benefit from a basic understanding of what hosting companies refer to as "data transfer". It is a cost component of nearly of all web hosting packages, and understanding it may help website owners make better cost decisions before choosing a web host.

Data Transfer Overview

Transfer i.e. ."Bandwidth" or "traffic" is the amount of information (in bytes) transferred back and forth from visitor's computer to the server your domain is hosted on. Examples of data transfer can be