Original: Bandwidth in web hosting In website hosting, the term "bandwidth" is often incorrectly used to describe the amount of data transferred to or from the website or server within a prescribed period of time, for example bandwidth consumption accumulated over a month measured in Gigabyte per month.
Simplified: Bandwidth in web hosting In web hosting, the term "bandwidth" is often used to describe the amount of data transferred to or from the website within a defined period of time.