For example, if you have just one page on your site which is 50Kb. Then each time someone visits your page that counts as 50Kb towards your Data Transfer allowance. Only a VERY small percentage of the sites we host ever reach this level of traffic. If you do you then have two options. Firstly you can restrict the number of visitors to your site or you can pay to extend the bandwidth of your hosting package.
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