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 .