Data Transfer
Definition:
It is the overall quantity of outgoing traffic coming from a website, mostly calculated in gigabytes (GB).
Information:
It generally omits email. It is important to note the dissimilarity between data transfer and bandwidth as it can be confusing.
Data transfer refers to a sum total whereas bandwidth refers to an estimate. An example is purchasing 128 kbps of bandwidth for a data transfer of 40 GB, at the most, on a monthly basis.
| 128 kbps | = bits | = bytes |
| per second | 128,000 | 16,000 |
| per minute | 7,680,000 | 960,000 |
| per hour | 460,800,000 | 57,600,000 |
| per day | 11,059,200,000 | 1,382,400,000 |
| per month | 331,776,000,000 | 41,472,000,000 |
| divide by one billion
~41 gigabytes/month |
Note:
There are many hosts who use the terms data transfer and bandwidth for the same reference, referring to a monthly data allowance as bandwidth.
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