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CBI E-Solutions - Web Hosting Policies
Web Hosting Policies
Fact of life: There is NO such thing as "unlimited bandwidth" for free! Beware of webhosts that promise this. They will charge you for bandwidth consumption once you go above what they consider "acceptable consumption" (which is much lower than what we consider acceptable consumption), will shut down your site or will force you to move to a dedicated server in which you have to pay for dedicated bandwidth.
Another fact of life: At our Hosting, you don't have to pay for extra bandwidth consumption.
First, let's start with explaining what bandwidth is. The term bandwidth is given to the amount of data that a website can output to visitors. In other words, the more files your website delivers to your visitors (pages, graphics, etc.), the more bandwidth your website consumes.
Bandwidth is usually measured in gigabytes a day. If you deliver 100,000 pages a day of 10.0 kilobytes each, then your website will consume 1 gigabyte of data per day, or about 30 gigabytes per month. Over 90% of all websites never go above 5GB of data transfer per month. We consider 10-20GB of data transfer per month to be an acceptable amount.
However, there are times when websites do go over that due to increase in popularity or advertising, and can reach over 30 gigabytes of bandwidth consumption per month, which costs at an average of $1.50 per gigabyte. This means that in such cases, we might either charge for the extra bandwidth, or can reach a deal with the owners of the website (more on that below).
We at cbi Hosting are quite flexible about this, and we usually do not charge for extra bandwidth unless the website is "abusing" our service's bandwidth. By "abusing" we refer to:
- Placing big files available for download. Things like games, ROMS, MP3s and other such things.
- Turning their website into a storage site for other websites (i.e. becoming a "mirror" for example), turning it into a storage for personal backups or file distribution among friends (i.e.: "I'll upload Y file so that Joe and his friends can download it tomorrow").
- Websites that are nothing but a collection of pictures (i.e. supermodel sites).
If you do consume a lot of bandwidth, then we may do either of the following (at our discretion and/or whichever you choose):
- Charge you $1.50 for each gigabyte of data transferred above our acceptable consumption, or
- You agree to advertise our service on your website by placing icons or buttons (things like "Hosted by cbi Hosting" or "Powered by cbi Hosting" buttons/icons) in a visible area of the majority of pages on your website. Every new customer you bring us will help pay for your bandwidth.
This can all be summarized into this: at our Hosting, you don't have to pay for extra bandwidth. We are quite flexible about this, and we'll do everything within our reach to not raise your monthly payment.
If you haven't yet signed up with our Hosting, let us know if your website will consume a lot of bandwidth so that we can reach an agreement beneficial to both you and us.
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