GraceNet's Data Transfer Policy
Every web hosting company
pays its backbone providers for every single byte of
traffic their servers use. We have to pay for
it like everyone else, so we cannot simply give it away in
large amounts.
This is not unlimited transfer (no one can
really afford to give that promise and those claims
are misleading in nature.) The reason we have done it this
way is because a large portion of the domains we
host receive only a few hundred page views each month.
Because of this, they are only using a small percentage
of a GB of transfer per month. Since this is the case
with most domains, when we get sites that are more
trafficked, in most cases we can allow them to have the
transfer they need, even up to several GB per month
if the others on that server don't need it.
In the case that a site's bandwidth becomes very
resource intensive (10% of system resources, cpu load
or 10% of the transfer allotted to that server is
considered resource intensive), we reserve the right
to pass along, to the site owner, the extra cost associated with the use of
our system. Normally you can get approximately 50,000 standard page views per GB of transfer.
Real Audio/Video and/or a cgi or graphic intensive
site will consume more bandwidth than standard page
views as each file that is called by a visitor consumes
bandwidth.
In the event that your site becomes so trafficked
that it is requiring several GB of transfer per month we
may
contact you to see if we can give you any ideas on how
to bring your transfer down. Sometimes it can be a
simple program change or researching to see if people
are linking to your graphics or files (that is a very
fast way to eat up your bandwidth -
so do not let people
link to your images or other larger files).
If we are unable to lower it, we will
either pass along the cost of the extra bandwidth and/or
help you find a host with more bandwidth to offer. In
extreme cases where you are approaching 20
or 30 GB per month, you should consider a dedicated server to
give you the resources you need. At the present time,
extra bandwidth
is $5.00 per GB per month.
When you log into your GraceNet Control Panel, you
will see a transfer limit but this is not a set (hard) limit. This
is just to help us (and you) keep track of how much
transfer you are using. We can help analyze
the use of transfer by your domain and assist you in
finding a workable solution.
We want your site to be busy and get a lot of
traffic! So, we will always try to come up with a good solution
even if it means helping you get set up on another host
that allows more bandwidth. The only reason we
would ever suspend or cancel your domain because of transfer is if
you refuse to cooperate or we feel you are abusing
our system.
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