What is the different between bandwidth and traffic?

darrell

What is the different between bandwidth and traffic?

Nowadays, i keep hearing people talk about bandwidth and traffic...

What is the difference between both?

moejoe

Nothing really...in a hosting point of view.

Bandwidth is how much mb pplz have downloaded off your site
while
Traffic is how much people have come to your site (depending on how much bandwidth [what they did etc]).

I've passed through my first 200mb bandwidth in less then 2 weeks. Very Happy

Plenty more where that came from.

Mark999111

general rule: the more traffic, the more bandwidth is used.

Though with the amounts given by frihost; i doubt youll need to worry Very Happy

xuma

bandwith : is limiits of your traffic

lockwolf

Here is how I think of it

Traffic: Number of people visiting my site
Bandwith: The ammount of resources that is used by Traffic

The more Traffic, The more Bandwith. (Now only if my site got more traffic)

ocalhoun

Objectivly spaeking (not from a hosting point of view,)
Bandwidth describes the capacity for traffic flow.
Thoroghput describes how much of your bandwidth you are acutaly using.