whats exactly is "Bandwidth" for a VPS ?

rahulks

for example 500 GB ? is it come kind of limit?

black

It usually means 500 GB per month of transfer, including incoming and outgoing traffic.

gubbyte

data/transfer limit

rahulks

if it goes over 500 Gb what will happen ? like if i download a 500 gb file to VPS ?

BlazeMuis

Then your VPS probably will get suspended

gubbyte

or depending on the host, your port speed gets reduced

Nexus

Suspended then they might even try to bill u for the leftover. (Rare)

arieonline

if your bandwidth used up to 500GB, most of will suspend your VPS, some will limit your port speed

Jacob

Automatic suspension most people have.

Maounique

Yeah, there is a confusion between bw and traffic.
Ppl use the terms interchangibly and I must admit i am doing the same.
Bandwidth is shared, of course, and this is referred to as the port speed in this forum.
Traffic is the amount you can pass in and out of the VPS during a month.
There are a few unmetered which means you can do all traffic you can on the shared port, but it is rare to have really unmetered traffic, most hosts will suspend you for "abuse" and some suspend you for "abuse" even on the limited traffic plans.
This is why i am not getting unmetered VPSes anymore, last one was with eNetSouth.
I heard good things about jarland's offer so maybe there are others which are not complete junk.

joepie91

@Maounique said: Bandwidth is shared, of course, and this is referred to as the port speed in this forum.

Traffic is the amount you can pass in and out of the VPS during a month.

This is correct.

Although I've heard a few people mention something along the lines of "port speed" and "bandwidth" not being the same for FDC. Not sure what that's all about though.

Maounique

@joepie91 said: Although I've heard a few people mention something along the lines of "port speed" and "bandwidth" not being the same for FDC. Not sure what that's all about though.

It might be in some cases when the actual purchased BW is lower than the port speed, for example, limehost/voxility sells 1 gbps ports but that is best effort and only guarantee 1/4 of it, therefore it is probably shared between 4 ppl.
As such, total bw is 1 gbps but there are 4x1gbps ports sharing it.

zachfedora

The amount of data allowed to traverse the line

William

@Maounique said: It might be in some cases when the actual purchased BW is lower than the port speed, for example, limehost/voxility sells 1 gbps ports but that is best effort and only guarantee 1/4 of it, therefore it is probably shared between 4 ppl.

IIRC Voxility runs 1x10G per 24port G switch (1:2,4) and then 8x10G in 40G (1:2)