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Definitions of Data transfer:

• This is the amount of data you are allowed to deliver from your site in a given month. The limit is usually calculated in GB with 1 GB usually amounting to 30,000 - 50,000 page views.
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• This is the amount of data that you are allowed to transfer with your account. Data is this case usually referrs to images, text, or anthing else that the web server must transfer to the user's web browser. As a general rule 500 MB of data transfer is equivilant to about 20,000 page views.
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• The movement of data inside a computer system.
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• The physical movement of data between applications, perhaps across sites.
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• In general, any outward-bound traffic from a Web site (with the exception of email) is considered to be data transfer. Each time a Web page, image, MIDI file, etc. is loaded, data transfer is generated.
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• Data transfer is the amount of digital data that is moved from one place to another in a given time. Outbound traffic from a web site, with the exception of e-mail, is considered to be data transfer. This is also known as bandwidth, the quota of data transfer that you are allowed each month. Anytime someone downloads, uploads, or visits your website - they are consuming a portion of that quota for the month.
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• in computer science, the movement of information from one location to another, either within a computer (as from a disk drive to random access memory) or between a computer and an external device (as between two computers or a file server and a computer on a network). The speed of transfer is called the data rate, or data transfer rate, and is usually measured in bits per second, or bps. ...
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• The hosting accounts have pre-set bandwidth and disk space limits. If an account's limit is reached, you may be asked to pay bandwidth or disk space usage fees on a monthly basis or upgrade to an account with higher limits.
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• This covers all traffic that passes through our Servers including specifically but not exclusively web traffic, email, FTdiv transfers and any telnet session data.
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• The sending of data over a network from a source to a destination.
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• The movement of data from one location to another is called data transfer. The speed of the transfer is referred to as the data transfer rate. The term was used to cover transfer from one data storage device to another. As it also covers the accessing of a website -- which involves data transfer from web servers to a user's browser -- the more modern definition would be the transfer of data from one environment to another.
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