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[Required?] Yes [Notes] Part of choosing a web host is determining how much traffic and bandwidth your genealogy blog will require. The two are interconnected. Each visitor automatically downloads the viewed web page content and design elements, which uses bandwidth. Each file downloaded adds to your bandwidth. A website with a lot of graphics and photographs will use up more bandwidth than one without. The number of visitors to your blog is your web traffic, and the more visitors visiting, and the more photographs they are viewing, the larger the bandwidth requirement. Add to this number files you might want to be specifically downloaded, such as GEDCOM files, then more bandwidth is necessary. In the simplest of terms. Honestly, I don’t expect many visitors. After all, how many people are really interested in the Elwell family? Knapp family? Andersons or Wests? Not thousands every month. So I expect that actual traffic levels to be between 50-500 visitors a month. At the maximum, if an average page on the genealogy blog totals to 300K in bandwidth (with a bunch of photographs) for 500 visitors, that would be 15 megabytes of bandwidth per month. Most web hosts offer 250 megabytes to 2 gigs as their smallest package, so that would be plenty. Remember, if your web traffic level is exceeded, you will be charged. So allow for plenty of leeway. [Feature] 
Web Traffic and Bandwidth
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