The two main components of your web hosting are disk space and bandwidth. Bandwidth is "the size of the pipe" through which you transfer your web pages to the browsers of visitors to your site. Large image files, music files and similar consume large amounts of bandwidth, and somebody pays for it.
There are several hosting companies offering "unlimited bandwidth" as an enticement to use them. It is, however, important to understand exactly what this means. Almost all hosting companies, in their terms of service, have restrictions, even on so-called "unlimited" accounts. This usually takes the form of limits on the server resources - in other words, if you use more than they allocate, you will be penalized. Resources are defined as bandwidth and/or processor utilization
Hosting customers are inevitably attracted to the "unlimited" aspect, as a marketing ploy. If you are a low usage customer, then maybe unlimited would be workable (but if you are low usage, why would you need unlimited bandwidth anyway?). If you are a customer who expects to do some business on-line, or transfer large files, you would almost certainly be better off paying for what you use. Most web sites consume a lot less than expected. For example, a site with 35,000 page views per month, at an average of 25kb per page, uses less than one gigabyte (1gb)
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