HostArmada does not impose any hard limitations on the Bandwidth your websites can generate. Using more than the Acceptable Bandwidth Usage for your Web Hosting Plan WILL NOT be billed by our system automatically and WILL NOT result in automated limitations put by our monitoring system in any form.

The bandwidth value that we consider Acceptable derives from routine tests on our shared hosting servers and our long experience in the field. The nature of the shared hosting environment implies that many users share the available resources of the same web hosting server. Therefore, we must ensure that each user gets his fair share of hardware resources offered by his chosen plan and is not, by any means, limited to do so by other users hosted on the same infrastructure.

With the above in mind, we need to guarantee that each of our customers utilizes an amount of bandwidth that does not harm the server's performance. Excessive bandwidth usage can affect resources such as CPU, RAM, and I/O operations, consequently hindering the other customers' experience. Utilizing a large amount of bandwidth can easily influence your own website's uptime and access to the resources mentioned above and can negatively impact other users by compromising the uptime of the server itself.

Our tests so far have determined the following values for each plan of our shared hosting plans:

Start Dock - Average Estimate: 3GB - Acceptable Usage: 30GB
Web Warp - Average Estimate: 6GB - Acceptable Usage: 60GB
Speed Reaper - Average Estimate: 9GB - Acceptable Usage: 90GB

HostArmada has not designed its shared hosting plans to support projects generating higher amounts of bandwidth compared to what we believe is acceptable. We aim to live up to our values, and we want to provide fast, stable, and secure services to all our clients. We take this goal very seriously, and we do not compromise under any circumstances, especially if our user's experience is in jeopardy.

We understand that bandwidth generation is not always a subject of organic traffic on your websites, as there may be other means that can lead to a spike in the bandwidth usage. We never ignore any signs of excessive bandwidth utilization, and before we inform our users, we gather the necessary data which our monitoring system collected. We prepare detailed reports that are easily readable by even the most non-technical clients. You can cross-reference the values we provide you with the AWstats feature in the cPanel service for your web hosting account. Our technical team is fully prepared to assist you with reducing the bandwidth generation as long as it is technically possible.

Our monitoring system allows us to assess the bandwidth of every user closely. This information enables us to share this specific data with the customer whom it concerns and helps him figure out the best approach in his situation.

In the case where the client has generated the bandwidth via organic traffic, we will recommend a solution that will handle and stimulate further growth of the website. Our experienced team has dealt with countless websites and is well aware of which solution will be the most optimal. One of our primary concerns is customer satisfaction and success. We have witnessed many users thriving due to our advice, and we observed a massive spike in their audience and conversion rate because of our suggestions.

In scenarios where our clients are careless when provided with the detailed reports created by our monitoring system regarding their bandwidth generation, we will not hesitate to take the necessary actions. As we mentioned earlier, our server's stability, performance, and reliability are always our top priority. Refusing to cooperate with us to address the situation will conflict with what we aim to achieve. We will not tolerate such behavior as it will harm our brand and will put standards to question.

This number is just a rough estimate of unique monthly visitors that will be optimal for a standard website to operate appropriately under the respective package. The provided value is not a hard limitation. Instead, it gives you an idea of which plan you should go for, based on your current traffic. It also allows you to plan and schedule ad campaigns that will help you expand your website's authority and raise visitor's awareness of your brand.

Still, we have to consider that each website operates differently based on how you build it. A website with 500 visitors may use more resources compared to a website with 50 000. It depends on the code, the used visual theme, and the functional components - plugins, modules, etc.

Here is a very basic example. Two websites: one is a blog, and the other is a website offering downloadable content. The blog could easily get 50 000 to 100 000 visitors as most of the content is text and images. The other website may only have a handful of visits each month, but the nature of its content predisposes it for higher bandwidth consumption.

There are a lot of variables that our team acknowledges. There is no technical way to limit the number of visitors to your website and we do not employ similar policies that would hinder our users' growth.