: Generally speaking, bandwidth refers to the data traffic to and from your server. The requests sent by a browser to your server plus the response sent by your server; all adds to the bandwidth

@Megan663

Generally speaking, bandwidth refers to the data traffic to and from your server. The requests sent by a browser to your server plus the response sent by your server; all adds to the bandwidth usage. So if someone uploads a 2GB file to your server, that counts. The server's response such as you are not allowed to upload files, your upload was purged counts too. A very small PHP script can send GBs of data. Long story short, every single byte that comes and goes through your webserver is included in bandwidth. There are server side mods that count the bandwidth and limit or disable an account once this bandwidth is exceeded. You can find your bandwidth usage in the control panel (or invoice :)

As for database requests, I do not think they are included because the data transfer is local. Some hosting companies include FTP traffic into bandwidth usage though.

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