Creation of website is easy but choosing a web hosting provider & a suitable web hosting package for your website can be  quite a challenging task, especially for someone new. This critical decision is inclusive of multiple tenets, which must certainly be kept in mind while choosing an apt web hosting package.  Bandwidth is one of these important factors.

The concept of bandwidth is quite simple to understand. Bandwidth can be understood as the volume of data, which is transferred per unit of time. In fact, bandwidth is the rate of data transfer. It can be easily understood with the help of an analogy.

Here’s a quick analogy–Take for instance, a highway & cars. The broader the highway, the more is the number of cars passing through it. Similarly the greater the bandwidth, more is the rate of data transfer. How much bandwidth you consume depends on the content your website has. So if your website has a good number of videos, audio & multimedia files etc. obviously it would be seeking more bandwidth.

Bandwidth requirement is also determined by the number of visitors performing some actions on your website. The more is the number of visitors, the more is the amount of data transferred from your website, and so more will be the data transfer and hence more will be the bandwidth consumption.

Bandwidth requirement is driven by consumption such as uploads, downloads, transferals  etc. The more these actions are performed, more is the bandwidth needed. Hence, you must purchase a web hosting plan that meets your bandwidth requirements most efficiently & effectively.

Now you must be wondering ‘How much bandwidth does your website need?’ It can be easily figured out.

Bandwidth needed = Average Page Views × Average Page Size × Average Daily Visitors × Number of days in a month (30) × Redundant Factor

•    Average Daily Visitors: The total number of monthly visitors/30
•    Average Page Size: The average size of your web page.
•    Average Page Views: The average page viewed per visitors
•    Redundant Factor: A safety factor ranging from 1.3 – 1.8

(Note: Redundant factor signifies extra unused bandwidth. The greater the redundant factor, more capable your web server is for coping up with sudden peaks in traffic.)

Once you’ve your bandwidth figures with you, you can then decide easily which plan you should sign up for. It’s recommended that you don’t pick a cheap web hosting package since you can’t afford to compromise with the performance of your website for few bucks.

At LimeDomains, we offer three web hosting plans namely, Basic Plan–free with every domain purchase/transfer (Bandwidth offered: 1 GB), Standard Plan–for beginners & growing needs (Bandwidth offered: 100 GB) and Premium Hosting Plan–for high-traffic websites (Bandwidth offered: Unlimited).

Get your Hosting plan (satisfying your bandwidth needs) today!

A multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system—B2evolution—supports community-wide spam filters, in which many b2evolution sites aggregate and ‘tag’ spammer IPs into a central blacklist for the benefit of the larger community. This open source application, written in PHP and supported by MySQL database, offers fully exposed API for developers to integrate new functionality along with an extensive library of existing plug-ins.

After purchasing a domain name and a web hosting plan at LimeDomains, you need to install this application. The steps to setup your blog on our platform using B2evolution are enumerated as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘B2evolution’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Click on ‘The installer would be either here’.

Step 7: Enter the database details .After that enter the Base URL and the admin email. Click on ‘Update config file’.

Step 8: Select ‘New Install’ and click on ‘Go’.

Step 9: Note down the username and password and login into the site with the required details.

Congratulations! Your B2evolution is successfully setup on LimeDomains now.

Get started today!

Bugzilla, a top-rated open source bug tracking system, enables you to keep a track of outstanding bugs in your product. This extensively used open source application is compatible with most systems including CVS, Bonsai or Perforce SCM, and offers a rich repertoire of exclusive features to netizens worldwide. It’s used to track bugs for proprietary products as well as free & open source software.

Bugzilla also provides a documented & streamlined work flow, and also predicts product versions for integration to help users take critical business decisions. It also offers advanced search capabilities and scheduled reports by email.

After you purchase a domain name & web hosting plan on LimeDomains to setup your website, you need to install the application ‘Bugzilla’. The steps to setup your website on our platform using Bugzilla are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘Bugzilla’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Enter the email in the Login field along with the password that you entered during Bugzilla installation. Click on ‘Login’.

Hey, you’re done! Your Bugzilla website is successfully created on LimeDomains now.

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A multi-lingual, multi-purpose and integrated photo gallery web application—Coppermine—offers full multimedia support and enables users to upload pictures with web interface or ftp. This open source software, written in PHP and MySQL, facilitates arrangement of pictures in categories and albums and provides support for GD Graphics Library and ImageMagick. It’s also compatible with most web server software.

After you’ve purchased a domain name and a web hosting plan on our platform, the next step that you need to take for creating your image gallery is to install the application ‘Coppermine’. The steps to setup your website on LimeDomains using Coppermine image gallery are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website

Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

Step 4: Select ‘Coppermine’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

Step 6: Enter the admin username, password and email address. After that enter the database details. If you want Coppermine to use Imagemagick to generate thumbnails then you need to give the Imagemagick path. Click on ‘Let’s Go!’

Step 7: Click on ‘Let’s Continue!’ If your installation in successful you will get the welcome message.

Hey your Coppermine image gallery is successfully setup on LimeDomains now.

Start uploading pictures now!