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What are most common bandwidth wastes?
In my case, anything that goes in or out of my servers (or virtual servers) is considered part of the bandwidth usage, no matter what protocol. That includes HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, TELNET, SSH, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SNMP, et al.
Images, and large and cumbersome CSS files tend to suck down large amounts of bandwidth.
[edited by: Tapolyai at 5:07 pm (utc) on May 11, 2007]
Does emails sent uses bandwidth in your hosting plans?
In many (most?) cases, yes. That's another reason why people hate SPAM so much- because YOU get charged for the delivery, not the SPAMMER.
Yep. A hosting company I'm with recently changed their SMTP email policy for outgoing messages since they've been trying to limit unnecessary bandwidth usage. I can only send out 25 messages every 30 minutes, and only 300 per day. Don't use it 90% of the time, but when you have a bi-weekly newsletter and a database of thousands of subscribers, that can become cumbersome when you need to transmit.
But customized my submission process and now I send it in specific intervals.
Either way, I believe most ISP's consider SMTP traffic as part of your bandwidth usage.
