Powered by Network Solutions: Bandwidth and Disk Usage Policy
Whether you're running a personal blog or a small business site, having enough space and bandwidth is essential. Understanding how bandwidth and disk usage work in your hosting plan helps you make the most of your resources, giving you the freedom to build and grow without worrying about fixed limits.
In this article, we will discuss:
- How Much Disk Space and Bandwidth Will My Plan Include?
- Where Can I View My Disk Space Usage?
- How Do You Determine Normal Usage?
- What Happens if I Exceed Normal Usage?
- Why Are the Normal Usage Guidelines in Place?
- Review
How Much Disk Space and Bandwidth Will My Plan Include?
There are no set limits on the disk space or data transfer (bandwidth) that we provide in our hosting plans. We want you to have the resources you need to build a significant online presence, and 99.95% of all customers will have more than enough disk space and bandwidth to meet their needs.
Still, we need to be sure that we're providing all of our customers with optimum service. As such, we do require all customers to be fully compliant with our Terms of Service and utilize disk space and bandwidth related to the normal operation of a personal or small business website.
While it is rare, we may need to put constraints on accounts that adversely affect other customers or otherwise utilize resources beyond what would be expected of a personal or small business website.
Where Can I View My Disk Space Usage?
- Log in to your account via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
- Select Hosting from the left menu.
- If you have multiple hosting packages, select a plan/package first, then click the MANAGE button next to the hosting plan you want to check.
- Under the Hosting Tools, click Launch on the right-hand side of Disk Usage to show the specific content.
- Once you click the Launch button, you may now review your available and allocated disk usage records.
How Do You Determine Normal Usage?
We regularly run customer bandwidth and disk space utilization through a series of statistical analyses and use the results of these studies to define normal. Although the actual results of these analyses vary from month to month, one thing remains constant: 99.95% of our customers fall into the normal range. Typically, customers who fall outside the normal scope use their accounts for file storage or sharing rather than hosting.
If you have a question about whether your website will fall into the normal range, please contact us.
What Happens if I Exceed Normal Usage?
The most common situations involve customers who use their accounts for the storage of files - particularly multimedia files - that are not linked to their websites. It is very rare for a customer who is managing a personal or small business website to exceed normal usage.
If we have concerns about your account's bandwidth or disk space utilization, you will receive an email asking you to reduce usage. Generally, we provide customers with a minimum of 48 hours to make adjustments before taking the account offline.
Why Are the Normal Usage Guidelines in Place?
We offer hosting through a shared environment. Therefore, each site has the ability to impact the performance of thousands of other sites. While our pooled architecture minimizes this risk compared to the more common single-server design, we occasionally experience disruptions resulting from customer activity. This is an unusual occurrence (99.95% of all customers will have more than enough disk space and bandwidth to meet their needs). However, we manage this carefully to protect our users from any potential degradation of service.
Review
Network Solutions provides hosting with no fixed limits on disk space or bandwidth, giving most personal and small business websites more than enough resources. You can monitor your usage anytime through your account dashboard. If your site’s resource usage grows unexpectedly, we’ll notify you and give you time to make adjustments. These guidelines help keep the service fast and reliable for everyone.