Terms of Service
Bandwidth Usage Policy
Nutmeg Web Service's bandwidth policy is simple! You are allotted a
portion of bandwidth per month to do with as you please. You can use
this bandwidth for anything you want besides things not permitted as
outline in the Acceptable Usage Policy. If you go over your allotted
amount of bandwidth in a given month, your account will not be
suspended or terminated but you will be expected to pay for the
additional bandwidth.
Nutmeg Web Service provides a bandwidth estimate figure in your control
panel. This is an estimate and is provided from the server level.
Actual account bandwidth usage is measured for billing purposes at the
port level. This policy exists because many users offer files for
download via FTP which is not otherwise measured by the server directly
at this time. Please note that because the bandwidth is monitored at
the port, any and all traffic for your Web Site is tracked including,
but not limited to: FTP uploads and downloads, mail sending and
retrieval, normal Web traffic, etc. Everything that is pushed from our
server to a third-party's machine is considered bandwidth and will be
measured.
We have designed this policy because many users find that hosts offer
"unlimited" bandwidth only to find out that it has a very real
bandwidth limit. Further, they place restrictions on what you can use
the bandwidth for (i.e. no image galleries because they are a large
source of bandwidth consumption). We tell you up-front how much
bandwidth you are allocated each month and you have the full amount to
use.
It is important to note that many sites don't use more than 1 GB of
bandwidth. Your site has to be very popular or very graphic intensive
to use more than 1 GB. If you are unsure of your bandwidth usage prior
to moving your site to Nutmeg Web Service, contact us. We would be
happy to review your current site statistics with you to help you
choose the right package.
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