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Bandwidth Plans Vary by Provider
Generally, providers offer bandwidth in dedicated, shared, metered or unmetered packages. Obviously, dedicated plans are all yours, while shared plans are distributed with other users on their port. Prices can vary widely, so caution is recommended when soliciting requests, to best match a provider’s bandwidth services to a realistic estimation of the bandwidth you’ll require.

Unmetered plans are capped – at whatever size bandwidth pipe you’ve provisioned. Typically, in a shared unmetered plan, providers will guarantee a minimum amount of bandwidth, but no maximum. Dedicated unmetered plans are much more expensive.

What is the 95^th Percentile
Billing on the 95^th percentile is a viable option if you anticipate periodically BURSTING above your allotted bandwidth. For example, if 10Mbps bandwidth or data transfer speed is included in your hosting package, you could burst above 10Mbps for periods of time. With 95th percentile billing, the top 5% is not billed.