Bandwidth/Measurements

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The measurements important to a webmaster are those for data storage space, and for bandwidth allotment. Both needs-space and time, so to speak-are measured using the same units:

Level of Measurement	Value	Abbreviations
Terabyte	1024 gigabytes; one trillion bytes	TB, Tbyte, T-byte
Gigabyte	1,024 megabytes; one billion bytes	GB, Gbyte, G-byte
Megabyte	one million bytes	MB, Mbyte, M-byte
Kilobyte	1,000 bytes	KB, Kbyte, K-byte
Byte	eight binary digits (bits)	BinarY TablE

Related wiki pages: Resource Usage Policies; Overselling and Resource Usage; Bandwidth