What is website Space, Bandwidth and Inodes

Each of these terms are ways a server measures your site footprint.

Space is simply how much of a server your site occupies. Sites heavy with images typically use more space.

Bandwidth is how much data is transferred over the internet. When someone visits your site, files are transferred.

Inodes (index node) is a Linux/Unix filesystem data structure storing metadata about a file or directory—such as permissions, owner, size, and disk location—excluding its name and actual data. Each filesystem has a finite number of inodes; running out prevents new file creation, even if disk space remains.

One of the uses we find in each of these is to monitor for hacker or trojan infection on your site. If your space remains unchanged, but you go from 5 gig in bandwidth to 500 gig, we know to look further. Each is a tool we use and monitor, relieving you of the task.