Gigabyte

A Gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital information storage used to quantify data capacity. One gigabyte equals approximately 1,000 megabytes (MB) or 1 billion bytes. In web hosting, gigabytes commonly measure the amount of data transferred, storage space, and memory. Understanding gigabytes is essential for choosing hosting plans, as it affects the capacity for website data, email storage, and bandwidth allowance.