2GB web space with 50GB
traffic for $5.95 per As a small business owner, how
month!" many HTML pagesdo you have in
your web site? 5, 10, 15, 25?
A luring ad—definitely. In fact
this ad makes many smallbusiness Experts say that you should not
owners feel cheated by their have a page of more than100K
present web hosts. including images. Normally the
file size of astarndard HTML page
This is how the small business is around 10-15K.
owners, who have taken
smallamount of space (say, 5, 10 Remember that, many of the images
or 25mb) calculate and feel linked to your pagesare common.
thatthey are paying more : If you have a 400x300 pixel
image, the filesize of that image
"If 2000MB (2GB) costs $5.95 per should not be more than 30K.
month, then 5MB should cost(5.95 Buttonsare normally between 3-5K.
x 5 / 2000) = $0.15 only! But my
web host charges me$1! A 700% So, let's take an example of 25
profit!! Oh...I am losing so much page web site, which has(a) 25
money!!" HTML pages, (b) each page has one
big image of400x300 pixel and (c)
So, if a small business site have 25 buttons.
shifts to the advertised webhost,
he should get better value for So, the total space usage is :
his money. Right?
25 HTMLs x 15K = 375K
Wrong. 25 400x300 pixel images x 30K =
750K
Let me explain how : 25 buttons x 5K = 125K
month—$59.88 every year!
Total : 1250K = 1.25MB
You got it now, right?
You need space for mail. How many
email accounts do youneed? 5, 10, You may ask, 'What about Traffic?
25? How much space you want to 50GB!! It's huge man!'
allocate foreach mail box? Do you
get large attachments? Your can Yes, it's huge. But, do you need
setyour email software to delete it?
mails from the server(immediately
or after few days) after you With the above example, if one
download them toyour computer. person visits all the pages,your
So, if you check your mails every site generates 1.25MB traffic. If
hour andkeep your mail space you get say 100 suchvisitors
clean for receiving further every day, you generate only
mails, you maysafely allocate 1mb 3750MB or 3.5GB(approx) traffic
for each email accounts. If you for the entire month!
are usingonly one email account,
you can use the entire free space So, here again you pay more for
foryour email. the unused traffic.
So, with the above example, if Check from your control panel,
you go for a 5MB space, how much space and traffic you
it'senough for you in the given areyou consuming currently. Are
circumstances. you paying for unused space
/traffic? If yes, then browse the
But, if you go for a 2GB space web for reliable hosts and
and use only 5MB of it, youare findout a plan which fits with
actually paying $5.99 for using your requiremnts. Compare
5MB space. A loss of $4.99every theprices and features. Check the
reliability of the host andgo for And, Save Money!
the one you find the best.
About the Author:
Subhendu Sen is the owner and webmaster of http://www.IndHosts.Net/hosting.html
— a low-cost web hosting service provider and
in the business of web hosting since 1998.
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Subhendu Sen
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