re you looking to build your site would take that much
yourself a website? Trying space which could then lead you
to give yourself a presence into comparing hosts by comparing
on the internet? Then you would the amount of space made
definitely be needing a web host available to you going for the
to host your site on. company that offers the largest
space. (I have seen a company
First thing to think about though offering 100Gigabyte of space
when looking for a web host is once). The truth is most websites
the sort of website you are don’t even use anywhere close to
thinking of creating. Is it going that amount of space. Majority of
to be a just a personal site sites don’t even use up to 1Gb of
about yourself and your CV, Is it space. The average website on the
going to be a family site with internet today uses less than
lots of family pictures? Thinking 50MB of space (yes you read that
of setting up a busy forum about correctly 50MB). Even an album
your favourite hobby, or a game based website for example a
server to play your favourite family website with family
games online with friends or are pictures would still use less
you even contemplating having than 500MB of space. But don’t
multiple sites? All this take my word for it, If you can,
questions would have to be build your website offline first
answered before you embark on of all using a site building
your search for a suitable host. software such as dreamweaver or
nVU, exactly how you want it to
One thing you would notice be online with all the images and
straight away is most hosts have you would discover how very
plans providing you with little space it uses up. It is
gigabytes of space and bandwidth. therefore possible to have
This could lead you to believe several websites on just 500MB of
online space. transfer to someone else.
So I here you ask, why do hosting And if a client comes along with
companies offer as much as an extremely heavy website and
5-100Gb of space in their plans? does use even 75% of the space
Well the truth is because they allocated to him, he would most
all want to appear competitive. likely get kicked off by the host
provider with the reason that
They know your site wouldn’t use he’s using too many server
that much space and they know you resources.
most likely don’t know that, so
they try and prey on the natural Another trick of the trade is the
human trait known as GREED. Out amount of sites you can have on
of greed, people would always your accounts also known as
want to get the most of something ‘add-on domains’ on your account.
they can even though they One could assume that if you
wouldn’t use all of it. I have cannot fill 5Gb with a single
even seen some companies offering website, then maybe perhaps you
Unlimited disk space which is could fill it with several
just laughable. websites. Well these
'overselling' companies have
So do these companies have so thought about this too and what
much space to offer everyone? As they do is limit the amount of
you guessed it, the answer is no. websites you can have per
What happens is they oversell! account. So on say a 5Gb account,
Because they know you most likely you may only be allowed to have 2
wouldn’t use anywhere near your websites or add-on domains.
allocated space, they oversell to
make as much money from you as Bandwidth is another thing to
they can before you finally look out for. But like disk
space, you usually don’t use of any hosting company.
close to what is being offered,
and this is also grossly Therefore what should you look
oversold. Bandwidth is basically for when choosing a hosting
the amount of data that is company? The most important thing
transferred from and to your to look at is the server specs
hosting account everymonth. the company uses, and just as
Technically you can work out the important the support they
amount of bandwidth you are going provide to their clients. By
to need by using this formula: seeing how much effort a company
has put into to develop their
[Average size of your webpages + support department would tell you
any graphics used] x [The number the sort of experience you would
of visitors you expect each day x have with them. Is their support
Number of pages each visitor just an email address? If so then
would view] x [30 days] = Total you probably wouln’t want to be
Bandwidth for the month. with them. Does their support
have a knowledge base? Ready made
For example for a 30 page website questions and answers, video
averaging 8kb per page, and 50kb tutorials to show you visually
worth of images on each page. If how to solve the most common
you get 50 visitors a day viewing problems? An email ticketing
an average of 4 pages each, the system so if you do email them,
total bandwidth for the month responses can be tracked? Live
would be [8 KB + 50 KB] * [50 chat so a quick question can be
visitors * 4 pages] * [30 days in answered instantly? A good host
a month] = 348,000 KB. Therefore that is not just worried about
this site would use a bandwidth their profits would invest the
of approximately 348Mb per month time and energy into making all
which is well within limitations these available for their current
and potential clients. you get, also look at the support
available to you if a problem
So when next you are out shopping arises as it almost always does.
for a webhost, don't just look at
the amount of space and bandwidth
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