Finding The Hosting Company For You

By Sean Burns
2003-10-14

Disk Space

This is a bit of an unknown variable. The basics of it are that you need enough space to cover all of your web pages, graphics and scripts. Generally, each page will be about 15K in size so if you plan on having 1000 pages you would need 15MB of space. Add to this your graphics and scripts and you should have an idea.

The issue gets clouded somewhat if you are going to use databases such as MySQL because these will take up more space - often a lot more space. In addition, your sites log files are included in your disk space allowance. Your log files contain all of the information about each visitor to your site - things like ip address, browser, referrer, which pages they visited and so on. Log files is an area that catches a lot of people out because they can grow quite quickly if you start getting a lot of traffic to your site. Most hosting companies will trim your log files for you but it is something to keep in mind. My advice is to get as much disk space as you can afford.

Article Pages:
» Finding The Hosting Company For You
» Disk Space
» Data Transfer
» E-Mail Accounts
» Price
» Here Is What I Believe You Should Do.
» Conclusion

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