You might be enticed to choose a web hosting plan because it advertises “unlimited disk space”.\u00a0 But how valuable is that disk space?\u00a0 Read the fine print in the Terms of Service (TOS) and you will find that there are limits in the amount of resources your website can use, thus limiting the amount of traffic and website activity.\u00a0 If your website visitors can’t view your webpages\/content or interact on your website, or even access your website, then what’s the point of the so-called\u00a0 “unlimited disk space”?!\u00a0 So how much disk space does your website really need?\u00a0 It is easy to calculate. (Skip to the last paragraph if you don’t want to do the math.)<\/p>\n
1) Calculate the disk space necessary for any software you plan on installing.\u00a0 Here are the specs for UltimateWB:
\nUltimateWB Essentials+: around 7 mb
\nUltimateWB Lite: around 13 mb
\nUltimateWB Full Version: around 56 mb (includes WordPress and phpbb applications)<\/p>\n
2) Guesstimate how many photos, videos, documents your website will have, and\u00a0what size in kb\/mb\u00a0each file is.\u00a0 Then just do the math –\u00a0this number of files\u00a0multiplied by average\u00a0file size.\u00a0 If you plan on adding more photo galleries and other media, you will need to estimate how much you plan on adding and how fast, so that you are not outgrowing your server too fast.\u00a0 Similarly,\u00a0\u00a0if you\u00a0are creating a social networking website where you allow photos and videos to be uploaded, you should calculate how much traffic\/website activity you will be getting in the early stages.\u00a0 Then as your website grows, you can upgrade your server as needed.\u00a0 Choose a scalable web host<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0such as UltimateWB so that upgrading is an easy process.<\/p>\n 3) Database content takes up disk space too.\u00a0 Dynamic websites use databases; rather than static files taking up disk space it is database tables and fields.\u00a0 So if you are going to have lots of pages and posts, this is a factor in your disk space.<\/p>\n 4) Emails\u00a0– You will want to consider how many email and attachments you will want to store on the server.<\/p>\n Don’t feel like doing the math and guessing and estimating?\u00a0 An easy way to go about it is if you have a very simple website, 5 pages, you can start with the 250 mb disk space<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are planning a more advanced website, with lots of photos and pages\/posts, start with the 2 gb disk space<\/a> (that’s 2,000 mb).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You might be enticed to choose a web hosting plan because it advertises “unlimited disk space”.\u00a0 But how valuable is that disk space?\u00a0 Read the fine print in the Terms of Service (TOS) and you will find that there are … Continue reading