Traffic Volume and Hard-disk Space of your Server

Well well, make sure you get the disk space that is enough to cater your web files, such as .html, as well as pick the traffic volume that you need.

For a small or medium website, 10MB to 100MB is pretty enough for your website. Despite of this, you should take note to those multimedia files such as image files, flash files, your website probably needs those multimedia files, and you would find the size of these files are relatively big.

Make sure that you know your needs before you start looking for your web host.

For traffic volume, a small to medium website will consume between 1GB and 5GB of data transfer a month. The traffic volume can be calculated by multiplying your average page size with the number of expected page views per month.

If your average page size is 50KB and you expect 10,000 page views per month, you will need 0.05MB x 10,000 = 0.5GB.

Larger commercial websites probably consume than 100GB per month.

Therefore, several things need your attention, before you sign with your vendor.

• What are the restrictions on monthly transfer
• Will your site be closed if you exceed the volume
• Will you be billed a fortune if you exceed the volume
• Will my future need be covered
• Is upgrading a simple task