How Much Hosting Resources Do You Need?

In order to select an optimal hosting package, you need to know how much resources exactly you need. How to figure out these numbers? Let’s find out which aspects matter, and how to calculate the number of required resources.

Disk space

Disk space means the amount of data that can be stored on your web-server. The required space is defined by the size of your website. Most websites consist of images, videos, HTML (text), Flash, or their combinations. While the text is lightweight, media files require much more disk space. Therefore, if your website is media-rich, order gigabytes of storage.

Simpler web-pages should weigh 50-60 Kb with images and flash since some people still use dial-up connections at the speed of less than 56 Kb/sec. They may need to wait 8 seconds for a 60 Kb page to load! Therefore, use a dial-up connection for your reference: if everything loads normally with slow dial-up, things will work smoothly at the normal connection.

Now let’s calculate: if the average size of your page is 50 Kb, 20 pages will require about 1 Mb of space. That means that you can host 200 pages on 100 Mb of disk space.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the data that’s transferred from and to your server every month including uploads, downloads, HTTP and FTP. Bandwidth depends on web-page size, number of visitors and the pages they open.

For example, if you have 20,000 visitors monthly (about 650 readers a day) opening 50 pages each, your website will need 5 Gb of bandwidth monthly. However, this is a high number that even some large websites don’t reach.

 If you’ve just created your website, the chances that you need much bandwidth and disk spaceis are low. Unless you have a huge number of visitors or your website is full of music and video, there’s nothing to worry about – you’re supplied with enough bandwidth and disk space. When your project grows, you’ll have the chance to upgrade.

Posted July 16, 2018 03:48