How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?
Many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting
space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not
need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much
disc space (MB) your web site uses? Do you really need an
expensive hosting solution for your web site?
For my first web site, I purchased 20mb of disc space and
wondered if this would be enough as I added pages to it. Well,
recently I checked the size of this site which had grown to over
20 pages. To my surprise the size was only 3,269KB. This means
it only uses a little over 3Mb of disk space.
Most of my friends sites also only use 2-3Mb for their sites.
Therefore it is not necessary to purchase a large amount of
space for a small site (if 20 pages = 3Mb, then 20Mb = 140 pages
approx). Are you paying TOO much for the actual space you need?
How Do You Calculate The File Size Of Your Web Site? 1. First
you need to understand how file size is measured. The smallest
unit on a computer is a bit. One bit is one electronic on or off
pulse. 8 bits strung together make one byte. One byte of
information can put a letter, such as "B" on your screen.
If you put 1024 bytes together and then you have one unit of
information called a kilobyte. Put 1024 kilobytes together and
you have a megabyte. (Most floppy disks hold around 1.4
megabytes of information). Most of your graphics and web pages
are measured in megabytes.
2. To determine your total site file size, right click on the
root folder where your web site is housed