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Carole Hall

I'm just wondering, what if you sign up with a web host and you need more space than they have? For example, a couple of people have recommended Cybersharks.net, but they only allow you to have 50 MGs of space and I know I would need a lot more than that. And what does it mean when they say they allow "5 Gigabytes of data transfer"?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Carole,

See the YCOLN Hosting on my site below, 300 MB of web space and 15 GB of data transfer per month.

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Carole Hall said:
I'm just wondering, what if you sign up with a web host and you need more space than they have?
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For example, a couple of people have recommended Cybersharks.net, but they only allow you to have 50
MGs of space and I know I would need a lot more than that. And what does it mean when they say they
allow "5 Gigabytes of data transfer"?
 
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Jon Spivey

Hi Carole,

I'm sure they would offer you extra space if you needed it (for a fee of
course) If you have a big site though I'd shop around a bit more - a lot of
hosts offer big amounts of disk space in the knowledge that very few people
will use their full allocation. My host (UK based so probably not of use to
you) offers 3.5gb of disk space which is obviously way more than most people
would ever use.

Data transfer is basically the number of visits to your site - every time
someone visits a page on your site your page data (text/graphics etc) has to
be transferred from the web server to the client. Your host is saying you're
allowed to transfer 5gb of data per month before incurring extra charges.
You can calculate very roughly how many hits this equates to by dividing 5gb
(5000 MB) by the average size of your pages. If for example the average size
of your pages is 30k 5gb would allow you about 160,000 page views per
month - this is a very rough figure.

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP
 
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Geek

Hi Carole

First question should be, "How much do you need?" To answer your
second question and we will take the long way:
What the host is saying is, "5 Gigabytes of data transfer". This is how
much they allow for transfer of your web pages to anyone that accesses your
web or web pages. What is counted the transfer of the initiators request
for your page, say your page is 70kb big, then the counters counts 70kb for
that person, then another person right behind the first person requests your
70kb index page, now the counter is at 140kb at the hosts end for transfer,
so on and so forth until you reach "5 Gigabytes of data transfer". This
should not worry you yet if you are just starting out, if you become
popular, may be not even then. My site is now at 30Mb and I seldom reach
much more then half a gig's worth of transfer, probably more like 200Mb 0r
300Mb transfer per month. I have 30Gb of tranfer per month. To ask the
question again how much do you need for your site? Are you looking for a
free host or an inexpensive host? free hosts are usually low in page
capacity because they are just that free, inexpensive hosts are now pushing
up to 1Gb of space, but the average is usually adequate at 750Mb. Most
hosts want to be paid yearly, but this does not mean you are necessarily
locked in the year, the host I use will prorate to the day, the unused
proportion of the fee. If you want my site is @ http://rickswebfactory.com/
it is a commercial web design site. No site should be static, there should
always be some changes going on, for good stuff.

Carole Hall said:
I'm just wondering, what if you sign up with a web host and you need more
Click to expand...
space than they have? For example, a couple of people have recommended
Cybersharks.net, but they only allow you to have 50 MGs of space and I know
I would need a lot more than that. And what does it mean when they say they
allow "5 Gigabytes of data transfer"?
 
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