How much disk space and bandwidth is appropriate when choosing a host?

When purchasing hosting, space and traffic volume are two important indicators. So, how much space and traffic is appropriate when choosing a host? You can directly use the Virtual Hosting Purchase Guide, or refer to the explanation below:

First, let's talk about space.

The size of website space is actually the size of the server hard disk that the website can use. Common website spaces are available in sizes such as 100M, 200M, 300M, 500M, 1G, etc.

This needs to be calculated. Take a corporate website as an example. If the size of the website program is 10M, there are 1000 products that need to be published on the website. Generally, each image used on a web page should not exceed 200K (the larger the image, the slower the speed at which users open the website). In this way, these 1000 products occupy at most 200M of space or so. Adding the database, all space together is about 260M. Therefore, for a general small business website, 300M of space is sufficient. If considering that subsequent data will increase, you can choose a larger space such as 500M or 1G.

Of course, everything should be estimated according to the actual situation of your own website. For example, customers doing photography and other work with a large number of images need larger space because of high image quality and greater space usage; the same applies to video, audio, and other such websites.

Next, let's talk about hosting traffic.

Factors related to virtual hosting monthly traffic include: web page file and image file sizes, the number of website visitors, the number of pages visited by visitors, etc.

Monthly traffic calculation method:Size of each web page X total number of pages on the website X number of pages visited by visitors each month; this can roughly calculate the monthly data traffic generated in that month.

For example: taking a certain website as an example, the HTML file size of a typical web page is 15K, and there are four small images on the web page totaling 35K. The entire website has 150 pages. For example, the website has 6000 visitors each month. Assume each visitor views 10% of the pages (this depends on the nature of your website), then the monthly traffic required by the website is 50×150×6000×10%=4.39GB. Because many factors cannot be determined, such as visitors' browsing habits, page content size, etc. Therefore, this is only a very rough calculation and not completely accurate. The specifics still need to be determined according to the actual situation of the website, but you can use this to judge the approximate traffic situation, which helps you choose suitable virtual hosting.