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Note: This picture is large! If you are connecting using 56kbps modem, you might need at least 30 seconds to load it completely. * KB = kilobyte, MB = megabyte, GB = gigabyte
Also known as disk storage. Calculated in the unit of MB (Mega Bytes). Disk space is used to store the contents of your web site, including all you HTML files, images and anything else that is downloadable by your visitors. Web space are cheap today. Web hosts usually offer sufficient disk space (> 200 MB) with their plans. Your allocated disk space are also used to store your emails, web access log files and database files. Text files (HTML) will not consume a lot of disk space. It is the binary files that will take up a lot of disk space. Binary files are files such as pictures, MP3s, videos, software, etc. Disk space is only meaningful with sufficient allocated bandwidth.
Also known as data transfer. Measured in GB (Giga Bytes, 1 GB = 1024 MB ~ 1000 MB). Bandwidth is more valuable than disk space. Your bandwidth usage is the amount of data transfer from your web site to your visitors. It is measured on a monthly basis and is 'reset' at the beginning of each month. Your bandwidth usage will be vary every month depending on 'How large are your files' and 'How many visitors to your site'. If you assume there will be 5,000 visitors to your site in a month and each of them will download 10 of your pictures that are 50 KB each, you will need 5,000 x 10 x 50 KB = 2,500,000 KB which is equivalent to 2.5 GB of bandwidth. This is the easiest way to estimate your bandwidth. Usually text files (HTML) will not consume a lot of bandwidth because they are naturally small in size. Your bandwidth estimation should based on the binary files usage (pictures, ZIP files, Macromedia Flash, MP3s ...). Today, web hosts are offering significant amount of bandwidth (over 10 GB). Average webmasters no longer need to worry about their bandwidth usage. You might not know this: |
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