How much space and bandwidth will I need?

As you know, web hosting companies are in the market with lot of features and competing each other to attract maximum number of business to their account. A lot of investment and effort is required to make a successful hosting service. Their service, support, security, technology, performance, scalability, etc. will be very important factor in deciding their fate in this business.
A critical evaluation or review of different hosting companies will give you ample understanding about their background, services, various features, etc. You have to identify your requirement first before going for a web hosting company. An individual with a limited content web page can look for a free hosting rather than looking for a paid service. Likewise, a shared hosting will be enough for small businessman just started a business or a website because of the traffic expected to their site will be insignificant. A dedicated server will come into question when you are looking for more security to your content on the servers such as an ecommerce site.
You can see advertisement in the print media or through websites about different kind of services offered by the hosting companies such as free space, unlimited bandwidth, free set up, free domain name, email, etc. Among the features, much importance is given to space and bandwidth, because the overall functionality of a web site totally depends on these two factors. There is a classification of sites such as Brochure site, the name itself tells us what is. It may have some pages of business details, product and service details. Likewise a theme site will be around a subject and mostly for freelancers with blogs and articles. Another one is Mini Sites. It is also classified as sites which requires very less diskspace and bandwidth since not much complex data expected of it. Large amount of space and bandwidth is required for complex sites with ecommerce, images, video streaming and database applications. A very high level bandwidth and space required for Adult sites. Anyways, it should be minimum 2GB disk space and 50GB bandwidth for normal sites.

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