Are you wondering, “What is Web Space and how much do I need

 

What is Web Space?

 These questions are answered in simple English for you. You need to understand the answers before you purchase hosting for your mobile app development & website design.

All the material you create for your mobile app development & website design is uploaded to your web space. Your web server needs enough space to hold all your files plus background material. This disk space provided by a web host is connected to the World Wide Web (WWW).

When you are shopping for hosting service you should understand "What is Web Space?" You want to have an idea of how much you need. Everything you upload, including unseen function and management files, uses up your web storage resources.

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Web space is measured the same as any other hard disk space. You will most likely be dealing in megabytes (Mb). “Mega” is for millions and “Giga” is for billions (Gb). Your hosting allotment of disk space may be in the range of 30 Mb to 1Gb.

You are likely to use shared hosting. You will be sharing a limited space with others. Of that storage space you will be given an allotment. This quota provided by your hosting plan must meet your present and foreseeable future needs. Check that your plan is up-gradable.

Your type of content affects how much web space is required for an uploaded web page. Pictures, graphics, animations and certain media files take more space than text files. Two photographs can use one megabyte of space. This is the extreme case. Normally photos and images are optimized to take much less space.

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For rough estimation of web space required you could plan on 1 Mb for every 5 pages. It is hard to estimate because so much depends on the content of the individual pages. If your site is mostly text and very little graphics you could plan on 30 pages per megabyte. If there are a lot of graphics you might reduce that to 5. One page with an non-optimized photo could take 1 Mb of web space!

Emails, databases, log files and other services will eat away at your storage space. There are many files in the background not visible to your visitors that have to do with the operation of your site.

What is Web Space/Bandwidth

Don’t confuse storage space with bandwidth. Bandwidth has nothing to do with web space or storage requirements. Bandwidth refers to the data flow from your mobile app development & website design to those downloading your pages for viewing.

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Large pages will require more bandwidth to download, just as they require more space for storage. This may seem contradictory to the above paragraph. To understand, realize that your site may have 100 pages. That affects your storage requirements. Your number of visitors at any one time affect your bandwidth requirements.

When a surfer lands on your page it is downloaded to their computer. This requires bandwidth, but has nothing to do with the other 99 pages in your site’s storage. Say a viewer uses a bandwidth of one page per minute. If ten visitors view pages at the same time it means you need bandwidth for ten pages per minute.

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Conclusion

“What is Web Space?” It is the online rented disk space provided by your web host. It limits the size of your online presence. Disk space is cheap so be sure you have ample.

“How much do I need?” You need enough online hard disk space for the total content of your web site. Do your estimations. Then purchase your hosting package accordingly.