Have you thought about the amount of bandwidth that you need for you web hosting? What is a bandwidth? A bandwidth is the amount of data that a computer network can transfer in a certain time. It is measured in kilobytes per second or megabytes per second.
The bandwidth can be determined by the size of your web site. Before you ask a web hosting service provider to host your website for you, you need to have in mind the bandwidth requirements for your web site.
The amount of texts, graphic, and multimedia will determine the size of your website. This therefore means that the size of your web site will depend on its content. Texts contents usually takes the lowest space in a web site, this is followed by graphic contents and then multimedia contents. Therefore, website that contain enough texts and less graphic and multimedia is going to be smaller in size when compared to website with much graphic and multimedia contents. This is why websites which are social oriented often take up more space because of the uploads of pictures and videos.
The web hosting providers are the ones to fix the bandwidth which you use based on the amount of data sent and received within usually a month. Most website owners do not know the amount of bandwidth they need in a month.
For you to know the exact amount of bandwidth used by your web site in a month, you need to do the following:
The first thing you should do is to estimate the amount of visitors to you website in a month, after that you should know the amount of pages that you are going to use for the website. Also, you should know the amount of text, graphic and multimedia content of your page. This will give the estimate size of your page and also it will determine the bandwidth. This is calculated by estimating the number of your sites users with the average size of your text then added to the size of your graphic files. Whatever you get as your value for the action above then you would also multiply with the number of pages that you have. After all this, whatever value you get is the amount of bandwidth which you is required for your website every month. It is advisable for you to go for a bandwidth plan that offers a higher limit.
After getting the value of your bandwidth, approach a web host provider with the best bandwidth package. There are things that you have to consider when choosing the web host provider. The first is that you should be able to upgrade your services without any cost. Also, choose a web provider that offers flexible packages.
You have to look into the credibility of the web hosting service provider. There are so many of these web host service providers who would promise to give you unlimited bandwidth with some conditions, this is false because there is nothing like unlimited bandwidth. Please be very careful when picking these companies.
As you can see from the forgoing details, it is very important for you to read through the guideline of any web host provider so that you may be able to get the best they have to offer.
Author Resource:
Dhruv Patel is a customer of DreamHost. He has created site to help new DreamHost customers and to promote DreamHost by giving DreamHost coupon. You can check his website at http://ahappycustomer.dreamhosters.com
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