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[Honkaroo]

I want to start a site to sell gifts and products. I'll probably start out selling a few dozen items, mostly watches and jewelery with pictures of the items for sale. After I get going I'd like to expand the items carried at my site. How much storage would I need and how much bandwidth would I need for such a site?

Thanx!

Honkaroo

[ExtremeIS]

In my experience for a site that you describe which is just starting out around 250Mb Disk Space and 5Gb Traffic should be more than adequate to get you going, make sure there are other packages which you could step up to easily before you sign up.

Good Luck,

Ryan Porter
Extreme Internet Solutions

[Davros]

Originally posted by ExtremeIS
In my experience for a site that you describe which is just starting out around 250Mb Disk Space and 5Gb Traffic should be more than adequate to get you going, make sure there are other packages which you could step up to easily before you sign up.

I'll agree.. 250MB is allot of space when you think about it.. That's a boat load of webpages and a ton of pictures. Start with something like that and of course if you need to upgrade later a decent host will be more than willing to upgrade your account.

[dethfire]

depending on how large your photo are, not much, don't worry about it, any basic package will be fine for you to start out with as long as you are free to upgrade

[wheimeng]

Maybe 100MB for startup would do fine. Upgrade as you need it.

[AFMichael]

I agree with UUN. 100MB should be sufficient for now. If you need more, you can easily upgrade to another package or even add more web space to you account if you don't need additional bandwidth. Ask the host in which you'll be with on how much they charge per bundle of web space.

[NetFuel]

Thats one thing most people don't think about, you don't always have to upgrade your account to the next package if all you need is 50 megs more space. I would think most hosts would have some sort of system to be able to sell just some more disk space and thats it. No reason to spend more money than needed.

[Zenutech]

I agree with 250 Mb and 5 Gigs, especially if the logs count towards your limit.

Regards,

[Heymish]

just work a deal with one of the web hosts here.

Im sure some of them could give you a custom quote, that has some upgradable options as need be

[Zenutech]

Originally posted by Honkaroo
I want to start a site to sell gifts and products. I'll probably start out selling a few dozen items, mostly watches and jewelery with pictures of the items for sale. After I get going I'd like to expand the items carried at my site. How much storage would I need and how much bandwidth would I need for such a site?

Thanx!

Honkaroo

Since you appear to be looking to sell products online, it may be a wise choice to look for a web host that can help you in the e-commerce department.

If you don't know what you will use for processing credit card orders, and all that other stuff, there are quite a few posts in the E-commerce Category of this forum.

Regards,

[gamers:fix]

i'm also in your position honkarro so if you don't mind i'll ask my question here instead of clutter the board with the same topic.

mine will be a games store;
location: Australia and only selling to at national level
products: 2,000 within 6 months, roughly 150-200 kb per image
software: oscommerce with no large modifications

what kind of a plan would you suggest? i'm leaning heavily towards the lunarpages shuttle plan 800/40

cheers

[Steven]

Originally posted by gamers:fix
i'm also in your position honkarro so if you don't mind i'll ask my question here instead of clutter the board with the same topic.

mine will be a games store;
location: Australia and only selling to at national level
products: 2,000 within 6 months, roughly 150-200 kb per image
software: oscommerce with no large modifications

what kind of a plan would you suggest? i'm leaning heavily towards the lunarpages shuttle plan 800/40

cheers

lunarpages plan would work great

[Heymish]

lunarpages sound good for what you want, and have a great support network

[letsgo]

Gamers, your image sizes are huge, if your going to have a few of those per page, I would seriously look at getting someone with some experience optimising images to have a look at them or you'll be going through bandwidth at a phenomenal rate and it wont be a pleasant experience for someone on 56k to browse your store.

[gamers:fix]

i've just been cruising the lunarforums and they seem like a great team over there. definately joining them. cheers.

letsgo, lol. if you think that's huge you should check out the competition i'm going against. 250megs on average. ouch! i posted 150-200 as a conservative figure. just wanted everyone to give me a safer plan option. thanks for the suggestion anyway.

cheers