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[InfantryWife]

I am new to all this so please bare with me. I am in the process of trying to learn to do my own website for our unit. I am almost there and got to thinking about getting a domain name and a host or however it is suppose to go. I have came upon this forum and read till I was cross eyed...great info if I could just get it to register! I guess my question is how do you know how much space you need and how much bandwidth? I'd appriciate it if someone could lead me into the right direction.

Thanks.

Proud~Infantry~Wife

[RossMAN]

Welcome to the WHT forums!

What do you plan on doing with your web site?

What sort of content will it have?

What is your budget?

[eddy2099]

As to how much space you need would depend on the aggregate disk space your web pages which you design uses. Include all files including html, image files and any other files involved. Then double the disk space required for emails, web logs and any other incidentals. Just make sure that your web hoster allows you to upgrade plans as and when you need to do so, this is important when you want need more web pages need to be add in to your site.

Bandwidth depends on the number of visitors and visitors they make to your website and the content sizes.

Supposed if you have 100 visitors to your website who visits 10 pages each of 150kb in size a day. Your bandwidth which you be looking at is

100 visitors x 10 pages x 150kb x 30 days = 4,500,000 kb or 4,500mb or 4.5gb bandwidth a month.

Hope that helps.

[Kehya]

why is it 150kb???? O_O

[eddy2099]

That was just an example.. I personally would define a page as the actual html page + 1 or 2 jpg files. Of course, it can be of any other sizes.

[Kehya]

this page is 52k and its loaded with stuff yeh?

I think 150k is a bit too much.

[eddy2099]

Well, but 52k is harder to computate manually.. Like I say, it is an example only and I just want to illustrate how to compute estimated bandwidth and not to give an exact speech on how huge a web page should be and so on. 150kb is just easier to compute.

[AP2k2]

for a website for your unit, i would say 300MB of space and 10GB of bandwidth.

[InfantryWife]

I still need to add maybe about 15 links to other places and then a few graphics, not many and and possibly 10 e-mails links, but am I right now at, it says "size on disk" is 160 KB, but it says the "size" is 3.58 KB. Do I go with the "size on disk"?

[InfantryWife]

How do you convert it all? Is there a chart to go by some where?

[Kehya]

Originally posted by eddy2099
Well, but 52k is harder to computate manually.. Like I say, it is an example only and I just want to illustrate how to compute estimated bandwidth and not to give an exact speech on how huge a web page should be and so on. 150kb is just easier to compute.

ah ok then.

[eddy2099]

Originally posted by InfantryWife
I still need to add maybe about 15 links to other places and then a few graphics, not many and and possibly 10 e-mails links, but am I right now at, it says "size on disk" is 160 KB, but it says the "size" is 3.58 KB. Do I go with the "size on disk"?

Yup, take the size on disk size.

[InfantryWife]

Is there a conversion chart for kb to mb to gb. I don't understand any of that.

Thanks for all your help tho.

[eddy2099]

Originally posted by InfantryWife
Is there a conversion chart for kb to mb to gb. I don't understand any of that.

Well, that.

kb = kilobytes or approximately 1,000 bytes

mb = megabytes or approximately 1,000 kilobytes

gb = gigabytes or approximately 1,000 megabytes

So 10,000,000 kilobytes would be 10,000 megabytes or 10 gigabytes.

[InfantryWife]

Great! Thanks so much...all of you!

haha, I'll probably be back tho!

Have a great night/day!