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iLucas
December 31st, 2006, 20:32
Running a website, at times, can be difficult. When you start, most people only use between 1-10MB's webspace, depending on what you're running. For instance, phpBB bulletin board software is 2MB's most!

We, the hosts, are doing many people a favor by giving our time and effort, giving you, the user, the opportunity to run your very own website.

We're getting many, many people requesting something like 1GB+ webspace and 50GB's+ bandwidth. As a new webmaster, you will not use that quota. It's very, very rare for a new webmaster to have a hit site, gaining 50GB's+ bandwidth, monthly.

For a personal website, clan website, or anything of the sort, you don't need anything more than 25MB's to start out, and really no more than 1-2GB's bandwidth.


A web page may be very small or large depending upon the amount of text and the number and quality of images integrated within the web page. For example, the home page for CNN.com is about 200KB (200 Kilobytes = 200,000 bytes = 1,600,000 bits). This is typically large for a web page. In comparison, Yahoo's home page is about 70KB.

All I ask, as a host, is don't be greedy. Think about how much you need, not want.

If you absolutely need a higher quota free, you can't rule out something in favor of the host. For instance, post for host or ads.

AMC
December 31st, 2006, 20:37
hey man, point has been made, but i agree people should take more note :P

RavenServers
December 31st, 2006, 20:54
This also brings up the over-used topic of dreaded overselling... But I fully agree. We as a company feel that quality is more important than quantity in this sector (even though so many other providers see things somewhat differently).

Best wishes
RavenServers

James
December 31st, 2006, 21:02
Yes, some good points there, don't go for 10GB plan when you only need 20MB. :D

XeonGX
December 31st, 2006, 21:08
especially if you want paid hosting, don't waste ur money
lol

AMC
December 31st, 2006, 21:13
i think this is somewhat similar to a post i wrote a while back which Jan kindly added to the request guide ( see bottom of page : http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10737 )

Brandon
December 31st, 2006, 22:32
That is why I suggest doing "as-you-go" style hosting, give it to them when they need it, not when the think they immediately need 20 gigabytes of bandwidth, it's just a waste!