Site host performance

Site host performance

The first step is to determine the disk space and traffic you need.

What is the size of the disk space?

Small or medium-sized sites require at least 10MB to 100MB of disk space.

If you consider html pages only, their average size is small. M aybe less than 1KB. But if you look at the size of the graphics used on the page, you'll see that most pictures are much larger than the page itself.

Together with pictures and other space-consuming elements, each page takes up 5KB to 50KB of server space.

If you plan to use a large number of image and graphics elements that do not involve audio and video files, you may need more disk space.

Before you pick a provider, identify the disk space you need.

Monthly traffic

Small or medium-sized sites require at least 1GB to 5GB of data transfer per month.

This can be calculated by multiplying the average page size by the expected number of page views per month. Assuming that your average page size is 30KB and the expected page views are 50,000 pages, you need 0.03MB x 50,000 x 1.5GB.

Larger commercial sites typically consume no less than 100GB of traffic per month.

Before you sign a contract with a host provider, you need to figure out the following:

• What is the monthly traffic limit?
• Will the site be shut down if the limit is exceeded?
• Do I have to pay an additional fee if the limit is exceeded?
• Is the host easy to upgrade?

The connection speed

Visitors typically use modems to access your website, but host providers have very high connection speeds.

In the early days of the Internet, T1 connections were considered very fast connections. Today's connections are much faster.

1 byte equals 8 bits (which is the number of bits used to transmit a character), and a low-speed modem can transmit approximately 14,000 to 56,000 bits per second (14 to 56 kTs per second), i.e. 2000 to 7,000 characters per second, or approximately 1 to 5 pages of text.

One thousand bits (Kb) is 1024 bits. A megabit (Mb) is 1024 kbits. One gigabit (Gb) is 1024 megabits.

This is the connection speed that is currently being used on the Internet:

Before signing a contract, you can try other sites on the provider's server, and it's good practice to talk to other customers.