Article provided by Gigatech.
While most people who know what web hosting (due to their earlier experience) might have a firm grasp of the basics, there are those who are new, they will need to understand the basics that involve how much space and bandwidth they might need for their website and so on and so forth.
First and foremost, the term ‘space’ is the amount of hard disk space on the Web server, and most web hosting accounts come with a certain amount of space that ranges anywhere from 50 MB all the way to about 1000 MB.
The reason for you to need a certain amount of space depends on the type of website that you are hosting over the internet. While text might require very little space, flash animation and images often tend to occupy a lot of space.
So if you are just starting off with your website, you should try and keep the size of each page below 50 KB since there are many people who use slow dial-up connections, and so if you use a lot of images along with flash animation, this will take a long time to download.
On the other hand, bandwidth is the amount of data that you are allowed to transfer on a monthly basis, and where the factors of the number of visitors, the average size of the pages as well as the number of pages that they visit as well will be taken into account in order to arrive at an average bandwidth that you might need for your website.
