What is web hosting?

Web hosting is a place to store your website to let people (your clients) see it. Your domain name is your address on the Internet. Web hosting includes email services so that people can send you email on your domain name. To make all this work we run a large number of high speed computers (servers) with built in redundancies so that we can guarantee your website and email will be working at least 99.8% of the time. All this is provided to you in the form of website hosting plans. Depending on the size of your website or the number email accounts you need you can choose a plan that best suites your needs.

What does website storage refer to?

It is the amount of storage space you can use on our servers to hold all (webpages, images and scripts) files associated with your website. It means the amount of space that the files would take up on your computers hard disc drive. What does monthly traffic refer to? Data transfer is the volume of information that is transferred to or from your website. Every time a visitor looks at your website data is transfered. Data transfer also includes any email sent to you on your domain name.

How much diskspace do I need for my website?

Most business websites need less than 5MB to store all of the files. Remembering that the average user on a 56Kbps modem connection can only download approximately 20MB in 1 hour, if your site is much large than 5MB it will be too slow for people to download.

Is 10 GB of data transfer enough?

Yes. Only very large or high volume websites will ever exceed 1 GB of data transfer in a month. An average business website would support up to 10,000 different people looking at their website every month and still not exceed 1GB of data transfer. The way we look at data transfer is that, if you ever have to pay for more data transfer your website will be generating so many benefits for your business that it will by far out weigh the cost of the excess data charges.