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The essentials you need to store your web page and have it accessible to the public, are disk space and bandwidth, along with a few other functions, which website hosting fulfils. Seeing as different website hosting companies offer different amounts of disk space and bandwidth, it is well worth knowing your needs. This will also help knowing which website hosting package you'll want to sign up for.

Disk space is, as the name suggests, the amount of space your website hosting company offers you on their servers. The most popular and affordable hosting option is shared hosting and with this option you will be sharing a server with a number of other web developers. As you will notice from web hosting reviews, if you choose VPS or dedicated server hosting, you will have a lot more disk space to yourself, but you will also pay more.

The amount of disk space you will need will vary a lot depending on what you plan to do with your website. Most sites don't need a lot of space, in fact for basic sites, 100mb is sufficient, if not more than sufficient.

The amount of disk space you need will vary greatly depending on your plans for your website. Most websites don't need a lot of space - 100 MB is actually sufficient if not more than sufficient, for basic sites. Even the most basic website hosting plans generally offer much more than this. (Generally, a hosting package with 5 GB of space would hold the average site some 500 times over.)

If you are planning a potentially busy e-commerce site, or plan to add a lot of audio and video files, you may need to consider a site with more available disk space. If you are unsure of your future needs, you may want to go with a web hosting company that will let you upgrade easily, should you find business taking off.

Bandwidth is the amount of data that visitors to your site are able to download. How much bandwidth you require, again, depends on what you have on your pages and how many visitors are coming to your site. If you go over the bandwidth limits allotted in your website hosting package, you may have to pay more.

Take note of bandwidth amounts as you read web hosting reviews. A website with 300 pages and a steady (though not intense) stream of visitors may use up to 2 GB a month. In other words, most websites will use less bandwidth than allocated.

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