Web Site Space

tomj · 05-14-2002, 02:51 PM

I am considering a virtual reseller plan and need to know how many MEGS a normal web site is. In other words if someone had maybe 6 pages, email form, search engine, maybe a flash movie. How can you check you site to see how many meg it is?

Darkman · 05-14-2002, 10:04 PM

you can actually set each account's MB space in PLESK. So its really up to you how much you want your customers to have...

adamst · 05-15-2002, 12:12 AM

Hello there,

This depends on how many images etc you have and how big the flash movie is? But in saying that , I've seen many sites with more pages than 6 fit on 1 floppy disk - i.e. less than 1.44mb.

When you start adding Databases, images, PDF's etc etc the site size will increase along with it - but for a basic site a few meg will most probably do.

cheers,

Adam

Conqueror · 05-15-2002, 10:04 AM

Well, i guess the minimum to start an interative web site needs at least 10MB to 20MB

that is basic. so i guess you can set in the between which is 15MB.

but i do not know about the traffic, it's keep confusing me. So i hope there will be someone to help you out.

adamst · 05-15-2002, 06:05 PM

Hello again,

after reading your question a bit more, I realise you were after a guide as to what to allocate. Conqueror is definately right in that you should be allowing that sort of disk space as a rule.

I was basically giving you a rough minimum as to what a site may be, a brochure site so to speak. HN's homepage, for instance, is somewhere around the 200k mark. Loads fast with some nice images.

good luck,

Adam

**susannad** · 05-15-2002, 09:03 PM

I set my clients sites at 15 MB

WenZS · 05-15-2002, 09:21 PM

I set mine at 50 mb for my clients, for a variety of reasons. A lot of them will be wanting to run PostNuke, which alone takes ~5 mb. Add a few other scripts and a good chunk of space is gone. It really depends on how you are promoting your site and what you are focusing on. If you are really hyping PHP capabilities, then giving someone a 10 mb site could result in some very unhappy clients. =)

I know the vast majority of them won't even come close to the 50 mb - which is perfectly fine as it gives me more room to play with when it comes to my sites.

Hope this helps,
Wen (whose main personal site is about 250 mb so maybe she isn't a good person to ask about average web site size...

Conqueror · 05-15-2002, 10:26 PM

WenZs,

How many Database you gave to your client? I know if they wanted to setup PostNuke, they need at least 1 Database. But with your 50MB, i was wondering how many Databases you had given to them

WenZS · 05-15-2002, 10:36 PM

They get unlimited databases. =)

Wen (who has a completely insane hosting plan with a negative profit margin because most of the people who host with her are friends...)