P3D Re: Web site space

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> "My ISP (Prestel, in the UK) gives me *UNLIMITED* web space for my
> personal web
> site. I cannot use it for a commercial site, but everything else seems
> fair
> play."
> 
> You are lucky because Geocities offers only 11 megs also.


When looking for hosts for myself and my wife's business (so that
we could each have our own domain name URL)  I was thinking that
even 10-megabytes would be quite a bit unless one is doing a 
software-downloading or high-res-image-downloading sort of site.  By rule 
of thumb one is "supposed" to keep pages down to maybe 30~50K at most to 
make page-loading time reasonable for folk using modems (so they don't
fall asleep).  10 Megabytes is a LOT of pages.  :-)

So even a 5-megabyte limit wouldn't be bad (typically), I should think.  
That still would be lot of JPG's.  :-)

Mike K.


P.S. - I chose two different hosts, one medium priced with good
       service (wife's) and another with VERY low prices (mine).  Neither should 
       have any practical webspace problem (hers allows 50MB, I think mine
       25MB). 


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