P3D Re: Web site space

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kersenbrock wrote:
> 
> > "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.  :-)

Yeah, but you will be surprised how quickly you can fill it... My
(paired down many times) 3D site is currently about 16 MB, and will soon
be up over 20 again. =)

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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