Creating a new business web page, potentially will have greater than 1000 links. Full questions belo

A) How much storage space should I ask the Host agent for, when my site will (I hope) be a high traffic site?

B) Besides an URL, what other traps should I look out for when creating a page that potentially will get hundreds of views a day?

C) Start up Budget $1000 in short term.

Creating a new business web page, potentially will have greater than 1000 links. Full questions below?

It depends on how big your site is in megabytes. You can go to Windows Explorer and right click on the folder containing your site when you click on %26quot;Properties%26quot;. Get hosting for twice that (rule of thumb) because you need space for the hits log and emails. Hundreds of views a day is not a big deal - you shouldn%26#039;t have problems. Hosts measure capacity two ways: Disk space, which the answer above applies to, and bandwidth, which is how much stuff gets downloaded from your site. Bandwidth is often ten times disk space, but it%26#039;s very hard to say how much you will need. Probably a lot less than you think. Start with a modest hosting plan. They will let you know if/when you exceed the capacities you signed up for and give you a chance to upgrade to higher capacity plan. I%26#039;m not sure what you mean by the $1,000 budget. Hosting (and registration) accounts charge by the month/year. The whole thing should come in at $40 $100 per year.

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Creating a new business web page, potentially will have greater than 1000 links. Full questions below?

a) Storage space depends on how big the site is, not the traffic. Traffic allowance is more important if you really get high traffic. Then you take the size of the page X the number of hits (you have to count each page and each load separately) and you will see how much traffic you need. Give yourself a lot of room.

b) register the domain yourself on godaddy.com If you get a package from someone then you will probably have issues if you ever decide to transfer it.

c) That is enough only if you know how to create the page and do the search engines yourself. Then you would even have enough to do some paid advertising. It takes hours to put together a site and anyone that knows what they are doing is $50 an hour. I spend about 40 hours on a new site myself to get everything done and registered with the search engines and so on.

Other Replys:A) This is actually two different variables... (1) the actual disk space where your files are stored, and (2) the amount of bandwidth that you%26#039;ll need. It will depend primarily on how many graphics images you have on those pages, and how well they%26#039;ve been optimized to reduce the file size.

B) Look for a web host that will (1) warn you if you%26#039;re exceeding your allotment, and (2) give you an option to quickly and easily upgrade your account should you need to do so. A reputation for fast and helpful tech support helps too.

C) Are we talking strictly the web hosting budget? Or the web design project as well? If the latter, I highly recommend listing a description of what you need done on Rent-a-Coder (it%26#039;s free). Then when the bids start rolling in, you%26#039;ll be able to pin down how much it will cost.

Other Replys:www.vodahost.com unlimited everything for 9.95 a month or 7.95 a month with full year payoff upfront... that one is much better....

Carla

Other Replys:A properly designed webpage has maybe 7 links TOTAL, otherwise, people are just going to get lost. I have 5 pages in my companies webpage, and my budget was $500 (which I exceeded). Storage space should not be an issue, because the server doesn%26#039;t store anything from your visitors, it just stores the pages.