How much webspace do I need?

Websites differ in size and structure, from a simple 3 page information based website, right through to a fully fledged database driven website with multimedia elements.

Clearly more complex websites take up a lot of space, it is therefore hard to give a good idea of Mb needed. However for more common websites the following rule of thumb applies.

Each web page of a website is typically 10Kb, though this can be up to 20Kb so we will use this figure.

Note that this doesn't include any images! Images vary in size, format and quantity on a page; expect images to use 3 or 4 times the space of your web pages!

So:

This might seem a little shocking, not many websites in the world offer 3,500 web pages (let alone 28,000 pages) but this is just an indication of how powerful a hosting package could be. Clearly if you want to offer more images, better quality images, or more dynamic content (eg sound). You could quite easily use 90% of your web space for images (or simply room for expansion later.....)