You will hear words like 25 MB, bandwidth, ftp, email forwarding, php, cgi-bin and fantastico. All of these are things that are offered with different packages that you will find. Before you decide let’s look at what you might need and how to know that you are receiving this.
Most companies will have their packages grouped by the various things they offer, of course the more you get the larger the price will be. The basic package is usually around 25 MB of web space. This is how much space the hosting company will allow you to have on their web server. This is with . There will be other also on this server with you, each with their own packages and amounts of space.
Bandwidth is how much data you are allowed to use in a certain amount of time, usually monthly. Bandwidth is used each time you upload web pages, images, or some one visits your website. If you are only allowed a small amount of bandwidth like say 50 MB then you may run out of bandwidth if you plan on adding a lot of pages, or you are expecting many visitors.
Ftp is a way of getting into your website through the backdoor. This will enable you to upload your web pages, images and install scripts in a pretty easy fashion. All you need to do is place the folders in the proper place in the correct folder.
Email forwarding can be very useful. You can have any email that is sent to your website forwarded to another that you have. This way no matter how many websites you have you have all the emails forwarded to one main account.
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