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There are thousands of shared virtual hosting plans offered by web hosting companies from small businesses to large corporate enterprises. Even though price is an influencing factor, there are still fundamental elements you should look for in a shared virtual hosting plan., regardless of its platform
Storage Space
The typical average web site will rarely require more then 10 megabytes of storage place. As you browse the web sites of web hosting companies, you will notice how some offer unlimited storage space to entice you into joining up with them. Although web storage is cheap you should not need that much, of course there are exceptions, and quality web service providers will rarely offer that type of deal. Most basic web hosting accounts allocate at least 20 MB (megabytes) of storage space nowadays.
An average web page should not be larger than 40KB because you want your web site to be fast loading and not turn people away. In addition, since graphics are linked to html pages, they should be considered in the equation as well. If the web page takes too long to load, users will get impatient and leave the web site. With this in mind, there is a quick formula to calculate how much storage you need; firstly determine how many pages you initially have, multiple the numbers of web pages with 40KB (a good size average), and multiple that again by 5. For example, if you intend to start off with 15 pages, 15 X 40KB X 5 = 3000KB. This is less than 3MB (3000KB). The reason for the addition multiplication of 5 is for growth - allowing the addition of more web pages as required, and also because of raw log files. Some providers allow you access to your log files and place them in your account. This file or files can increase in size dramatically if visitors to your web site increase. Of course, you can delete them or old log files to free up space later on.
If you have intentions to store and serve large images or even video downloads, then you may want to look at a high-end account. If the Internet traffic to your web site is also high, then we suggest you look into changing to a dedicated/managed/co-located server hosting plan. These plans are able to use all the resources of a single server that is dedicated to your web site use only.
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