webspace. what ,how, who?

[benji]

i am going to register a domain, i know the name i want and i know how much stuff i want online but i don't know what all the technical stuff means. if i have 100mb of webspace and 100mb bandwidth, what's the difference?

cheers

ben.

[Riggy]

your webspace is how much you can store on your site

your bandwith is how much your site is allowed to be accessed

eg if you host videos ,then say it is a 15mb vid then downloading it once will use 15mb

[benji]

so if my site is full of videos, how much bandwidth should i realistically expect to ue?

[Adam]

so if my site is full of videos, how much bandwidth should i realistically expect to ue?
It will depend how many people want to see your vids.

[Adam]

So if you have one 25mb vid, and a 100mb bandwidth, then 100/25=4, so 4 people can download the vid at one time.
I think thats how it works.

[kevw]

If it says you have "100mb bandwidth per month" then once that is used up your site will be "stopped" until the next month.

So as above, if you had a 25mb vid and 4 people viewed it then your site will be stopped until next month.

[Stuart]

it could be 100mb per month or something

which means 4 people a month can download a 25mb vid.

[ade]

it also depends on who youre with - some companies will charge you if you go over your allocated bandwidth.

for vids it also depends on the quality and length - for example an average 1 minute vid at standard interenet resoluton (pishy) will be about 3 meg.

[Jack]

www.123reg.co.uk look quite good, offer a fair size bandwidth on their webspace services too.

[benji]

does this sound good?

Starter Plus:-

250MB of web space for just ?2.99? per month!*
3000MB data transfer per month!
CGI Script enabled
On-line file manager and full FTP access.
25 mail boxes (POP3).
Free WebMail
Webalizer graphical web statistics (click to try)
Add FrontPage Extensions for ?25 per year.
Unlimited e-mail forwarding addresses

All this for just ?2.99? per month!

[boredbloke]

but what does the "?" and the "*"

...is it 2.99 a month after you've paid 50 initailly or do you just start at 2.99 a month?

[Jack]

I think those prices are ex. VAT so hence the "?", if thats from 123reg then there should be a link to show prices inc VAT?

The per month thing probably means that, rather than paying ?2.99 a month, you pay a lump sum every 12 months of ?36ish or whatever it works out as.