Web Hosting, Webspace and traffic limit are the most important hosting services
Nowadays many people have their own website. For their own Internet presence, every user needs a so-called hoster. There are relatively many providers and these differ from the prices and services significantly from each other. If you want to create and operate a website, then you have to deal with the topics of web hosting, web space and also with the traffic limit.
Web hosting with and without web space
Very simply considered you need a domain (name of the website including ending) and a sufficiently large web space for your own website. The domain is the name of your future website including the respective ending. The costs for the domain are directly related to the ending. A top level domain, such as .de or .com, is very popular and costs more money than a second or third level domain. Once you have decided on a suitable domain, you only have the address of your website. If you only want to reserve a certain domain name and do not want to use it for the time being, then you do not need any further services. In order to upload content or to design your website, you also need a web space. The web hosting web space can be easily compared to the space on a hard disk. Of course, the hard drive is not located in your computer, but on a server of your web hosting provider. Before you decide on the first best offer, you should consider for which purposes you want to use your new website.
The purpose of a website determines the services required
If you only want to use your future website as a kind of digital business card, then you do not need a large web space for this purpose. The inexpensive standard offers of the web hosters should be sufficient for this purpose in any case. Texts and simple pictures as well as graphics do not take up so much space. For a normal private homepage a small storage space of 1 to 5 GB should be enough. You need a much larger web hosting web space, for example, if you put a lot of multimedia content on the Internet. The same also applies to most professionally used websites and online shops. The larger the web space, the higher your annual fixed costs will be.
The traffic limit is the third most important factor for a website. In detail, it is a memory limit for the data traffic of your website. In contrast to web hosting web space, you can only partially influence the traffic limit yourself. If your website has a lot of visitors and accordingly numerous daily calls, then you usually have a high traffic. The more data from and on your website is loaded, the faster the limit is reached. For a normal privately used website or a blog that is not visited by thousands of people daily, a standard limit of 5 to 10 GB is easily sufficient. If you want to create a huge community or forum and expect a lot of visitors in the future, you should decide for a higher traffic limit. This also applies if you want to use your website as online storage space for music or videos. The higher the limit, the higher your web hosting costs will be.
You must reckon with these costs
If you use your future website exclusively privately, then a cheap web hosting web space offer is enough for you. In combination with a top level domain you pay only about 10 Euro per year. If you need a professional website with a larger web space and additional services, then your annual costs will double or triple. In addition to pure web hosting, web space and traffic limit, you can take advantage of additional services at any web hoster. Especially useful are for example suitable e-mail addresses, mobile app options, SSL encryption and regular data backups. Each offer is scalable and can be adapted to your future situation.
