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Old 21-Dec-2004, 13:07
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1Gb of webspace - this means you get upto 1Gb of storage space to store all of your files on for your website.

5Mb of bandwidth - this is how much people can download from your site before your ISP will "disconnect" your website. It's usually quoted for a given time, so it may be 5Mb per day, or 5Mb per month.

How much they download can be anything - any file on your website. So if you have a web page which is 2Kb and a few images on there which total 58Kb, then one person downloading that page and the images takes 60Kb off your bandwidth allowance. Your ISP will not deduct FTP access from this bandwidth for when you're uploading files to your website.

5Mb is not a lot at all! Are you sure it's 5Mb and not 5Gb per month? That's about right for an NTL package (I get 20Gb per month and have unlimited disk space with my ISP) and unless you've got horrendously large images and/or large video files, you should find it's plenty.

Reading that again, you may well have got them round the wrong way - you're more likely to have 5Mb of webspace to store you files (which isn't a lot) and 1Gb per month Bandwidth.
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