What do I need for web hosting?

My first 1 - 6 months will probably be slow, but I'm making a website for shopping. It will have A LOT of pages. Every product will have a page, just like at amazon.com, or shop.com - how much bandwith, and free space do I need to do such a website?
What do I need for web hosting?
Ryan, you can always try basic web hosting package from websites like http://aplis.net/ , in case traffic increases drastically, you can upgrade web hosting, at maximum you can buy a dedicated server for hosting your website.
What do I need for web hosting?
You will need about 5gig or more for your storage. It depends on how much storage space you will be using. Start hosting your site with hosting company first and you can increase your storage as your site grow
Reply:It really depends on how you write the back end.


If you code smartly using caching your websites use of bandwidth is greatly brought down.





If you are aiming at an audience that is as large as Amazon or Shop.com then I would invest some money into media temple. They host a whole slew of really big clients.





They are expensive but the load balanced servers and shell access and other essentials for running your own server are great.





If you are just starting out and if you don't really know how big your customer base will be, try shared hosting. Its very econimcal low priced and some even offer a lot of bandwidth.





I personally use http://www.powweb.com





$5.77/a month





禄 300 GB Disk Space


禄 3000 GB/mo Bandwidth


禄 FREE Domain Name


禄 Unlimited Mailboxes


禄 75 MySQL Databases


禄 Unlimited Web Site Hosting





Which is plenty for starting out.





Good Luck.
Reply:I would like to suggest following webhosting which I use, they are excellent.





http://www.hostmonster.com/track/webhost...





They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 600000 MB (600 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well.


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Reply:I assume you won't have traffic comparable to that of Amazon.com. I think something like Bluehost would be fine, especially during the period prior to making the jump to your own private servers.





20+ gigs of space and 10 gigs + bandwith should be fine.