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1. What is Disk Space?
The reserved space in the hard disk to store the web pages and web files, emails, images or other type of files in the server
2. What do you mean by Monthly Data Transfer?
It is also known as Web Traffic or Bandwidth. When visitors access a Web page, image, or other element on your site, traffic is generated. Your total transfer is the sum of all in-and-out-bound traffic (Web, e-mail and FTP).
The amount of data transferred to your website visitors as they view your website. 20 GB/month data transfer is equivalent to about 400,000 visitors downloading an average web page. A small or medium web site will consume between 1GB and 5GB of data transfer per month.
How to calculate that? By multiplying your average page size with the number of expected page views per month, for instance if your average page size is 40KB and you expect 70,000 page views per month, you will need 0.04MB x 70,000 = 2.8 GB.
A few things that you should consider when choosing the hosting company
- Are there any restrictions in monthly data transfers?
- What happens if you exceed the volume?
- Is upgrading easy task to do
3. What is a Connection Speed?
Visitors to your web site will often connect via a modem (maximum 128 Kb) or a cable modem with the maximum of 6Mb per second but your host provider should have a much faster connection.
In the early days of the Internet a T1 (1.5 Mb) connection was considered a fast connection. Today connection speeds (optical technologies) are more 80 GB Per second.
1 byte equals to 8 bits (the unit to measure transportation of one character). Low speed communication modems can transport from about 14 000 to 56 000 bits per second (14 to 56 kilobytes per second) or between 2000 and 7000 characters per second, or about 1 to 5 pages of written text.
One kilobit (Kb) is 1024 bits. One megabit (Mb) is 1024 kilobits. One gigabit (GB) is 1024 megabits, so Imagine it
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4. What is a Mailbox?
Mail boxes are in fact your email address. When you sign up for web hosting you can create your own mail box under your own domain. John.s@mydomain.com
5. What is a POP Email?
POP stands for Post Office Protocol. POP is a standard client/server protocol for sending and receiving email.
The emails are received and kept on your internet server till you pick them up with a client email program, like Outlook or Outlook Express and so on. POP email programs are built into Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers (i.e. Microsoft Outlook Express).
6. What is IMAP Email and what is the difference between IMAP and POP?
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP is another standard protocol for sending and receiving email.
IMAP represents an improvement over POP because email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from several computers (a computer at home, a workstation at the office, etc.) without having to transfer messages back and forth between computers but you should be careful about removing the emails but POP was designed to support email access on a single computer.
7. What is a Web-based Email?
Web-based email services enable you to access email via a web browser. You log into your email account via the Web interface to send and retrieve email like yahoo and hotmail.
Being able to access your email from any browser anywhere in the world is a very attractive option.
