Two key elements of any web hosting service are disk space and bandwidth:

• Disk space is the amount of space you are given to host your website.
• Bandwidth relates the amount of information (or web pages) that you are permitted to transfer from the hosting server to your visitors’ browsers.

A common trend in web hosting today is to offer unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. While this sounds like an attractive offer, you should be aware that no company can truly offer an unlimited amount of either of these resources – as there are physical limitations and substantial costs associated with both. The amount of information a network carrier’s lines can transfer at one time has a limited capacity. Likewise, the amount of disk space a company can offer is limited to the physical size of its hard drive.

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