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How much disk space do you think I will need?

Disk space is used to store your website files and emails on your account. The space used for your website really depends on the nature of your site.

If you have a photo gallery with lots of large high resolution images, then your disk space usage could be high. If you have a small brochure type site for your business, your usage may only be a few MB. Have a look at the size of all the files on your PC to work out how much space your site may use.

Emails stored on your account are also included in the total. If you use a POP3 email client like Outlook on your PC, then emails are downloaded and then removed from your account. This means they only take up space on the account in between when they are received and downloaded to your computer.  If you are using webmail or IMAP, then the emails are stored on the server. 50 emails without attachments may take up 1MB of space.

As a benchmark, at the time of writing, our website takes up under 25MB of space. 20MB of that is the software that powers the knowledgebase!

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