Disk space is the amount of data allocated to a specific client. For instance, if a client is allocated 2GB (2,000MB) of disk space, then he or she could store up to 2,000 1MB pictures on that server.
When calculating disk space usage, it is usually the combination of all the files saved on the server, plus databases and email space.
If a client exceeds their disk space limit, the server will not allow them to upload any additional files.
Web pages (html) are normally very small - on average 40 - 50KB. This means you can store a lot of web pages in a small amount of diskspace. Images take up more space, but unless you have a big database driven site - it is unlikely that you will need very much disk space. Below is terminology used to describe disk space. If you have a computer at home or the office, then you will be already very familiar with this.
| 1 Byte | 1 character. This sentence is 25 bytes |
| 1KB | 1000 Bytes |
| 1MB | 1000KB |
| 1GB | 1000MB |
You can see above that even a lot of pages doesn't really create a big requirement for disk space. If you own a computer at home you will already know that hard drives are very cheap these days. Many web hosting plans will offer large amounts of disk space. This is fine, it doesn't hurt to have the extra space - but unless you have a huge site - you will more than okay with 20MB.
