Hunt Hosting’s (Your Marketing Guy’s sister company) most common Website Hosting plan comes with the following:

Who knows what the heck that means? Anyone? Anyone?

To the average small business owner or internet user, that number doesn’t mean squat. This post is an effort to explain this very common website hosting term: DISK SPACE.

Disk Space

First, a more technical definition: Disk Space is a measure of how much space your e-mail and website occupies. It is usually measured in MB (megabytes). A MB is a million bytes of information - typically, one byte can represent one letter or number. Another measurement you may see used is the KB (kilobyte) - which is a thousand bytes.

For Example:

A small text only email might occupy just a few KB of storage space whereas a large email with attachments, such as a video or MP3 file, might take up several MB.

The typical website page occupies 5-10 KB of storage space.

Another Example:

You have a large glass jar. You start filling that jar with sugar. Eventually that jar will fill up and you’ll run out of room.

That same example in relation to website hosting disk space:

You have a fixed amount of disk space. You start filling up that disk space with website files and e-mail. Eventually that disk space will fill up and you’ll run out of room.

Again, the common Hunt Hosting plan offers 300 MB of Disk Space. That offers plenty of room for your website files as well as a lot of e-mail. We monitor our clients’ disk space usage and if they are ever nearing capacity, we make adjustments to ensure that they’ll have disk space available.

Just like high school algebra, you’ll probably never have to know or use this information, but for some savvy web users, the explanation above answers a lingering question.

Source: Some of the information in this post was taken from this link.