Assessment Task 6 Hosting
Outline Your Websites Technical Requirements
The size of my website is 13,240 KB or 13.24 MB. For web space required I need to think about many things.
Things that I need to think about include disk space, bandwidth, approximate size of your webpage, types of files, future plans for your website and number of pages in use. Possibly the most important thing to take into consideration when thinking about web space is the amount of visitors per month to the website.
For the Pod Bay Doors band website it would be a lot of visitors as they are an up and coming band gradually gaining more followers.
PHP is a server side script that could be used in the Pod Bay Doors website as it can generate dynamic page content, send and receive cookies. To do this you need to run the web server connected with a PHP installation.
At this stage there is no database required for the Pod Bay Doors website as this stage. However into the future as the popularity of the band grows you will need a database for customers wanting band merchandise, tickets and visitor information.
I think the site would need to have the ability to send or receive emails. It is important to be able to keep in contact with potential new fans to keep them interested in the band.
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Having the ability to send or receive emails as well is important in dealing with any other potential clients.
Compare the Features of Web Hosts
Here is a table below showing all the different features of three different web hosts.
Recommendation
For the website hosting provider that would be most suited to my project I have picked Go Daddy as my hosting provider for the Pod Bay Doors Website.
This provider is a cheap option to use compared to the other two hosting providers that I looked at. However it still provides many options to use for web hosting.
The ability to create your own databases on your hosting account I think is an advantage to use. The option to have either Linux or Windows as an operating system is an advantage to have both operating systems available to use.
