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500 MB Web Space. 5 GB Transfer Per Month.
How much space is 500 Megabytes? And what does 5 Gigabytes bandwidth transfer per month mean? Well, here's an approximation of how much space and bandwidth you'll have, in simple terms:
| Typical storage sizes: |
A binary decision
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1 bit
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A single text character
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1 byte
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A typical text word
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10 bytes
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A typewritten page
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2 kilobyte s ( KB* )
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1 low-res photograph
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100 kilobytes
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A short novel
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1 megabyte ( MB* )
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1 high-res photograph
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2 megabytes
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The complete works of Shakespeare
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5 megabytes
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100 books
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100 megabytes
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A pickup truck filled with books |
1 gigabyte ( GB* ) |
| Information for a Web Site: |
An average HTML web page
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1 kilobyte ( KB* )
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A button-size image for a Web page
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1 KB to 5 KB
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A larger image for a Web page
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30 to 60 KB and larger
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An average Web site
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5 megabyte s ( MB* )
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A 3 minute Mp3 (music) downloadable file |
3 MB |
*Kilobyte (KB) = 1024 Bytes
*Megabyte (MB)= 1024 Kilobytes
*Gigabyte (GB)= 1024 Megabytes |
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