How can I work out size of my website so I can get hosting for it?

Question

Hi! We have a website which we paid someone professional to make and now we are paying them £230 a month to host, site support, reporting and internet consultancy. Every month I just get a load of figures through summarizing who has looked at the site etc. I don't feel like I am getting much for my money. I have seen gostats.com and they seem to give their clients a lot of info for only $90 a year! Also I am able to go into the admin of my site and update it, amend it myself and do the google ads the original guy set up, myself too.

The problem is, our website has 8 pages, quite a lot of photos, and the whole admin chunk at the back. I wouldn't call it large but I can't work out how big it is and I've been looking at 123 reg (who I buy my domain name with) and I don't know how many MB web space or data transfer. At the moment I'm afraid to leave this guy, but the contracts only been for a year and I don't think I want to renew. Help!!

Answer 1

You're paying too much. Any hosting plan for about £100/year would be more than enough for your website. As for stats I recommend Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ See the tour here: http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-US.html

Answer 2

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Good Luck!

Answer 3

You are definitely paying over the odds. move your website to an American host and get unlimited webspace and data transfer..



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Answer 4

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cheers !

Answer 5

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Answer 6

£230 a month to host ????



Good heavens what a mega rip-off !!



A website hosted at one.com cost $ 1.45 per month, unlimited number of pages...



Try to get rid of them as soon as possible, this is maffia !!!!



What is the name of that company ???