Hostgator reseller hosting question

[Lisa Gergets]

Just signed up for the "aluminum" reseller hosting package and I have absolutely NO idea how to set up my package settings.

For a basic niche blog, what would I set the package settings to for Quota (MB) and Bandwidth (MB)? I mean, I'm totally clueless on this, so any help is sooper-really-alot appreciated!

[SageSound]

It's not really critical, and it's not specific to Hostgator.

Think of it as a baseline that you want accounts to start with.

I set up 500MB for disk space Quota, 1000 MB for Bandwidth.

If I post a video to a site, the Bandwith can skyrocket, so I'll set a minimum of 4000MB. Monitor it closely so you don't end up with a "Bandwidth Exceeded" page instead of your landing page!

Also, multimedia tends to be large, so you'll probably need to increase your disk space Quota.

HTH
-David

[Lisa Gergets]

Originally Posted by SageSound

It's not really critical, and it's not specific to Hostgator.

Think of it as a baseline that you want accounts to start with.

I set up 500MB for disk space Quota, 1000 MB for Bandwidth.

If I post a video to a site, the Bandwith can skyrocket, so I'll set a minimum of 4000MB. Monitor it closely so you don't end up with a "Bandwidth Exceeded" page instead of your landing page!

Also, multimedia tends to be large, so you'll probably need to increase your disk space Quota.

HTH
-David

So then, would bandwidth always be double what the disk space is (as a general guideline)?

[SageSound]

Originally Posted by TinkerAndPo

So then, would bandwidth always be double what the disk space is (as a general guideline)?

You're reading too much into it!

If most of your accounts will be for parking pages, then 100MB bandwidth is fine.

If most of your accounts will be for blogs, then 250MB bandwidth is probably fine, unless you've got lots of traffic or images on the site.

Blogs are stored in databases, and I'm not sure the database space is counted in your disk Quota. It's a quirk of how they do their accounting.

So you could have a huge blog with a very small disk Quota and large Bandwidth.

A static web site with lots of multimedia and no traffic might need 2000MB of Quota and 500MB of Bandwidth.

It's just a starting point! Their defaults are generally too low for most practical needs.

You need to go thru every couple of weeks and look at Bandwidth Usage. Make adjustments where needed.

If you're lazy, you could just set Unlimited for each one, but that has a drawback: if you look at your stats, it doesn't show you relative usages! By setting a number, you can see nice little bar-graphs and adjust things where needed.

But if you just don't care, set them all to Unlimited and be done with it.

Just one little tip: if you're "sub-leasing" any of the accounts (ie., you sell web hosting plans), you DEFINITELY DO want to SET LIMITS! Do NOT leave them on Unlimited or you risk having your account shut down if they decide to take advantage of you!

-David

[Lisa Gergets]

THANK YOU so much! I could not find the info you just gave me ANYWHERE!

You rock!

[sbucciarel]

I set my blogs if they are not autoblogs at 200MB disk quota and 200MB bandwidth. I use my email address for the account and if you start to run out of either, you get a notification and then you just go back and adjust. If you're using video, the bandwidth and disk space can be a whole lot more. I've got one site that is a video course and the bandwidth is up to 12,000MB now. Time for Amazon S3 for my videos.