The first things most people look at from web hosting features are space and bandwidth, since the use of web hosting is to store web pages. Most of the time people will think to have Gigabyte web hosting space or bandwidth, because they will assume their website will take a lot of space and bandwidth. Also people would think for their future, how about if the website grow and need more space and bandwidth in the future.

Currently many web hosting offer you more than 100GB of space in their plans. Honestly, they all do that to appear competitive. They know, some of websites wouldn’t take that much space and they know most of website owner don’t know about that. Most of website owner will think if they can get more space it will better whether they don’t use it.

One thing you need to consider if web hosting offer unlimited space. It is impossible for web hosting to offer this, because space always have limit and always needs more money to increase the space. If you get web hosting offer this, read more carefully term and condition they have. Mostly they will said you can have unlimited space if you don’t use and store audio and video file in your pages. Another trick they have, if you take a lot of space, let say you have thousands of content, they will try to give a lot of reasons such as using too many server resources.

If you feel you can’t fill 5GB with your web pages, consider to use ‘Add-on domain’. It means you can add more domains in 1 web hosting account. Some of web hosting offers until 10 add-on domain. Web hosting mostly already know although you use 10 add-on domains, you still can’t fill the space web hosting offered.

In conclusion, what you should look when choosing a hosting company is see more deep what actually you need for your website. If you want to build company website just as information for your client, consider how many pages you will make. If you think you will have million of pages in the future, you can consider web host with more than 5GB however, if you only have hundreds of pages, 5GB and lower is enough for you.