Disk space is the amount of data actually being stored on the hard drive at your domain. This can include the actual contents of your website, stored files, databases, or saved email that is left on the server.

You can reduce the amount of saved files on your disk space by regularly removing old email from the server. Most email client software (Outlook, Entourage, Eudora, Thunderbird, etc.) have an account setting to automatically remove these emails either when you delete them from your mail client, or after a specific period of time. Consult your software's documentation to find this account setting.

You may also want to have your webmaster remove old, unused web pages and their associated graphic files as well as unused databases.

Bandwidth is the measure of the amount of data sent by our servers to people accessing your website as well as your outgoing and incoming email traffic.

A sharp increase in bandwidth usage can be from increased traffic to your website, or sending and receiving large amounts of email (or email that has large attachments). Bandwidth usage is harder to regulate or reduce usage. Unless your bandwidth usage is a one-time jump for a specific reason (uploading files to the website, or sending a large amount of one-time email), you will want to purchase additional bandwidth to keep up with your use.

If you find that you need additional disk space or bandwidth, it can be purchased for $5 per gigabyte per month.

There is no need to pre-pay for bandwidth. If you exceed your allocation, you will receive an email notification indicating the overage. You will then need to contact our offices to arrange purchasing the additional bandwidth/disk space.