Minimum Requirements

Having the right hosting platform and infrastructure is of vital importance as it has direct effect on the website performance and scalability. When deciding on a hosting structure, the following criteria must be carefully considered:

• The disk space needed by the website files and the related application files must be carefully considered for the project in its initial state as well as the possible growth with time.
• The bandwidth availability must be considered and aligned with the overall website projected traffic.
• The ability to have extra dynamic bandwidth and its cost should be considered.
• The databases space availability must be considered.
• Memory and CPU usage and limitations must be considered.
• The number of email addresses provided with the hosting company must be considered. Some companied consider that the space provided for emails is inclusive with the overall hosting space.
• The email account space quotas should be considered.
• General email settings availability should be considered like email forwarding, catch-all emails, etc.
• Additional settings such as number of FTP accounts, statistics, control panel, webmail, etc. may also be considered.