Analyze Your Bandwidth Usage To Bring Down Web Hosting Cost
Getting your website up and running for the first time in your new speedy hosting
provider can be really exciting and the tools available that gives you a lot of flexibleness in tailoring your website when the bandwidth and space should be enough for larger personal sites and some business sites to be hosted without any signs of performance degradation. However, as your site is going continuously going to stay online then you may find yourself struggling with the web hosting costs.
Lets look into some of the ways to keep web hosting costs down.
If you haven't opted for where you like to host your website then start off with a low cost web hosting plan and before accepting the plan you need to read the terms and condition and need to make sure your website can support it. You need to verify that the amount of space allocated is reasonable and if the bandwidth is appropriate and many of the best hosts offer unlimited space and bandwidth which is very good option.
If you already have experienced with web development then try to analyze your code and optimize it using the latest techniques by utilizing these techniques can not only reduce the size of the pages for more bandwidth savings but also need to make the site more appealing and easily available to visitors and also try to avoid animated elements with other web techniques if possible.
If you feel your website is loaded with images and graphics then you should bring down the file sizes of these files as well to save on bandwidth image editing software to somewhat decrease the quality of JPEG files. The little difference in visual quality may not be noticeable if you smartly manage it but the lowered file size can save a Hugh bandwidth during heavy traffic situations and you can also try converting some graphics to GIF format if there are only few limited colors being displayed.
If your website is having downloads facility and other types of media that may cost you big on the bandwidth then fortunately there are plenty of free file sharing sites that offer unlimited bandwidth and upload the files in these areas and copy the link to your download's page.
If you are maintaining a large website which focused to a specific audience then valuable bandwidth may be wasted on people that just come and browse around and do not do anything productive. Here you can add a registration page so that only interested visitors stay here to read your content.