| There are a lot of great web hosting packages | | | | a standard feature of web hosting packages. |
| that are available online. However, for you to | | | | There are some who are able to offer their |
| properly determine if the package would be able | | | | clients free reign on the email settings but restrict |
| to be sufficient for your needs, you would need | | | | the mailboxes' memory capacity. Some even set |
| to consider a couple of factors. | | | | up the email account for you. These email |
| 1. FTP Access | | | | accounts have four different types: POP3, |
| Virtually all web hosts are able to provide FTP | | | | forwarding, aliases and auto responders. |
| access for users, which would allow them file | | | | 3. Disk Space |
| uploading and content editing and deleting. This | | | | Possibly the most important of the factors you |
| would make website maintenance a lot easier and | | | | have to consider would be the amount of disk |
| more convenient than the web-based interfaces. | | | | space. You would therefore need to determine |
| There are even some web hosts who allow their | | | | your requirements for the disk space. To do this, |
| users to be able to create FTP accounts, which | | | | you would need to assess all the tasks that would |
| would allow you to permit or restrict access to | | | | be present on your website like for log files, web |
| any person without having to give your FTP | | | | files, emails and databases. . You would then be |
| account details. | | | | able to approximately calculate just how much |
| 2. Email Accounts | | | | disk space you would be needing for your |
| These are essential and are usually considered as | | | | website to run smoothly. |