webspace
Web space is the storage space that a hosting provider rents you on a server. This is where your website's files are stored: program code, images, videos, documents. The database containing your content is technically located separately, but is usually included in the same hosting package.
Advertising brochures emphasize size, often promising unlimited storage. In practice, however, storage space is rarely the bottleneck. A typical company website occupies less than one gigabyte, even with many images.
More important are the details printed in smaller type. How many websites share the same server? How much memory is allocated to your PHP process? Are there limits on the number of databases? How fast are the storage devices?
This is precisely what determines whether your site will still respond smoothly with ten simultaneous visitors. Two packets with identical memory sizes can differ in response time by a factor of ten.
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