Mweb Webhosting - is 50MB MySQL Database enough?

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Hi,

I busy doing research on some web hosting places in South Africa.

I see that MWEB Hosting is R19 per month (R190 for 10 months). I also saw it comes with one 50MB database. Is this 50MB database enough for wordpress + articles posted + a forum?

Thanks.
 
"1 character = 1 byte. So, about 1000 characters equal 1 kilobyte. If a page has 2000 characters on it (a reasonable average for a double-spaced page), then it will take up 2K (2 kilobytes). That means it will take about 500 pages of text to equal one megabyte. If a page has 4000 characters (single-spaced), then it will take about 250 pages of text to equal one megabyte."

It all depends on the frequency and size of posts. You could start off at 50Mb and just upgrade later if need be.
 
mweb

No pics do not go in db, but i know that that hosting is very limited to functions, not even sure you can run Wordpress,
 
In my work I deal with a lot of local ISP's. I'd stay away from MWEB hosting if you can help it. Personally I'd use an offshore host but if you must be hosted locally your best bet is probably Hetzner in terms of support and staff that actually know something. Only issue with Hetzner is their crippled control panel but at least they know what they are doing most of the time. Most of the others are painful...
 
pjbuys said:
No pics do not go in db, but i know that that hosting is very limited to functions, not even sure you can run Wordpress,
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The Mweb hosting is satisfactory. It runs Wordpress fine, I have had several clients whose websites I had to have hosted on their free Mweb accounts.
 
Mr.CookieMonster said:
Hi,

I busy doing research on some web hosting places in South Africa.

I see that MWEB Hosting is R19 per month (R190 for 10 months). I also saw it comes with one 50MB database. Is this 50MB database enough for wordpress + articles posted + a forum?

Thanks.
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Not to be funny, but I think 50MB is way too small.

50MB can easily be achieved in your database in one to three days if you have a busy forum or if your website grows. (And this is only on a forum).

I am not even referring to articles or a WP blog, which will take up even more space in the MySQL database.

50MB is fine if you have a small program you need to run and display info from a database without the need of updating it frequently. As for running an active website, I think you will soon end up with a lot of errors and running around like a chicken willing to pay your services provider anything they charge for more space on your MySQL databases.
 
I think that 50 mb is fine to begin with, just monitor your usage to see if you need to scale up.
 
I have 5 empty databases with average 10 tables each, say 10 fields each.

my mysql data file is 20megs.

not sure how they actually calculate db size
 
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