Disk space is essential to any web site. Disk space is essentially the space that is allotted to a web site in comparison to the amount on the hard drive of the server, or the computer that the information is being stored on. If you order 5 GB’s of disk space then you are allotted those 5 GB’s on one of the server’s hard drives.
Disk space is purchased along with bandwidth in hosting packages for web sites and is related to bandwidth in every way. While bandwidth is the amount of data that is being downloaded from the server, the disk space is the space on the hard drive that holds that data. Basically, disk space is the space where the files and images are stored and the bandwidth is how many times that stored information is being downloaded from the server to other computers.
Disk space allows web site owners to use that space for whatever they’d like to store. Disk space is, in essence, a web site owners virtual storage room. The web site owner has access to this storage room via his or her own computer and can access that storage room at any time and store any file they’d like in there. They can have private sectors of files they don’t want downloaded and then other areas related to the web site itself that can be downloaded. Disk space is like having a hard drive on someone else’s computer that you can access and use yourself on any other computer.
In larger terms, the disk space for a file hosting company is related to the file uploading of a user on that file hosting web site. Users upload files and images to the web site which can then be accessed at any time. By uploading, the users are submitting their file to the disk space that the file hosting web site has purchased in their hosting plans on the server. A user uploads their files and those files join countless numbers of other files from other users all over the world on that same server. Those files on that disk space can then be downloaded from anywhere.