I`m aboutto lunch my website,a socialnetwork website. I never did project like this before,so i was wondering if anyone can explain to me How much space of the server will i need. Because for people photos they will be uploading to the server,then thelink to the database. So i dont know how much space i`m i gonna need.
It really all depends on howmany users you will get, and howbig the files (photo's) you are allowing to be uploaded.
lets imagine i have 100,000 members and i allow up to max 20mb photo upload. and each member can upload profile photo and create albums. for begining how much space i`m i going to need??
In that case. 100000 users x 20MB = 2000000 megabytes > 1953.125 gigabytes > 1.90734863 terabytes So lets say 2 terabytes as not all users will upload 20MB. Add a little bit extra (just in case) for OS and website code.