How much space do you need?

[ScatteredLogical]

If you needed storage for your animation-related materials online, but didn't require an enormous expensive website, yet also didn't want the garbage and pop-ups, etc. of "free homepages," what would you say is a fair estimate of how much space you'd use? Movies I know are a big thing, but GIF/JPG/PNG/SWF are all very miniscule.......I was thinking 5-10mb space (so few people even have movie-movies of their stuff).

I'm in the process of setting up free homepages for animators at my site but I can only be so generous with the space. If I did 250 sign-ups at 10 mb I'd have to pay twice as much as normal for additional space so I'd like to be as reasonable but as conservative as possible.

[phacker]

My Isp gives 5 megs with each signup. But I've signed up so many other folks with them they let me go hog wild. I am up over 60 megs at the moment. But most folks really don't need more than 5 to 10 megs. But eveyone got a digital camera for Christmas and they don't know how to optimize...what are you going to do?

Scooter's World (http://www.scooters-world.com/) just grew like "Topsy". I now have more than 200 ecards and portfolio there, if that gives you any frame of reference.

[ScatteredLogical]

About the only thing you can do is tell them about the wonders of optimization and hope for the best. Animators have a habit of being decently tech-savvy, though, in my observation.

I think 5-10 is good. If anyone wants to go too enormous, they're better off going for a full-fledged site with as relatively cheap as hosting plans are nowadays, so they're out-of-target. Thanks for the feedback. If anyone's interested, Student of Animation should be done this weekend. The only thing that might take a few days more is completing the allocation of illustrations.