Hosting sizer · Plan Fit

How much hosting does your site really need?

Plan pages list gigabytes and "unlimited". Your site needs transfer, disk, files, PHP workers and memory, and those numbers grow. HostNowOnline works them out from a few facts about your site, then checks each plan you are considering, limit by limit, today and months ahead.

Size my site See how it is worked out

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Estimates, every rule shown

Sample label: a corner bakery

Hosting Facts

Corner bakery (example) · CMS · 6,000 visits a month

What this site needs from a hosting plan, today and in month 12
Need	Today	Month 12
Monthly transfer	20.5 GB	29.2 GB
Disk space	9.4 GB	22.8 GB
Site files	1.0 GB	1.0 GB
Media added	0.00 GB	2.4 GB
Database	150 MB	210 MB
Email	6.0 GB	12.0 GB
Backups kept	2.3 GB	7.2 GB
Files (inodes, rough)	77,917	145,747
Busiest-minute page views / s	0.041	0.059
PHP workers at once	1	1
Memory	224 MB	224 MB

Load band in month 12 Medium

Estimates from the numbers typed, growing 3% a month. Workers = busiest-minute views that run code × server time × 1.5 headroom. The band is HostNowOnline's own rule of thumb, not a host's. How it is worked out

Three questions a plan page rarely answers

29.2 GB

How much transfer will a month take?

Visits × pages × page weight, less what browsers cache, plus downloads. The example bakery moves 20.5 GB a month today and 29.2 GB in month 12 at 3% monthly growth.
1 worker

How many PHP processes at once?

The busiest minute decides it, not the monthly total. Little's law turns busy-minute page views and server time into processes running at the same moment, with 50% headroom.
Month 1

When does a plan run out?

Mail, uploads and backups grow every month. Plan Fit walks month by month and names the first month a limit is passed. In the example that is the Starter plan's disk.

Plan Fit: two plans, side by side

Type the limits printed on each plan. Empty means the plan does not say, and becomes a question to ask the host. These two plans are made up for the example.

Starter (example)

Outgrown in month 1

Disk space 10.0 GB 94% today · 228% in month 12 · runs out in month 1 Past limit
Monthly transfer says unlimited need 29.2 GB by month 12 Unlimited?
Files (inodes) 100,000 files 78% today · 146% in month 12 · runs out in month 4 Past limit
PHP workers / entry processes 1 at once 100% today · 100% in month 12 Near ceiling
Memory 512 MB 44% today · 44% in month 12 Headroom
Mailboxes 5 mailboxes 60% today · 60% in month 12 Headroom
Database size not stated need 210 MB by month 12 Not stated

Ask the host (2)

It says "unlimited": Is there a monthly transfer (bandwidth) limit or a fair-use rule, and what happens when a site goes over it?
Is there a maximum size for one database?

Plus (example)

Headroom on what is stated (2 limits not stated)

Disk space 50.0 GB 19% today · 46% in month 12 Headroom
Monthly transfer says unlimited need 29.2 GB by month 12 Unlimited?
Files (inodes) 250,000 files 31% today · 58% in month 12 Headroom
PHP workers / entry processes 2 at once 50% today · 50% in month 12 Headroom
Memory 1,024 MB 22% today · 22% in month 12 Headroom
Mailboxes 10 mailboxes 30% today · 30% in month 12 Headroom
Database size not stated need 210 MB by month 12 Not stated

Ask the host (2)

It says "unlimited": Is there a monthly transfer (bandwidth) limit or a fair-use rule, and what happens when a site goes over it?
Is there a maximum size for one database?

Headroom the need stays at or under 70% of the limit · Near ceiling 70-100% · Past limit the need passes the limit by month 12. The bar shows month 12; the dark part is today.

What you tell it

Traffic visits a month, pages per visit, average page weight, browser-cache saving, downloads a month, average download size
Busy times busiest hour's share of a day, burst inside that hour
Server work views that run server code, server time per such view, memory per worker
Storage site files today, number of site files today, media added each month, database size today, database growth each month, mailboxes on the same plan, average mailbox size today, mail growth each month (all boxes), backup copies kept on the account
Growth traffic growth each month, look ahead

Every box starts with a sensible value for the kind of site (static pages, a CMS such as WordPress, a web app or a shop), so a first answer takes a minute.

Price

Every sizing costs nothing. $1.95 a month buys room and range.

The sizer, the Hosting Facts label, Plan Fit for 2 plans, 12 months ahead, printing and a Site File for 1 site are free, with no account. The Sizing Pass is for people who compare a lot of offers or look after several sites.

Free during preview. Nothing is charged, and every Pass feature is on for everyone.

Pricing details and cancelling

Sizing Pass: what it adds
Item	Free	Pass
Sites kept in a Site File	1	25
Plans in one Plan Fit	2	6
Months looked ahead	12	36
Month-by-month CSV	No	Yes
Monthly	$1.95
Or yearly (two months free)	$19.50

Plain about what it is

HostNowOnline does not sell hosting. It names no hosts, holds no prices and has no affiliate links, so it gains nothing from the plan you pick.

Estimates, not guarantees. The numbers come from what you type and the published rules on How it works. Real use varies; a host's own limits and terms decide.

Nothing looked up. It never visits your site or any host. What you type stays in the page unless you save it to your own Site File.