[cj550]

I’m very new to having my own website, I don’t know a lot about what happens behind the screens, servers etc but here are a few questions hope someone can give me some info.

I had a website made which has several video samples (bike touring) but a person in America told me that it took him an hour to download a 11mbs clip, but on my computer and at a local internet cafe it only takes 70 seconds.

He told me i must have a very slow connection + download speed? What does this mean?

I think my site has a 50mb capacity- does the size of a site dictate how fast and how many downloads can be taken from the site simultaneously? Can i find out myself what capacity by website actually has, how much space i have- the actual instructions to do this?

Basically do you think i'm losing business because the capacity of my site is not up to the job, and are all servers the same?

Any info greatly appreciated

[freelancr]

If it took him an hour to download an 11mb file, and you only 70 seconds, then it is HIS connection that is shite.

Server speed and bandwidth have no correlation to the capacity of your hosting. What does though is the quality of your host.

Why not host the videos on http://www.youtube.com for free, and link to them from your website. Won't eat into your bandwidth and is hosted on fast servers.