'How much storage?' causes the most overbuying in hosting. Here are real numbers by site type.
The per-item math - Optimised WebP photo: 40–150KB (vs 3–8MB straight from a phone) - Lean WordPress install (no content): ~120MB - Standard theme + a few plugins: 50–150MB - WordPress with 100 products, compressed images: 0.8–2GB - A 5–10 page coded HTML/PHP site: 2–20MB
By website type (with headroom) - Portfolio (30 images): 150–400MB → 250MB plan fits - Business site (20 pages, gallery): 300–800MB → 500MB–1GB comfortable - Active blog (200 posts + images): 1–2GB - WooCommerce store (300 products): 2–4GB - Anything hosting video: do not — embed YouTube instead
The storage diet 1. Compress EVERYTHING to WebP before upload (squoosh.app, free) 2. Resize to actual display dimensions (a 4000px photo displayed at 800px is waste) 3. Delete unused themes/plugins and failed uploads 4. Old backups belong on your laptop, not in public_html
The growth reality Storage fills slowly and upgrades are instant — unlike bandwidth surprises or CPU walls, 'out of storage' never arrives suddenly. Kairalmas shows per-site usage graphs; upgrade when the graph says so, not when fear says so.
Start on a Launch trial, upload your real content, and the usage number will tell you the plan to buy. Evidence over anxiety.