Advice on Bandwidth for a Website

[Soliloquy]

Man, my second computer question for you guys in as many days. Luckily this one doesn't involve my Computer being on the verge of exploding in an unrealistically hollywood-like manner, so that's a step up.

A friend of mine is setting up a simplel website, and she wants to know how much bandwidth she should buy? The website is a professional profile for herself so that people googling her can find out about more about her. She'll be working at an online policy institute, so she figures there would be a fairly decent number of people wondering she is, what are her credentials, etc.

She is only planning on putting up a few text pages, and maybe a photo or two, so it shouldn't be too taxing on a server.

Any idea of what kind of bandwidth she should purchase? I don't figure it would be too much (provided she doesn't end up in the national spotlight for something) but I'm not exactly an expert. And so, I turn to you. Again.

I feel like I'm abusing my halforums tech support privileges.

 

[Dave]

She could go with a shared personal server easy and get by.

 

[Soliloquy]

Thanks!

Where can I look up more about those?

 

[Dave]

Well, as much fun as Arvixe was for dedicated servers, I have never had an issue with them for their shared servers. I'd contact them or even GoDaddy. Either one can get you cheap rates.

 

[fade]

For that? Get the cheapest possible. She's never going to need more than the lowest amount of bandwidth.

 

[strawman]

I've had great service at http://www.wisesource.com and http://www.a2hosting.com - the latter being cheaper.

As far as bandwidth, it's not going to be a concern. The lowest bandwidth option will be more than sufficient for her page, and can easily be scale up without fuss by the provider to the next level if needed.