[Mike-mijen]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Depends how they define hits. Some people [wrongly] refer to a single page load as a hit, but really, that's a visit. Some people refer to every element of your page as a hit, as in each thumb, banner, etc would be considered a separate hit. That's correct.

from http://www.kylake.us/www101/what_are_hits.htm

from http://www.lamphost.net/node/716


Consider that bolded portion when forecasting the amount of hits your gallery would expect per day. Also, I agree that you don't want a host that would shut you down when you are seeing heavy traffic, since that's the time when you want your site to be running its best. If it was a DDOS attack, that would be another issue.

Thanks useless, I am going to contact them about that.