How much traffic load can these shared host take?

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    I'm planning to move a site and right now I'm considering shared hosting on an established brand like Hostgator, godaddy, bluehost etc.

    My question is how much load can these webshost take? I get around 4000 vistors generating 6000 impression each day, and this is going to grow. I want my site secured for atleast 3x times the visitors. I don't want to keep moving. I also don't want my site to go down under the load, who wants?

    Please advice.

    Also give your experinces on hostgator, godaddy, bluehost, hostmoster and any reputed others.

    Edit: The site will run Wordpress.
     
    Last edited: Aug 5, 2009
    theredgiant, Aug 5, 2009 IP
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    BuxP Notable Member

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    In my experience, a site that has been getting over 15k uv's per day at shared hosting, I was asked to upgrade to VPS...

    I think it depends from host to host, you should choose one that interests you and ask them yourself.
     
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    lorddan01 Active Member

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    It also depends on type of site. I have an arcade and some games are 1mb so i can use like 400mb worth of bandwidth a day for just 600 game plays, so imagine big arcades use loads more. If its just text, like a blog then not much, just work out page size x pageviews and you should get a rough idea.
     
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    theredgiant Well-Known Member

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    So what should I look for in a web host? It's a normal wordpress blog. bandwidth is not much concern, every webhost offer gigantic amounts. I'm worried about the load/hour. the speed.

    What do you suggest?
     
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    theredgiant Well-Known Member

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    I have heard that clustered hosting provides comparable performance as dedicated hosting. Any idea? I just saw that Netfirms is offering clustered hosting on all their plans. How good is netfirms?
     
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    lorddan01 Active Member

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    Well a blog is one of the least resource consuming sites there is so any major, if not all hosting companys basic plan will cover it. id recommend byethost, i would of gone with hostgator too if i hadnt found these but id never leave them now. :)
     
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    Can u provide statistics from your current load/hour & speed?

    tbh if bandwidth is not a problem, I would go for shared hosting.
     
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    theredgiant Well-Known Member

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    The blog is currently on blogger, so there is no such statistics. I want to move to wordpress, but I'm worried about site slowing down due to traffic.
     
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    Well go with a site that has multiple packages, if you chose basic and its not enough its really easy to upgrade on the same site.
     
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    Who are your currently hosting your blogger site 4k visits/day with theredgiant?
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    I would say not to go with shared host.
    You need at least an low end vps to cater for 3x of your traffic.
     
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