Hey there, I have a great success story to share with you guys, as well as a little cry for help. Less than 24 hours ago I launched a website dedicated to 3D (stereoscopic/anaglyph) video content (link is in my signature) and ran a quick initial marketing campaign for it. The site took off extremely well, all my expectations were exceeded and visitors seem to love it. So far, the traffic has been 10x what I've expected and I'm not even indexed by Google yet! All of this leads me to a major problem - thinking it would take a little longer until I get some true traffic to the site, I decided to initially host it on my shared Godaddy account. This account, however, has a bandwidth limit of 1.5TB and the site has already eaten up 2% of it during the first 24 hours after the launch! Simply put - I need to find a reliable hosting company with a high or unlimited bandwidth limit ASAP. Any and all suggestions from you guys are more than welcome! All the best, Bryan
It is indexed! Google doesn't wait so much before indexing a website. I had websites indexed even before adding any content to them (and obviously before driving any traffic and getting any backlink). The mistery? ... Google found them posted in my registrar's page. If you ask what G indexed if there was no content, here is the answer: the root directory
checkout aptana's cloud service. It's 20$ per month, includes 10TB of transfer in/out. They provide a staging and production environment, SVN, PHP or Ruby, it also integrates tightly within their studio IDE. It's not as easy to setup and get going as GD is. However it is way more valuable. IMHO
I currently use fodyhost now, they have been super helpful in all aspects. The price is comparable and they have dedicated servers for you.
I think you are getting ahead of yourself. 2% still leaves you plenty of bandwidth per month. Most shared hosts will close you down if you hit a CPU peak. Shared hosting is not the right choice for high bandwidth sites. Make yourself a backup plan. Contact Godaddy and find out how much it costs to bump to the next highest traffic amount. It might not be much and a whole lot easier than moving.
I don't think you need to change hosts. I doubt it's going to increase much more than 2%. I think mine is over 2% on hostgator.
I use iweb.com Extremely reliable and "unmetered" bandwidth (aka don't go over cpu usage) but i doubt it will effect you
2% for 1 day means 60% for the month well it will probably grow even more after the first day or there has been initial peak...anyway there should be an opotion to upgrade your godaddy hosting?