I am going to start a new (maybe) tech related blog with my friends. It is going to have at least 10,000 unique visits daily. I will also attach a forum(with atleast 5000 uniques daily) to it. I will also be giving away free emails and subdomains to my users. What do you think, is the best hosting pack that is reliable and can easily survive in that much traffic. The pack should be under $100/year.
hey register at bluehost or dreamhost . Though they have unlimited packages , you have to pay at least for 2 years to avail discounts..
If you are okay with shared hosting try http://www.dollarshower.com/deals/hostmonster1.php. HostMonster is pretty reliable! They have $5.95 per month hosting that offers unlimitted domain, unlimitted bandwidth and unlimitted storage space! But at some point (if you are really going to get 10,000 quality visits per day), you may need to shell out $50+ per month for dedicated hosting...
Wow! 10,000 unique visits a day for a blog and 5,000 unique visits a day for a forum is a lot of traffic. And giving away free email accounts and subdomains as well. I think you will find out very quickly you will be out of the realm for shared web hosting. You will need a dedicated server to handle such a load.
Guys, I found out some web hosting reviews and rating sites. One was webhostingjury.com According to that site I found Lunarpages the best, it is reliable, has good support and pricing is also very cheap. And almost 100% user reviews are positive. While in bluehost, hostmonster and hostgator are also good.
I don't get that many regular users (only large spikes of traffic once in while) on my lunarpages plan but I've been happy with them for a while now with 13 sites.
get VPS.. but wait.. am I reading this right? You're just about to start a tech related blog AND aiming for 10K unique visits a day? Good luck on marketing.