I am having a site with 4000-5000 unique users per day. Site is currently hosted on shared hosting. Site has become very slow and sometime down due to excessive traffic. Should I look for other shared hosting or look for dedicated hosting plans. Most of my pages are static HTML.
Since your website provider hasn't booted you yet I am going to suggest a VPS. Go with one that has at least 768 MB of RAM. Alternatively you could go with a dedicated server but that would cost more but give you more room to grow. I also suggest that since you have are serving mostly static pages you use lighttpd web server. Most VPS webhosts provide lxadmin control panel for free and you can use that to manage lighttpd.
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I don't know if anyone here can really recommend anyone over Wiredtree and Knownhost regarding managed VPS hosting but it all depends whether you want managed or unmanaged VPS.
@sudhirmangla : What is your site about ( do it have heavy database connections ) as 4000-5000 unique visitors can be easily handled even by a good shared hosting plan. No need to go for VPS or dedicated server if yoru site is made up of just simple HTML pages. All you need is good bandwidth and a reliable host, who don't overload his server with thousands of other shared accounts. If you ask me for a reliable and cheap host i will like to help you with my host which is webhosting.uk.com You can try their higher cpanel hosting plan like : Supreme or Adcvance Shared hosting where you get enough bandwidth for your site. Do have a look at following link : http://www.webhosting.uk.com/cpanel-hosting.php All the best....
harrysmith is right,why do u need VPS or dedicated server when you have 4000+ unique visitors,it is not too much...
My Site is programmerworld.net and faq.programmerworld.net both are in plain HTML. I use database only for discussion form here programmerworld.net/phpbb/nfphpbb/ I have one more site developersvoice.com this site is PHP based and use database. t is using CMS drupal. From the comments above I fell that I can still use the shared hosting. I am currently using netfirms for hosting my site. It is usually stable in 2-3 times in a months site goes down due to high traffic.
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