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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Can u provide statistics from your current load/hour & speed? tbh if bandwidth is not a problem, I would go for shared hosting.
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.
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.
I would say not to go with shared host. You need at least an low end vps to cater for 3x of your traffic.