Hi folks, I have a website which received sudden spike in traffic when iphone 4s was announced, making my site go down and was very upset as it was a very lucrative time to earn money. Anyways past is past I was looking for a hosting services which gives me the felibility to upgrade to a plan higher so my site is working even when I have a sudden rush of visitors Please help. FYI I am on Shared hosting with Certified Hosting.
Have you thought about getting an inexpensive VPS plan? Most shared hosting plans are going to give you the same amount of resources regardless of which shared plan you have. So, even having a higher priced shared hosting plan would cause your site to go down. Really the only reason there is any price difference with shared plans is; you can have more domains, databases, email addresses, disk space, bandwidth etc. So a VPS should fit your needs.
Most hosts will allow you to upgrade your plan to cover increased bandwidth, etc. If your current host does not do that, it's time to move.
Agreed. Infact, providers should also offer the option to upgrade to VPS or dedicated server as well in case the shared resources become an issue.