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Voltaire

Voltaire

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Hi,
I'm very new to Affiliate Marketing. I've been sucking in information for the last two weeks, bought a domain and set it up with the hostgator.com baby plan. I'm on the verge of trying my luck with my first cpa-campaigns and I've been planning to use paid traffic directed to sites on my hostgator account. Right now I wanted to get familiar with Prosper 202 but I noticed that Hostgator does not support it with anything but VPS Level 5+ or a dedicated server. After browsing several forums on the issue, I have encountered several statements like

"Installing Prosper on shared hosting just shows how little you care about making money online."

or

"Never use shared hosting with paid traffic. You will lose traffic and money on your campaigns."

So, what's the general problem with shared hosting and paid traffic? (Hostgator's restrictions when it comes to Prosper 202 are apperantly linked to security- and performance problems.) I hope, someone could clear that up for me. Thanks in advance.
 


The general problem with shared hosting is that you are sharing resources with a much larger number of people than you would be in a well run VPS. This means it's more likely that your expensive paid traffic hits a slow, or down, "cash register".

The reason for the strong wording is that the only reason to choose shared hosting is reduced cost. If you're paying for traffic, that savings is likely paltry compared to the cost of the traffic.

That's the high level, but it doesn't mean that any VPS is better than any shared hosting plan. There are crappy oversold VPS plans that would be *worse* than a well managed shared plan.

Match your platform spend such that it's relative to the risk of lost sales. That would drive the choice between shared, VPS, and dedicated, as well as what quality level for each.
 
Thank you. VPS seems to be the smarter choice then. I've seen that I could save money by going for "unmanaged" VPS hosting, but right now I find that too intimidating. I don't have any experience in that territory.

Could you, or anyone, recommend some VPS hosting plans that include CPanel? My budget is limited, therefore a compromise between quality and pricing will have to be found.

What do you think about

serverpronto.com (30$/month)
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and

interserver.net (22$/month)?
[link removed] ?

(For some reason my reply has not been posted at the first attempt. It might be up for review because of the links, so I give it another try without them.)
 
Voltaire said:
Thank you. VPS seems to be the smarter choice then. I've seen that I could save money by going for "unmanaged" VPS hosting, but right now I find that too intimidating. I don't have any experience in that territory.

Could you, or anyone, recommend some VPS hosting plans that include CPanel? My budget is limited, therefore a compromise between quality and pricing will have to be found.

What do you think about

serverpronto.com (30$/month)
[link removed]

and

interserver.net (22$/month)?
[link removed] ?

(For some reason my reply has not been posted at the first attempt. It might be up for review because of the links, so I give it another try without them.)
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Stick to WiredTree's managed VPS. Use the coupon code 'MakeTheTransition' and you'll get half off for the first two months (about $25/month).

I don't work for them or anything like that, I've just been using them for ages and they're spot on. As your traffic increases, you can scale up with them. Another option is KnownHost. You can use KH15LIFE for 15% off, and I believe they only charge you at the end of the month/30-day billing cycle, so it gives you sometime to rack up dem profits nomsaiyin.

Anyway, hope that helped.

inb4 peasant

P.S.-- and no, it doesn't matter whether you get the full SSD plan or the SSD enhanced blah blah. Their basic plan will do you nicely.
 
I am with bulletproofvps and I am happy with them, you can do pretty much everything, 100% uptime
 
OVH has what you're looking for, google ovh hosting and you'll see their 1.69 euros/mo root access VPS plans that have amazing DDoS protection. I actually just made another post in a different topic recommending OVH to someone else, and I normal never go out of my way to promote companies like this (without getting a cut, that is), but their DDoS protection is so amazingly good at an incredible price that they fuckin' deserve it. Its refreshing that they offer such great protection at a minimal cost and their protection beats some of the hosting providers that charge an extra ~200/mo for 1gbps port protection.. In their plans its just included for free. Simply, amazing.
 
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