Should I go with Shared Hosting?

El Nacho

El Nacho

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Hey everyone,

I've been lurking for a little bit now and I'm ready to get my feet wet. I just want to start by saying thanks to everyone for providing so much useful info on this forum.

My question is this: I'm planning on doing affiliate marketing and will need to host several landing pages pointed to different offers. I'm not expecting to get a ton of traffic off the bat, but I am expecting to scale up quickly if I find a successful campaign. I'm thinking that I will need to handle about 10,000 hits/day max without any severe slowdown. I spoke with a rep at Hostgator and he told me that I could go with a Shared Hosting plan that uses a shared IP, since dedicated IPs are really only for dedicated SSLs and also because a Shared Host could handle 10,000 hits/day. I'm really planning on only having, say up to 5 domains hosted, each with a single page (no databases will be necessary at first - but, maybe in the future if I decide to host prosper202).

So,

a) Should I go with shared hosting? Or will I need a VPS? Or a dedicated server?
b) Which Shared Hosting provider would you recommend? I currently have the lowest tier Shared hosting plan w/GoDaddy, but for some reason people seem to really dislike them on this forum.

Thanks!
 


Yes. Stop thinking about it and get shared hosting. There are a million hosting companies so you will get a million different opinions. Get with something popular like HostGator and move on. Don't think a lot about these decisions or ask for to many opinions. Hosting and domains are a commodity and there is no best/worst.

If you are concerned about rapid growth go with someplace that does share, reseller, VPS and dedicated server hosting. Easy to move up in the same company.
 
Thanks for the reply, good advice. So you'd recommend HostGator then? I've heard some people having problems with Prosper202 and/or Tracking202 with them, is that something I have to worry about?
 
Hi,
I disagree that hosting is a commodity-- it most definitely is not.

Customer service, response times for support questions, quality of the hosting control panel, and willingness to assist with PHP script installations are going to be very different for different hosts.

Shared hosting is a great way to start.
Just make sure you call the host by phone and ask pointed questions before signing up.

If you are not a PHP scripter or more advanced website designer and you believe you'll need help installing that new affiliate script you have your eyes on then ask the host if that's something they will assist with if you run into problems.

Most hosts will not assist with script installation or assist in troubleshooting (Godaddy for one will not... not that I have anything against Godaddy-- you get what you pay for).

Happy host hunting,
Jim
 
I've been with hostgator for 3 years and I have no intention to cancel my account.

10000 hits on static pages can easily be handled with any shared hosting plan, buy one and upgrade to something more powerful when needed.
 
I've been using hostgator for about a year and I'm generally happy with them. They are technically reliable.

If you plan on having 10K hits/day, this should normally work well with shared hosting if your pages are not computationally expensive.

There was this one case when hostgator asked to me to do something about a website that was getting around 10K hits per day but was "expensive" because it was based on wordpress with many complex plugins enabled.

Also be adviced that hostgator is known for shutting down your websites if they think that you are using too much of their "unlimited" hosting. They would shut it down and THEN let you know.

But this doesn't happen often and overall my experience with HG has been better than with Godaddy.
 
Hi,
The downside with Hostgator has been they were not PCI compliant, at least as of a couple months back. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, since last time I used them was in Jan 2010 when I had to move a client out to a compliant host as a result.

I can talk more about security and PCI compliance in a separate thread if you folks are interested.

Best Wishes,
Jim
 
I would not use host gator... I used site5 for ages... they are pretty good... not sure if they are PCI compliant but they are popular and offer good bang for buck value.
 
karabas said:
Also be adviced that hostgator is known for shutting down your websites if they think that you are using too much of their "unlimited" hosting. They would shut it down and THEN let you know.
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Damn. I moved out of Innohosting last week because they did this to me. I now have an L3 VPS with HostGator.
 
godfly said:
Damn. I moved out of Innohosting last week because they did this to me. I now have an L3 VPS with HostGator.
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"Unlimited hosting" is sold on the premises that most people buying it don't drive the kind of traffic that would normally warrant at least a VPS. I've seen some "unlimited" hosts even throw into their TOS that if the size of your static content was 3-to-1 to your .html files (which obviously jpegs and css and such is gona be bigger) then they could also shut you down.
 
What's a decently priced VPS that offers a good amount of resources and is reliable? I'm not really looking to manually configure anything either.
 
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