Should I Upgrade Plan and/or Cleanup Server Space?

bradmc

bradmc

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I'm about to launch a new product, and as it's pretty unique a number of large JVZoo affiliates have signed up to promote it. I expect this to be my biggest launch to date - by far.

Sure, server meltdown is fine if you've set up everything with a nice margin of safety, but than had 10 times the expected traffic - but it's a real bummer if you were a moron who didn't prepare as needed.

Because of this, I'd like to make sure everything's set up right and would really appreciate your advice on this.

Current Setup:
* WP site, possibly slow loading theme
* Landing page streams a vid from my vimeo account (not locally hosted). Otherwise nothing very heavy there, except it being WP.
* Buyers enter a members' zone, where the FrontEnd product is available for watching online (again vimeo) and BackEnd products will probably be set for downloading.
* Currently using HostGator's shared Baby Plan. Too late to switch hosts (launching this Tuesday and enough work till then as it is) but switching plans or servers is possible.
* My other sites using this account are pretty dormant. However, some have zillions of inodes.

Questions:
1. At what rate of incoming traffic (Landing Page only) should I have to switch plans, and what to?

2. Do I have to do this beforehand (based on expected traffic) or is migration (within same host) quick?

3. Do I have to inform my host about the launch? Any specific info that I should provide?

4. Does streaming from Vimeo load my server?

5. How important is it to clean-up other websites that I have on this server? They're pretty dormant, but some have zillions of inodes.

6. Backend products are heavyweight downloads (several gigs of videos). Should I set them on external servers or locally? which external providers do you recommend?

7. Anything else that you think I should know.

Sorry for sounding like a complete noob, but I guess in this aspect that's what I am. Been marketing online for ages, but my previous products required few resources and I never bothered checking this aspect till now.

Thanks guys!
 


2. Do I have to do this beforehand (based on expected traffic) or is migration (within same host) quick?

No. it's not necessary to inform them. If your using their baby plan (25000-30000 views/traffic) is allowed and in the initial stages I don't think you will be getting that much traffic in 3-4 months ( Though I wish for the opposite).
 
Hi!

1. Static landing pages should generate almost no load on a shared server. If you're behind a CDN you should be in especially good shape. Any dynamic elements could limit the impact of caching, however, and less caching means more resources used.

2. HostGator can migrate sites internally pretty quickly. I'd guess that most hosting providers can migrate internally faster than they can externally. Your current host will be better able to update DNS, reduce downtime, etc. There may be other web hosts that are exceptionally good at this, but I'm not aware of any off-hand.

3. You do not have to inform your host, but I strongly encourage it. This becomes an effective requirement when traffic is expected to be very large, such as when you or your product is appearing on national television. You don't want your site to go down, and we don't want our other customers to be affected by what at first may look like a DDoS.

4. No.

5. It shouldn't be a problem, but if you have zillions of inodes without good reason we'd be happy to help you with that.

6. This is where things get interesting. A hundred people downloading multi-gigabyte files at once is going to have a noticeable effect on the servers. This is because, as opposed to a page view, downloads cause long-running HTTP requests, and shared environments are not designed to handle high number of concurrent requests of that type. I'd have to talk to my admins about this, but my first thought would be... YouTube? Change video privacy settings - Computer - YouTube Help

7. Reach out to your host, and reach out early. HostGator, and likely any other major hosting provider, can certainly bring solutions to the table to help ensure that you are able to make the most out of the opportunity.

Good luck!
 
I think you should upgrade the plan because in coming months your site traffic will increase more.So automatically you should go for bigger plan
 
Expierienced Server Administrator myself, you can follow GatorDundom suggestion #2, CDN.

Signup at cloudflare for free plan, switch DNS over to them, and put your html files there, it will be fully cached, and you can get tons of visitors.

Only thing what sucks about CDN is that you gotta purge files always, if you make modifications.

PS: English is not my native language.
 
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