Wordpress blog with 5k to 10k visitors a day: Is shared hosting ok?

by MarketingVet09

Posted: 13 years ago 9 replies

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I just got off the phone with a hostgator tech rep, and he's telling me I should downgrade from my VPS server to a shared hosting account and I'd actually be better off in speed / resources (not just price) if I'm only running 1 wordpress blog. Does this sound right to anyone? opinions?

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mark587905 13 years ago

That should be fine unless your likely to have any product launches that could put a heavy load on the shared server.
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- MarketingVet09 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mark587905
  
  That should be fine unless your likely to have any product launches that could put a heavy load on the shared server.
  
  wow, well.. I actually will be launchiing a product that will be downloaded, its about a 1mb free zip file.. so there may be a lot of strain.. I'm actually ok with paying more, the thing that has me all confused is he said a shared hosting would actually be BETTER, because I could get say, 25% of 12gb of ram (3gb) vs 768 cap on vps... that is stunning news to me as I've signed up with 3 different vps's in the last 3 days...
  
  would you downgrade to the shared hosting?
  
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askloz 13 years ago

Personally, you should stay well away from shared hosting... and keep the VPS and or get a dedicated server... this way you aint gotta worry about other silly webmaster messing things up, like spamming for instance with their domain addy's, the entire server gets flagged... that's why its not good to go and get hosting from godaddy, they're renowned for spammers.

More control and freedom you have, the better.
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askloz 13 years ago

Isn't that the turbo gear thingy Jeff? I wasn't sure how that worked, i got a message saying that it will speed up the site, but I need to download and install software on my pc, i figured that it wasn't worth it.
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askloz 13 years ago

arh ha, gotcha.. know what ya mean now... yeh... VBulletin and PHPBB3 forums have it built in to reduce server loads by over 50%... yeh.. awesome plugin man

Word to all, if you change / edit your pages, you must clear the cache to reflect the changes
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snowbored 13 years ago

With W3 Total Cache and your large files (downloads, videos, even images) on a CDN you SHOULD be good with shared hosting, but do you really want to risk that at your busiest time the host can shut your account down for too high of a load? It's not worth the risk to me, so anything I really care about I put on a server that I am guaranteed I won't get deactivated when my load spikes, not a shared host where I 'should' be ok. Try to use W3 Total Cache on your blog on the VPS and should notice a huge difference.
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