WARNING: Can your web site fail in a product launch?

[Peter Ramos]

Hi guys,

I will be putting up a product launch for the first time ever and
being new into this part of the sales process brought something
to my attention.

Is it possible that just regular hosting will make your site crash
and loose a lot of potential sales in the release date? How many
people downloading the same product will it take for your normal
hosting server to crash? Basically, will it crash on a product
launch if you just have the basic package in your hosting services?

If yes, what do you recommend to add to your hosting package?
Maybe a dedicated server or so? I am really clueless in this
matter and would greatly appreciate any of your comments.

Any previous experience would also help out a lot.


Peter

[coreygeer]

As for doing White hat websites, I have had a really good experience with Host Gator.

I've done forums, product websites and blogs with this place and I've never used anywhere else. I've heard some horror stories of high traffic black hat type websites but honestly I think Host Gator is the best way to go if you're running a safe website.

[SMLLC]

Here are my recommendation.

Talk with your hosting company about expected traffic
MORE IMPORTANT
Talk with your MERCHANT - because that's more likely to implode when a lot of orders pure in

[Peter Ramos]

Originally Posted by SMLLC

Here are my recommendation.

Talk with your hosting company about expected traffic
MORE IMPORTANT
Talk with your MERCHANT - because that's more likely to implode when a lot of orders pure in

I thought about talking with my hosting company, but then
it occurred to me that they are going to probably just
want to sell me as thats what they do. I don't know if
they are going to be legit with their recommendation. And
as far as my merchant, I think Clickbank is already too
establish to even bother asking.

So then what to do, contact the hosting company so that they
can upsell some stuff to me (even if I don't really need it, but
since I do not know then Im an easy prey), or just keep my
regular hosting package and wait for the site blow up and loose
potential sales...

Well, I'll keep checking and again, I would really appreciate if
there is some more advice on the matter out there.


Peter

[Peter Ramos]

any other advice out there by any chance or some
experienced that you had while having your product
launch etc.?

[Andyhenry]

There's absolutely no reason for anyones website to fail during a launch.

I know you see it from some big named IMers but that's just lack of planning as it's easy to get hosting that will scale well and you just get charged extra if they need to give you more resources than you usual arrangement.

Much of the 'the launch went so well my server failed' stuff is either lies or lack of planning.

Most people won't even ever come across this issue, but if you think you will, just contact your host and tell them you're about to do a launch and you need to ensure you get the resources you need during that period.

Andy

[bminor]

Originally Posted by SMLLC

Here are my recommendation.

Talk with your hosting company about expected traffic
MORE IMPORTANT
Talk with your MERCHANT - because that's more likely to implode when a lot of orders pure in

I can subscribe to that. Especially if you accept payments via PayPal and you haven't done a lot of sales before. Because if your suddenly make a lot of sales they have some kind of alarm going off and are liable to shut down your account.
Try to get into personal communication with a representative and make sure you talk to someone who is really interested to help out his customer (you) to be successful. If you don't have this impression, find another person. And ask him what you'd have to do to avoid troubles with them and how you can directly contact him in case something should go wrong.

Sorry if this is not a direct answer to your questiin but I think these kind of troubles are much more likely than your site going down because of too many downloads.

Good luck!

[Peter Ramos]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Much of the 'the launch went so well my server failed' stuff is either lies or lack of planning.

I thought the same thing from what you are talking about...
all this being just nuts in order to just send another email
to those who did not buy the product at the launch.

Just with you all's words I am more confident that I do not have to
worry about this kind of stuff. Furthermore, I will still contact
my hosting company just in case, but I am probably not buying
anything. I am sure they will be able to help me out with my
issue rather than just try to make a sale.



Peter