Can shared hosting handle this amount of traffic?

I would be inclined to say yes. Hostgator will shut your site (just the one thats causing the problem) down when they see you are close the limit of resources and contact you with further resolutions (and the option to upgrade)

Hey There,

One solution is your VPS.

Cheers

You may try netfirms web hosting.

hey man, cant speak for hostgator but i know my shared account at bluefur hosting handled a lot...i was sending like 100+ people a second for hours and hours, days and days....it did crash a couple time but was up almost right away

blufir has great support as well

Thanks for the info.

But what what if you get 100 visitors a minute for the same minisite info i provided above? will it be able to handle it then?

Okay thanks for all the info!!! Just one last ?, even if you have intensedebate installed (IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website), it will still work out fine, right? And if anyone can tell me from experience, that will greatly help!

I WOULD be inclined to say it is POSSIBLE, if most are HTML, assuming the load is LIGHT, but bill is right! NOBODY can give you an answer from experience, except maybe hostgator. I mean unless you get a HUGE consensus from hostgator users, or many are currently on YOUR server and have seen it support that, they can't be very experienced.

HOSTGATOR, on the otherhand, may have experience with what their servers handle, and the load of the average user, and be able to tell you the minimum performance they shoot for. They DO have a minimum because if it is too high, their profits DROP! If it is too low, customers will call tech support and complain.

BTW STATIC site in my book means HTML! NOT PHP or some such SERVING HTML. If PHP or whatever serves HTML the overall potential for failure increases, because they have a higher per page load, and have another process to deal with.

Intensedebate apparently is NOT made for a static site. That means that you will have the CMS AND intense debate AND the HTTP server. So YEP, the ability to support users will DROP! ALSO, apache has measures to limit ITS load on the server. processes running under it will increase the load past that planned. Every webhost has to allow for that, and they do, but that minimum performance level is NOT for YOU, but ALL the users on the system. If you do this, and the performance is affected elsewhere, the host will start asking for a higher monthly price, movement to another service/system, etc....

Steve

Hostgator allowed 2000-3000 unique visitors per day, if you got more traffic they may shut your site .. try to shift VPS if you got more traffic..