Best Hosting for Product Launch

Good question, maybe you can still use hostgator shared but have all graphics and video on Amazon S3.

Server melt down is a great problem to have!! :-D

In theory, any good hosting service should be able to offer high bandwidth and enough resources for your website not to crash. Have you looked at other hosing companies (besides hostgator). There's Dreamhost and Bluehost you could consider. Look for reviews about their bigger hosting plans first.

Sounds like you need cloud autoscaling, but that's a but of a headache to setup, we outsource it all.

A good VPS probably can handle the traffic.

Any hosting offers the same thing, but it all depends upon your site script to handle them. Try VPS if your shared hosting won't control it.

Test it first as the traffic can't come suddenly.

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a vps is still shared hosting folks...its not necessarily or at all better for traffic spikes. all a vps does is give your root access to tweak some settings. nothing more. now, most vps are less oversold than most shared hosting accounts, but they are still usually oversold.

hosting images and videos at amazon or something will help, although it very much depends on how your site is setup as to how much.

if you are talking about a wp site with many plugins at all, you canpretty much forget being able to handle a 100k a day traffic spike on a shared hosting setup or lowend vps. its just not setup for that.

there are a few cloud type hosting systems that will give you a better ability to the guys at liquidweb.com are good folks to work with. their storm series offers scale-ability.

if you are really expecting to get 100k type of visitors then you definitely need to spend some serious money on a solid hosting solution. 100k visitors a day puts you into the $50-200 type of price range for a dependable service. with the lower price figure there being an un-managed or limitedly managed setup. of course, all this is somewhat dependent on your site structure.

the thing is that if you are realistically expecting 100k visit, you better be ready for much more. although, unless you have a good bit of product launch experience or a good jv manager, 100k daily visits is probably pretty optimistic.

I would suggest a service like VPS cloud hosting from http://www.dalereardon.com.au/vpshosting/

They offer the ability to allocate more CPUs and RAM to a server as it requires more power and you can purchase the higher capacity for just a limited time.

Very flexible indeed.

Dale.

I have been with hostgator for a long time.They have never let me down and it was pretty easy to use

If you are expecting 100.000 visitors you better get a good dedicated server or cloud server. David Keith mention liquid web. I heard about it too but never tried it yet. I also heard wired tree and beyond hosting are also a good choice for dedicated server.

VPS alone won't really solve the problem.

I am going to do a launch, I would use Amazon Web Service, with their Auto-Scaling feature. With this, you create a server behind a load balancer, and then you set some rules when should the server be duplicated to handle more traffic. To save money, you also set rules when the last server should be removed from the load balancer.

This will, you will always have enough servers to handle your traffic.

Oh yeah, for static files like images, audios, videos, just have that on S3 at Amazon Web Service.

hostgator and bluhost are very good, but I personally prefer wpengine .. ..

If you really are expecting 100k then you need to get a dedicated server.

Anything less and your website will go down fast.

And with a website down you make no sales.

So dont go cheap with that kind of traffic.