[vv1099]

Hi all, I'm a budding website owner looking for advice on what will suit my needs over the next year. I have at most a few hundred visitors a day now, but things will be growing. Here are a few details:

Expected needs over next year:
1) from 2000-10000 visitors a day
2) Need managed services (Shared hosting or managed VPS/Server)

Conditions:
1) mix of static and wordpress
2) wordpress theme is quite light on needs (see below)


*Wordpress details:
1) lightweight theme
2) Removed as many database calls as possible (comments, date, author, blog name etc are removed. Just the post title and post contents are retrieved during the loop) The sidebar is one text widget with hand placed links.
3) No comments, pingbacks, or logged in users besides myself
4) ~40 custom added if-else-ifelse statement per page load
5) Minimal graphics - ~30KB, most of which is reused in theme on each page - maybe 15KB unique on some pages
6) No fancy widgets, flash chat, or anything similar
7) minimal plugins - all in one seo, Pagebar2, Google XML Sitemaps, WordPress Database Backup.

I am moving from my current host as I am not satisfied. Will a decent shared hosting fit my needs? Would I be better off with a VPS?

Anyone run a similar situation with shared hosting care to share their experience? How many visitors a day to your wordpress sites and which host?

Anything else you can think of, please let me know.

[B_M_W]

What is your present host?

[ImpliHosting]

PM me, I'd say a VPS Managed server for you needs.

Whats your budget? PM me i can help you.

[Absinth]

Taking into account your specifications, I'd like to draw your attention to serverpoint.com VPS hosting plans. Their long history in this business gives the reasons to treat it as the company with highly redundant servers and quality support.

[ImpliHosting]

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[squatrani]

you are most likely going to want VPS and to be honest if your really getting 8000-10000 visitors a day you are going to want to very seriously consider dedicated servers. With that much traffic you should have a profitable website and any down time is lost money.

When looking for a web host you are definitely going to want reliability with that much traffic and good customer support for the inevetible problems that will come your way (such as down time). also and most importantly look for a host that will allow you to move up in the type of hosting. It's be good if you could start out with VPS and than as traffic builds if you feel its necessary move up to dedicated hosting. If you don't have to switch web hosts but simply servers at the same web host it will make the transition a lot less painful.

Some web hosts I know that have such a configuration:
Lunarpages (windows & linux) & midphase (windows)

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[Anatoly]

go with VPS for now, shared hosting is for one page websites, if you have an active community and growing website then you need the flexibility a VPS offers.

[Iron-man]

You need to find a host who understands your specific needs, and who can sit down with you and talk about what your needs are, and how that host can accommodate for those needs. I've got to know that webintellects.com is stable company which is competent to the clients. Contact their representative and he/she will explain you everything you need for wordpress. I am sure that VPS hosting would be much more better and faster than shared one.

[microvps]

I agree with other guys there. I assume that you need to start with VPS server. That is good solution for you and the number visitors you have

[ImpliHosting]

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Including the following:

- 24/7 Support
- Free UK Toll Phone
- 50% On current month and 10% OFF recurring.

PM me for more information.

[orange655321]

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[hermawan]

Actually your site is working just fine with shared hosting.

[BarKeeper]

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