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[ruusky]

Hi, Web Hosting community

I got a question in terms of hosts, I plan to start a wordpress blogging website, and I want a reliable service and something that will not screw me over for high traffic. In other terms what are good providers that you can start off with low traffic and as traffic gets higher it will be easy for you to upgrade to a vps server then a dedicated server, and of course it has to support wordpress.

Another question of the blue is why do most hosting providers provide unlimited traffic bandwidth etc but people stick to dedicated servers why do that if for 5 dollars hosts charge for unlimited.

Thanks

[Preetam]

Originally Posted by ruusky

Another question of the blue is why do most hosting providers provide unlimited traffic bandwidth etc but people stick to dedicated servers why do that if for 5 dollars hosts charge for unlimited.

"Unlimited" is, in a sense, a lie. You have to read their Terms of Service very carefully. Most people would rather go with guaranteed features even if they have to pay a bit more.

[gmarvnet-hosting]

Originally Posted by Bitcable

"Unlimited" is, in a sense, a lie. You have to read their Terms of Service very carefully. Most people would rather go with guaranteed features even if they have to pay a bit more.

This is 100% correct. Going with a unlimited host most of the time means that once you hit a limit they don't like they try to get rid of you by making you upgrade or move to a more expensive package.

[ruusky]

Oo ok thanks ... so what do you guys recommend in general for my situation start with a vps?

[Jedito]

Do you already have a popular blog? or do you have still everything on paper?

[ruusky]

I have it on paper so far

[Zybrite]

Most hosts will have no problem scaling you up as you need it, and will in fact offer a helping hand. We've had one particular customer go all the way from never owning a WordPress site to getting 20k traffic per day. We've upgraded him as he needed the whole way through. I guess it just depends on how much the host truly appreciates your business as a client.

As for the unlimited question- the truth is, nothing is unlimited. Everything is finite in some sense, so although you may not be capped on diskspace or bandwidth per-say, you'll experience caps somewhere else such as CPU usage.

[ruusky]

Thanks for the info, ill check your host out.. any other suggestions?

[Jedito]

The start with a host with good reputation on this forum and you should be fine, at least for some months while you work in make your blog grow.

[Zybrite]

Originally Posted by ruusky

Thanks for the info, ill check your host out.. any other suggestions?

Do you know any exact requirements you're going to need besides scalability?

[TheJoker]

If a host does not "screw you over for high traffic", they are screwing over every other account on the server. Start shared and move up to a VPS and dedi when your traffic warrants it.

[fshagan]

Originally Posted by ruusky

Thanks for the info, ill check your host out.. any other suggestions?

I have a VPS at MDDHosting.com. A VPS would definitely be overkill for what you need right now, but they do have shared hosting that gets a lot of compliments, and they have the upgrade path you're seeking, from shared to VPS to dedicated.

Mike (the "M" in MDD) has experience with Wordpress, and the customers with shared hosting are very complimentary about the servers. They just optimized MySQL on all the shared servers and reports from that so far are good. While I can't speak to their shared hosting from personal experience, I can recommend them based on their support, which is very good.

[ruusky]

Thanks guys

[ruusky]

What about hostgator? They have vps and dedicated services? Im just exploring my options with different peoples opinions

[bath-hosting]

Is this a new start blog? If so, keep it simple, go for something cheap, but reliable. Go for Shared Hosting for now with a good service. As fshagan says, VPS would be an overkill for a new upstart blog. Get your self off the ground then work up. Afterall, 3 months down the line (lets hope not but..) you might change your mind.