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[ARS]

We are looking for a reliable hosting company that fit our needs. We need no more than 500 MB of disk space. But we need at least 60 GB of monthly transfer. We can not find an affordable plan that fit that because most plans offer a big amount of disk space that we do not need and then the price is too high.
We are www.socceraccess.com a site related with Soccergames and news with more than 30000 impressions a day.

Thanks for your help.

[MilkMan]

Might wanna put this in the request forum

[EasyNetwork]

You will need dedicated

[IGobyTerry]

Originally posted by EasyNetwork
You will need dedicated

Not at all. As long as the site doesn't put too much strain on the server, you could stay on a shared server, or a semi-dedicated server.

Anyway, I'd check out the shared webhosting specials forum. If you don't see anything there, try posting in the web hosting requests. The monthly price should be around $55 to $75.

[EasyNetwork]

Eh?

"We are www.socceraccess.com a site related with Soccergames and news with more than 30000 impressions a day.
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[IGobyTerry]

I fail to see your point. Seeing as their website is down I cannot see what type of pages they have on their site. Say if they were all HTML pages and had a number of soccer video's on their site that were downloaded. Then strain on the server would be minimal. However, if it were a pure PHP/CGI/ASP and Database driven site and that's where all the traffic came from then they would need a dedicated server.

Without the proper imformation I do not know. However, it's useless to direct them to a dedicated server when they more than likely are not in need of one. A good managed server would cost a around $225 dollars a month, while a shared plan could cost them half that.

[sprintserve]

30,000 impressions is fine. It may not need a dedicated server. There are many reasons that determine if they need or do not need it.

1. Is the pages dynamic? If it is static pages, obviously 30000 impressions means nothing much.

2. Is there databases interaction involved? And what's the size? This obviously can affect it a fair bit, and database sites tends to place a bigger strain.

3. If there's scripts used, is the scripts written well optimised? Some scripts do take less load than others.

4. What's the distribution of visitor's visits? Obviously if all of those impressions are heavily concentrated within a short window, that will place a load that's pretty high. In contrast, if the visits are distributed evenly over the day, then that number of impressions is fine as it is.


In short, do not be so quick to be trigger happy and conclude based on incomplete facts. Understanding the client unique circumstances is more important. In this case, it is still incomplete facts, so it is inconclusive whether a dedicated server is needed or not.

[EasyNetwork]

OK, its just me but slapping site with news system and videos with 30k hits on shared server doesnt make sense. unless you dont care about your clients.

[EasyNetwork]

http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:8cDNqmbjYWIC:http://www.socceraccess.com/+%22socc...hl=en&ie=UTF-8




Nice ads

[sprintserve]

Read my post again. It isn't against you or anyone for that matter In any case, where did you get the information that it has a news system or videos? News can be served on static html as well (one of my points above). Videos are just downloads, and downloads doesn't take up as much resources as most people think. (other than bandwidth) But if the client is paying for the bandwidth, by all means.

As for the cheap shot that the rest don't care about our clients, I think on the converse, we show that we care a lot more by understanding their unique circumstances, including potential clients instead of making conclusions based on incomplete information.

[EasyNetwork]

"instead of making conclusions based on incomplete information."

*google cache power*

[IGobyTerry]

Originally posted by EasyNetwork
"instead of making conclusions based on incomplete information."

*google cache power*

The google cache which shows that it is a heavy download's site.

[EasyNetwork]

If you didnt notice there is php involved in news/download sections.

[sprintserve]

Originally posted by EasyNetwork
"instead of making conclusions based on incomplete information."

*google cache power*

I said what I have to say, and that cache don't prove anything. That can be a static page for all your know, and video downloads even if they do have it doesn't affect anything. It also depends on other factors, such as whether DBs is used, or even the distribution of the visitors over the day, which that cache shows nothing about.

Anyway, I am not interested to go on a tit-for-tat exchange. I given my points, and you haven't justified your simplistic statement about the need for a dedicated server. That's all I am going to say, and I am going to leave this thread.

[EasyNetwork]