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[evil_master2120]

Hi All,

Thanks in advance for reading post.

I am new to this forum and would like to ask some questions. I am planning to host a site which is underdevelopment. website is a medium size but it all depends upon the number of users access this website. First I was thinking of launching this website from home internet connection but after researching alot I found that home connection doesnt support more than 1.5mb upload speed.

Does only the upload speed matters?

I been to some virtual hosting websites where they are virtual server you have control over your server etc, I have a bad experience with memset because of the idiot updated the unathenticated package to some servers which brought my server down as well.

I am really interested to know your thinking? what type of connection /server should I go for? Do you know dedicated server will be a better option or not as can see uk2 dot net website?

I will appreaciate for your reply on it.

Thankyou

[Matt R]

Originally Posted by evil_master2120

I am really interested to know your thinking? what type of connection /server should I go for? Do you know dedicated server will be a better option or not as can see uk2 dot net website?

I've got a few VPS's at the VPS.Net UK location (It's at UK2) and I've never had a single issue.

Their pricing is very, very reasonable too.

I'd definitely recommend checking them out. However, their VPS images are *Very* barebones. Almost nothing comes pre-installed, so be prepared to 'yum -y install' a lot of things.

As far as the website, how much traffic are you expecting to get?

That's what it all comes down to -- how much traffic, how many concurrent users, and is it a static or dynamic website.

No home connection is suitable for web hosting (Unless you're very wealthy and have a lovely 100meg pipe from Level3 just "because you can").

[evil_master2120]

Thank you for reply.

honestly at this moment i dont know how many concurrent connections i will be getting. As a new bussiness person I will expect to go upto 10,0000000000 but as I mentioned I dont know. May be at the begining 10-50 concurrent, well it can grow or it can collapse.

What do you think what type of connection should i be getting e.g. if it is a shopping cart and 100 peoples are buying stuff at the same time it is such an assumption may be there is no connection at all in whole day.

But my plan is to add more projects into same server, do you think linux server will be best option or should i go for windows envoirnment.

[Matt R]

It seems a bit unlikely that you'll have 100 million concurrent visitors on your website at any given point in time.

Facebook doesn't even get that kind of traffic.

Honestly, from your post you might be better off with a shared hosting plan or smaller VPS.

VPS.Net offers very reasonably priced VPS's -- It would cost under $40 to get a reasonably powerful VPS with cPanel installed. And since it's cloud computing type infrastructure, upgrades are very fast so it grows as you do.

But in all honesty, I think a shared hosting plan would be more than enough -- especially if you don't have experience in server administration.

[evil_master2120]

yes i know facebook doesnt get that much users, for shopping application which connnection should i go for, do i still need to go for shared internet connection? what do you think ?


Also , I want my application to be uploading fast to users so they dont have to wait for it for long time.

[afam4eva]

A VPS will be your best bet.

[eonhost]

I would suggest you go with cloud hosting as it would be scalable as and when needed..

Thanks

[ldcdc]

I'll be the odd one here and say that good shared hosting is probably all that you need, unless you have very serious reasons to believe that you'll be receiving tens of thousands of visitors anytime soon, and the sales will make it desirable to go for a dedicated server, or a VPS.

Sad as it may sound, the vast majority of sites will never grow beyond the point where shared hosting can't do the job anymore.