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By mwu on
I am looking for a dedicated hosting company.
Rackspace is $425/mo to start, though they do sound excellent.
I found this info, which I wanted to share since it actually quotes the number of visitors at which you want to move to dedicated.
http://www.thehostingnews.com/secart18.html
If you simply have a brochure-ware web site, then virtual hosting is for you. When you have a site that is more than a brochure whether you are selling something on the Internet, or you have a very popular site and you get more and more traffic a shared site may not be able to keep up with that. If your site has a number of visitors in the low-thousands per day, you probably want to think about getting a dedicated server.
Another reason revolves around security. Whether you have data that you really want to protect, or if you happen to have a high-profile site that is a target of hackers, dedicated is preferable. Typically sites on a shared environment are less secure for a variety of reasons. So as you start to get more and more serious about security, the dedicated environment makes more sense for you.
Additionally, when you're in a shared environment you are in many ways at the mercy of all the other customers in that shared environment. So if there's another customer on that box that's doing something bad - that may be using up all the resources of that server your customers and your site is effected by that.
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godaddy
has anyone tried godaddy hosting?
shared
dedicated
virtual dedicated
1 bad review of godaddy
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286277
2004
this is where the problems start
they set my account to only handle 1 domain through plesk
they tell me to contact plesk, plesk tells me to contact them
eventually it's fixed
and all is well
they don't have a toll free hosting number
so i have to keep spending money calling them long distance
tech support tells me to call advanced tech support
advanced tech support tells me i need to talk to a higher level support who doesn't have a number
from here it just keeps getting ridiculous
i asked for the server's filepath so i could import my mysql databases
i was told to google it
i was put on hold for 15 minute intervals
i was transfered all over the place
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?s=4fba791192723ee62706480d1...
a favorable review from 2006
slower
a story about a dedicted account that ran slower than shared
from sitepoint
company B: Several people were running on a shared hosting account with relatively busy forums. The company introduced new offers for dedicated machines, it cost about twice as much (for comparable space/traffic etc), but you didn't have to compete with resources. The people that switched were pretty unhappy - for their kind of site the dedicated packs were underpowered. So even though they were paying twice as much as before, they were getting less performance. The reason as it turned out, is that the company is very lenient on their shared accounts and leaves plent of room on the big machines they use for shared hosting. Might have to do with the fact that they had just moved to a much bigger data center and (probably) bought a lot of very powered machines. In fact I know someone with a busy forum and ~ 1M Pageviews/month that is still using their cheapest shared hosting package with php and a database.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?s=4fba791192723ee62706480...
vps
vps not good if you have bottlenecks.
vps is good for security
Only if you need the root access to the machine for flexibility reasons. If resources (like cpu, memory, disk i/o) are the bottlenecks I doubt people will be happy with a VPS.
westhost
westhost had a vps bug with base url and google.
but they openly admitted it and solved it.
(unlike site5, which has been removing complaints from its forums)
http://forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?t=9033
http://my.execpc.com/~keithp/bdlogwh.htm
a bad experience
I then signed up with WestHost ($8.95/mo). Don't believe their claims of "24/7 technical support" or "99.9% uptime". In the first month my site went down twice. The first instance was like the above, where the server did not respond to http requests but I could ftp into it. The second time it went down completely. (They claimed it was a router problem on the back-bone, but my site didn't receive any hits from anywhere. If it was a back-bone problem a lot more sites than just mine would have been down and it wouldn't have taken over 6 hours to discover/resolve it.) My site went down around 10 pm, I discovered it around 12:30 am and promptly sent an e-mail to their "24/7 e-mail technical support" address. I did not receive a response until 6:35 am and my site as not back up until 7 am. My first outage was not as long, but in another way was much worse. I had spent the entire weekend e-mailing organizations asking them to take a look at my site. When most of them opened up their e-mail Monday morning and clicked on the link in the e-mail message they got a "server is not responding" error. An entire weekend's worth of work down the drain. My site had gone down at 3:30 am and they knew nothing about it until I e-mailed them at 8:30 am. It then took them another hour to get the site up and running. Again, all this within the first 30 days.