Hosting WordPress

  • Resolved do77

    (@do77)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,
    I know that my question doesn’ really match the forum but in other one’s I never get a helpful answer. So I hope that someone here can give me some advice:

    Current Hosting: GoDaddy | Shared Hosting | 150 GB Space | 1,500 GB Transfer

    My Blog: I am going to run a blog with soly text, no pictures or anything else. People are able to register though and write their own posts. Besides that it is hard to get a lot of users etc., I just have a general question: How far do I come with this type of hosting? GoDaddy is not very flexible and charges you right after you passed the allowed Bandwidth and you have to pay a penalty …..

    I would appreciate a rough guideline, like how many User could I host with this plan and how many visitors could I have. When would I need something like VPS Hosting or a Dedicated Host? I simply have no understanding of the whole hosting thing. I would also appreciate a link that teaches me a little bit about it…

    Thank you,
    do77

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  • Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Why is it so hard to find an answer on that question? Is it only me who struggles with the whole hosting and server thing? 🙁

    s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    It is hard to get an answer because it is an almost impossible question to answer with any conviction. Here are some things to think about.

    Users, per se, take up very little space in a WP database. You’d need a tremendous number of users to occupy 150GB. What does take space are the posts that the user write, but even those don’t take up that much space.

    Here is the problem though. A post that happens to be three sentences long takes up less space than a doctoral thesis. I don’t know what you or your users are going to be posting.

    The bandwidth question is similar. The number of visitors you can get depends upon how much each visitor has to load in order to view the page– html, css, images, javascript, plus content. There is no easy way for anyone the forums to make that calculation.

    Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your answer! I know that its hard to give advice without any information but I was thinking I could a rough guideline. Anyway, you are probably right and my question is almost impossible to answer on. So let’s just suppose the following:

    10.000 Users
    each User posts one doctorial thesis within a month
    only text, no javascript or pictures
    2.000 Visitors a day

    I KNOWWW … let’s just suppose 🙂

    Would my current hosting plan be enough or would they kick me out? If so, how much effort would it be to transfer to another host/server at this point?

    Hope that makes it a bit easier to answer on 🙂 Thank you guys,
    do77

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Yeah you might have problems with that bandwidth if your visitors view a lot of the posts, but then again, maybe they subscribe via RSS and don’t spend as much time at your site.

    Best advice–start your blog. Backup often with all that new material. If it gets slow, install a plugin that handles caching. If it grows beyond allotted capacity, then purchase a larger plan.

    Backup often WordPress Backups

    Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks MichaelH!

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