Question by allanbreck: I am about to launch a website but dont know which hosting plan to use?
I am currently with godaddy on their economy shared hosting plan.
The problem is I have no idea how popular the site is going to be. It is a UK based site dealing with Gold Panning - goldpanningsuppliesdotcodotuk. I think if there is some mention of Gold Panning on the television there may be 400 hits in a day, but most of the time probably around 20. But I have no real way of knowing until a spike hits. I am going to announce its launch on a very popular gold panning forum, so would like to be prepared for about 200 hits on the first day. That may be way optimistic but I would hate if the site crashed and lost all that good will.
If you look at the site you can see there are two embedded youtube videos. If you click twice I assume the viewer is consuming youtube bandwidth, but if just once am I right in assuming this would consume my bandwidth?
Say there would be a max of 20 people watching these videos simultaneously. Would the economy virtual dedicated server be capable of handling this? I would like to try this for the first month, or maybe until the first TV article induced peak. And then scale back if the estimates were over optimistic.
Would a godaddy VDS be capable of handling this.
Question 2) Can you check out the site and tell me if the current download time is acceptable. Particularly when you click gold equipment. And then Gold Pans. Is it just my imagination or is it very slow? Would moving from the economy shared host to the premium shared host speed things up? Would moving to a VDS speed things up.
You can probably see I am all over the place. Trying to understand how different hosting plans can deal with numbers of simultaneous hits/effect on speed/how to calculate bandwidth used per hit etc.
If you were using the estimated figures I have provided which plan would you go for.
I have to eplain the reasoning to my cousin whos site it is, so much detail would be appreciated. Please dont advise me to move from godaddy as I have found this stressful enough as it is. Migrating host 1 month before launch and losing the yearly subscription would freak me out!
Best answer:
Answer by Test M
In terms of overall bandwidth, you will obviously not have a problem. In terms of stress on the server during a spike, it is possible but I don't think this will be something to worry about. - actually I just looked at your site and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. You couldn't dream of having this problem with your videos being hosted on youtube.
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