Feedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?

December 27th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and Squirrelmail already set up for you.

For less than $10/month they give you a domain or two, X number of subdomains, and wild promises about disc space and bandwidth. You and I both know that long before you hit +2 terabytes of bandwidth your $7/month host would be shutting your site down for excessive cpu and ram usage.

So the question is, How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary? I know a lot of you have already run into or are facing this dilemma. Let’s hear from everyone on their experience with web hosting

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Michael was a bass player in a hardcore punk band in the 80's and spent the 90's building and riding custom Harleys. As strange a combination as it may seem, Mike also has some coder and sysadmin in his history as well. At 42 Mike's now a husband and dad, and works as a Corrections Officer in a maximum security lockdown unit by day, and is admin at AV Enthusiast and contributor to Connected Internet when time allows. Mike is also passionate about food and travel.

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  1. #22

    Comment by Chris Larkin on 24 June 2008:

    That is a very good question and one that is debated constantly. The problem is that the answer is different for each and every site. There are many variables that have to be considered. Chief amongst them are: how much traffic do you receive, and what are the users doing on the site? Users viewing static html are going to cause much less load on a server than users accessing database heavy sites or streaming audio and video. What is really comes does to is what quality of service you wish to provide to your users. How well is your site performing? If it is getting bogged down, or if it is getting suspended by your shared provider, it is time to upgrade in order to provide the best possible experience. Also, mlankton, thanks for the recommendation!

    Chris Larkin
    Account Executive
    Singlehop.com
    GTalk, Yahoo, Skype, MSN, AIM: SingleHopChris
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  2. #21

    Comment by mlankton on 23 June 2008:

    I had been on burst.net, and I would pay more for better service

    Singlehop and Steadfast come to mind

    Read mlankton’s latest blog post….Klipsch Icon W Series Loudspeakers>>>

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