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
