I'm going to be running a couple websites and forums here in the next couple months. I imagine a lot having a good amount of traffic. And not too worried about the price of it. As I'll probably be looking to pay all costs for the year up front.
Hosting ?
- Thread starter Raymond
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Make sure the host has the payment option your looking for. I don't even think twice about a host that doesn't accept paypal. Its not that I don't trust anyone, well people I've never met face to face in person I don't trust, and have every reason not to, for you don't know what the company is really like, you don't really know if they exist at all..
You should try Vultr VPS, they have a budget plan just only $2,5/mo for VPS hosting. I think that will suite your requirements.
WebHostVoice
Familiar Face
If you will receive to much traffic or this is just a planning that you can get lots of traffic then first try Shared hosting and If your usage increase then moved to VPS.
VPS is not required for new website unless you install a software which required a isolated environment with custom modules.
VPS is not required for new website unless you install a software which required a isolated environment with custom modules.
go with a shared account or a reseller account. so that way u can add your other sites with out having to pay to host another site. also if you go with shared try to go with addon domains that way u can save a dollar or two 🙂
Sometimes shared hosting will not meet all requirements that the OP want, example for traffic, number of sites running, CPU, bandwidth, disk space,...But I think all advises above are right, go with shared hosting first then upgrade to higher plans in the future if you need to do that.
Unless you can not afford VPS
Agree with you 🙂
chandrabhanmaktal
New Arrival
You can go with a shared hosting first, after that you can upgrade your plans according to your requirements. depending on the traffic your website gets.
vpspromocodes
New Arrival
You can use linode.com, the price is very cheap, with 1GB Ram package only $5 / month
As far as VPS' are concerned, they're a lot cheaper than people think, sometimes as low as $3/month for a couple of gigabytes of RAM, which is enough to run just about anything.
The tricky part is making sure that you run the updates (sometimes every week), as otherwise you could be opening yourself up to some nasty problems.
Also, don't forget to backup your database and files regularly, some include this in the price, while others charge extra, be vigilant.
Especially when you update things, you *really* don't want to lose your data to an OS upgrade gone wrong. Backup, backup, backup. Backing up should become second nature, imprinted into your psyche.
Running updates are things your host will usually do for you, also if you use cPanel, you run into trouble installing certain versions of things, or even things at all, so you might wind up in the wild west that is SSH, although to be fair, shared hosts usually play it safe with what they install too.
For instance, they seem to generally avoid Nginx which is significantly faster than Apache, as Apache has better compatibility with cPanel.
Also, varying on the VPS, some will do more work for you than others. If yours doesn't do DNS, then you might want to consider using Cloudflare's DNS, it's free and they can help to take the load off your site for other things.
And, this should probably be said, but never... ever... leave an exposed installation of phpMyAdmin publically accessible. Some bots scan every possible IP in the entire internet looking for those and try a zillion different possible path names.
If you're not using a control panel, it's probably better to just manage the database over shell, than to use phpMyAdmin. Also, Cloudflare's your friend, they filter out a huge number of bad bots, as does shared hosts in some cases, most likely, but Cloudflare is much, much more thorough.
The tricky part is making sure that you run the updates (sometimes every week), as otherwise you could be opening yourself up to some nasty problems.
Also, don't forget to backup your database and files regularly, some include this in the price, while others charge extra, be vigilant.
Especially when you update things, you *really* don't want to lose your data to an OS upgrade gone wrong. Backup, backup, backup. Backing up should become second nature, imprinted into your psyche.
Running updates are things your host will usually do for you, also if you use cPanel, you run into trouble installing certain versions of things, or even things at all, so you might wind up in the wild west that is SSH, although to be fair, shared hosts usually play it safe with what they install too.
For instance, they seem to generally avoid Nginx which is significantly faster than Apache, as Apache has better compatibility with cPanel.
Also, varying on the VPS, some will do more work for you than others. If yours doesn't do DNS, then you might want to consider using Cloudflare's DNS, it's free and they can help to take the load off your site for other things.
And, this should probably be said, but never... ever... leave an exposed installation of phpMyAdmin publically accessible. Some bots scan every possible IP in the entire internet looking for those and try a zillion different possible path names.
If you're not using a control panel, it's probably better to just manage the database over shell, than to use phpMyAdmin. Also, Cloudflare's your friend, they filter out a huge number of bad bots, as does shared hosts in some cases, most likely, but Cloudflare is much, much more thorough.
Agree with these points. I've just migrated to Cloudflare + CDN + Free SSL. It's better now.
hehe Okay. Then why are you here? You must not trust the Admin or any of the people you are interacting with?
As for the topic, I've run fully dedicated for awhile, and it's great. $37.99 a month. But, that's for un-managed, meaning you need to know Linux and it's inner workings.
I'd suggest a VPS even for new forums/sites.
Pretty sure everyone participating in this thread already knows what "hosting" is. LOL
Ricardorich
Acquaintance
What type of scalability potential is there? For example, if you start with a shared server plan, are you able to expand your space later or even switch to a dedicated server environment? Or does the provider you are considering specialize in one environment?
you just said that n another topics, but yeah agree with going with the cloud based hosting
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