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VincentVanJones
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05 Jan 2010, 3:07 am

Teenhut is many times larger then WP, and works very fast/smooth. Maybe as the owner what he uses? Just a thought.



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05 Jan 2010, 3:11 am

4mb of RAM? I hope that is 4 GB of RAM, otherwise things might not operate as smoothly as envisioned... the bigger pipeline should help immensely, though the server seems like a slightly beefier version of my G5...?


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05 Jan 2010, 3:33 am

Bluehost is hardly one step up from Geocities, even running a webserver from home would be
better then one of those bargain basement web hosts like bluehost. Sure they would be ok
for a smaller website with low traffic, I can see it would be a huge bottle neck for wp given the
amount of users here on a typical evening.



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05 Jan 2010, 6:57 am

VincentVanJones wrote:
I assume that WP is reaching storage/bandwidth issues then? If this is
the case, instead of spending $4800, maybe just use something much
cheaper like Bluehost? http://www.bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html

Unlimited bandwidth. storage, backup, etc with multi media things like
streaming video you can add on the site. It's something like $100 a
year.

Maybe I am missing something here...


I've used a few discount hosting places before, they are all shared hosting. They may say unlimited bandwith, but in hosting lingo, that's referencing how much you get to transfer. I haven't used Bluehost before, however I have found several discount hosting places have stability issues. As I post this message, I see we currently have 32,162 members, and of those, almost 400 are online now. This will create a huge load on the server. A site this size needs dedicated hosting. We need bandwidth not just measured by maximum transfers, but also measured in transfer speed. With this many users, 100Mb/sec (what most discount servers end up sharing) is likely not fast enough. To get good hosting with a minimum transfer speed specified, you are gonna have to spend some bucks. Good hosting for high-traffic sites is NOT cheep.

EDIT: I posted the above before I saw Alex's post. Sounds like he is placing the server in the IDEAL location.



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05 Jan 2010, 8:22 pm

Friskeygirl wrote:
Bluehost is hardly one step up from Geocities, even running a webserver from home would be
better then one of those bargain basement web hosts like bluehost. Sure they would be ok
for a smaller website with low traffic, I can see it would be a huge bottle neck for wp given the
amount of users here on a typical evening.


Friskygirl,
This is a FABULOUS site! -------> http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hos ... rs/pricing
you can set up everything and see how much it costs!

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