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Just a note on virtualhosting.....I never used virtualhosting myself and I'd
advice ANYONE to do the same unless it's hobby project not intended to make
you any money.
No matter how good your provider is the fact that a whole bunch of people
use the same server is reason enough not to risk any of your business with it.
The more options you get related to installing/running scripts etc, etc the riskier it gets in terms of things that can go wrong.
Poorly coded scripts eating server processes even if the provider is smart
enough to limit resources per user. Traffic usage and last but not least the
risk you run for a virtual server to get attacked coz some idiot pisses some
body off enough to get his sites DDoS'ed or what not.
Support wise virtualhost servers aren't usually on the top of a provider's
priority list which in case of problems may result in longer downtimes or
stuff that may be affected by virtualhost problems.
Of course you want to keep things cheap when you start up a new project
but you should ALWAYS realise that in order to start up something and make
it successfull you need the basic requirements to do so.....proper hosting is 1
of them. If the costs of decent hosting are an issue you should ask yourself
if you believe enough in your project to start it at all. You rather run new
projects on a dedicated server you already have than going for a vhost solution.
I see so many times that turnover of sites is limited by the hosting it runs on
you wouldn't even believe it. I'm not selling hosting myself so I'm not trying
to make money when I'm saying that hosting should be the last thing you
try to budget on.
You can have the best sites/product you can think off if your audience isn't
able to get to it at all or in a fast way no way in hell will you ever be able to
sell it.
You rather use different providers for different things you run.....put the
critical on top notch hosting and throw banners/galleries on cheaper hosts.
Tours/galleries and other marketing stuff is key to load FAST. Members
content should always be available and never down....it never should be
slow but speed is less an issue than with the stuff where people decide to
pay money for something or not.
Every project is different there's no such thing as saying for paysites I need
provider A and for galleries I need provider B. There's way too many variables
that determine what's best for your project. Most important variable is where
does your traffic come from (country, region, continent). The Best provider
in the US may be worse than a average provider based in the region where
your traffic comes from.
You should ALWAYS start questioning yourself and make a list of all the things
that are key to your project. Then start looking for companies/packages that
best fit to what you have on that list.
Names, Reputations, Speeds NEVER apply to EVERY project or situation.
This is the single reason why you should never just go by other peoples
advice or experiences unless they do exactly the same as you do and in
the same region.
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