Wordpress Tube Site - hosting
 

So i have one of those wordpress tube sites
- 5 minute clips are uploaded on other cloud hosted sites (external)
- each tube site receives 2-3k in traffic (i have about 5)

What strategy would you recommend
1. Putting them all under 1 dedicated server?
2. Putting them on a wordpress hosting site?
3. putting them on VPS
4. Put them on a shared hosting server

Thanks

You said that you have one site, but then you said you have five sites? Do you have five sites, each fitting the specs above?

How much overall hard drive space do you need? What is your budget? What are your other requirements?

1 or 3, depends on your traffic, BW, storage etc.

Yes,

I have 5 tube sites. They use up 10 GB each diskspace. Bandwith about 200GB. You guys think Dedicated is over kill?

I did put them on dedicated / 16GB xeon server/ SSD Drive (now thinking of downgrading to shared again at $10 month vs $300 month)
Result: No change in traffic..faster? mmm 1-2 pts more based on pingdom

I'd go with some cheaper VPS. Check my sig.

Food for thought.

I have 2 dedicated servers from OVH which are managed by me and a friend who is a Linux System Admin. I had a terrebyte SSD on new server. Well partition got full and crashed MySQL and took 114 sites offline. I'm not a Centos master or MySQL God. And it was a pain to get things going.

My advice is to break up sites into multiple VPS or something feasible. There are plenty of guys on here who will steer you in the right direction. But I just recovered from a day's worth of work screwing with old VPS to get more sites on it because of this overload on the servers.

I think managed servers in lieu of cheap OVH self managed is the way to go if you want uptime