Hosting Issues

[Chris]

My sites over the past couple of months have grown in popularity, and as a result have begun to drain on my hosts server resources. This morning I awoke to find that they had once again suspended my sites for being too much of a drain on the server and affecting the other sites I'm hosted with. The only option they gave me was to upgrade to a VPS which unfortuantely is going to cost me about $50 a month I think... :(. My sites receives somewhere inbetween 3,000 to 4,000 unique visitors a day. Now I don't know a great deal about servers and hosting but I was looking to get some advice as to whether upgrading to a dedicated server is an option and what the benefits of doing such would give me. So if anyone out there knows anything about such things please feel free to run through the ABC's with me.

[golden14]

Hi,
To cut my costs I've just signed up as a reseller hosting with www.centrehost.net £39.95 per month but massive capacity. I'm not currently reselling any hosting but merely using it to host my own sites. Drops the cost down and increases the flexibility. Service seems pretty good. I figure at the current rate / size of my sites (no graphics hungry ones) it'll hold over 300 sites. May offer hosting once I can come up with a flashy name to use for reselling! I would definitely advise going down the dedicated route - I posted a similar thread to yours some time ago and only wish I'd sorted out the reseller route earlier. Reselling doesn't mean you have to sell the hosting packages on to anyone, you just set the package costs to £0 and then you can host as many as your space allows.
Cheers,
Richie Boy

[Anonymous]

bots and leachers drains server resources for sure. you need to deny some bots in your site.

[tsutton]

bots and leachers drains server resources for sure. you need to deny some bots in your site.

... by leechers/bots, you mean search engine spiders? If so, allow them otherwise your site won't be seen by everyone. :)

I have a decidated server and it helps a lot. I run 6 websites (2 large) on it and there are still plently of space on it!

[Anonymous]

If so, allow them otherwise your site won't be seen by everyone. :)



specific bot can be denied access adding a little bit of code on .htaccess file.

[Chris]

I don't think I will be denying search engine bots (for fear of not being ranked) but in good news I have just had my new VPS server set up with a new bandwidth limit of 300GB a month so there is a lot of room to grow now, though I'm paying over twice what I used to be paying. I'm thinking once I have 3 or 4 more sites up and running I'll probably more onto a dedicated server.

For now though I'll be spending the next week doing damage control and no doubt answering all the complaints and emails I'll be getting from my members... :o