Looking for server company for my site

[Flatmate]

I was wondering if you could recommend a good server company for my website www.flatmaterooms.co.uk It's current visitor numbers are 500 + a day

With the current server I over estimated the initial amount of vistors and am paying too much

Backups would be helpful too

[DambTech]

Do you require a server or just hosting?

If that is the case then what Bandwidth and Space do you think you will need?

Cheers
Dave

[Flatmate]

Hosting and backups

[Burden]

Check Stugster and Phil Open Mind Hosting.


Nice site - The Find a roommate bit doesnt display on my browser IE right though.

[DambTech]

What about space and bandwidth ?

[Flatmate]

Quad(4) Core 2.83Ghz
4GB Memory
2 x 500GB Hard Drive (Raid 1)
1000GB Monthly Bandwidth
This is what i have know, which i think is too much , what do you recommend for bandwidth and space for a site like mine

[Dwebs-Ltd]

Quad(4) Core 2.83Ghz
4GB Memory
2 x 500GB Hard Drive (Raid 1)
1000GB Monthly Bandwidth
This is what i have know, which i think is too much , what do you recommend for bandwidth and space for a site like mine

You should have stats for how much bandwidth you are actually using plus you should be able to tell what mem and processing resources you are using as well

Also what OS are you using, is it unmanaged or fully managed?

Do you actually need a dedicated server or would shared hosting do the job? 500 visits a day is low

[DambTech]

what do you recommend for bandwidth and space for a site like mine

You should be able to look at the stats and tell us what Bandwidth you are using and what OS are you using ?

Cheers
Dave

[ServWise]

Quad(4) Core 2.83Ghz
4GB Memory
2 x 500GB Hard Drive (Raid 1)
1000GB Monthly Bandwidth
This is what i have know, which i think is too much , what do you recommend for bandwidth and space for a site like mine

This sounds like far more than you would need for only 500 visits a day, that is the type of server spec we use for shared servers with many thousands of visitors per day.

You really need to look at how much space your site takes up and how much bandwidth it consumes, these things should be available via your logs.

I suspect that you are well within shared hosting limits and probably would be fine on a shared hosting server. Maximum would be a VPS which would bring down your bills considerably.

The exception is if you are using a LOT of space 50GB+ then your likely to need at least VPS or semi-dedicated server.

Your welcome to take a look at our plans.

[ServWise]

I was just checking some of the site stats on our servers and many get much more than 500 visitors per day and typically use less than 50MB of bandwidth per day (1.5GB per month). Unless your an image or media hosting site I doubt you'll need anything but a medium sized shared hosting account.

[Dwebs-Ltd]

I was just checking some of the site stats on our servers and many get much more than 500 visitors per day and typically use less than 50MB of bandwidth per day (1.5GB per month). Unless your an image or media hosting site I doubt you'll need anything but a medium sized shared hosting account.

3,000+ Visits/Day | 600+ Unique Visits/Day = 1.7Gb/Day BW

[ServWise]

3,000+ Visits/Day | 600+ Unique Visits/Day = 1.7Gb/Day BW

Hi Dwebs,

Are these his numbers? Is he hosting with you?
This numbers do not really add up. Each visitor would have to be downloading at least 500KB, okay so the guys homepage is 300K but even then with likely most people never going past the home page and the rest of the pages being much smaller I don't see how how he could be using that much bandwidth per day.

In any case that is still well within shared hosting limits, our £32/m top tier reseller account offers 60GB per month (£24.38 if you pay annually) and if he optimises his homepage then he can easily more than half his monthly bandwidth usage I suspect..

[ServWise]

Seems he must have over used his bandwidth, can't get to his site now... :-p

[Dwebs-Ltd]

Hi Dwebs,

Are these his numbers? Is he hosting with you?
This numbers do not really add up. Each visitor would have to be downloading at least 500KB, okay so the guys homepage is 300K but even then with likely most people never going past the home page and the rest of the pages being much smaller I don't see how how he could be using that much bandwidth per day.

In any case that is still well within shared hosting limits, our £32/m top tier reseller account offers 60GB per month (£24.38 if you pay annually) and if he optimises his homepage then he can easily more than half his monthly bandwidth usage I suspect..

No the site isn't hosted with us, figures were just a sample from a site we host that gets 500+ unique's a day.

We don't auto suspend sites that go over their limit either disk or bandwidth :)

[ServWise]

No the site isn't hosted with us, figures were just a sample from a site we host that gets 500+ unique's a day.

We don't auto suspend sites that go over their limit either disk or bandwidth :)

Okay right gotcha, still I think that is a not a typical amount of bandwidth for that many visitors (page view numbers or even hits would be much more telling) but it all depends on what the site is about etc. I suspect with the OP they use much less bandwidth than that and so wouldn't need anything like a dedicated server.. Having said that the OP would be well advised to optimise their homepage, it should easily be under 150K..

[Dwebs-Ltd]

Okay right gotcha, still I think that is a not a typical amount of bandwidth for that many visitors (page view numbers or even hits would be much more telling) but it all depends on what the site is about etc.


PV = 44K, H = 194K (you should be able to work out the type of site easily enough from the visits vs unique visits)
Its not on a dedicated, simple shared hosting.


I suspect with the OP they use much less bandwidth than that and so wouldn't need anything like a dedicated server.. Having said that the OP would be well advised to optimise their homepage, it should easily be under 150K..

Yeah they could, 105kb JS, 158kb Images

[mke]

Flog Flog Flog. Impress Impress Impress. Yawn Yawn Yawn. You've bored the OP to death, guys, and the rest of us with him. His eyes have glazed over. He's gone to sleep. You've lost your sale.

He needs shared hosting and a massive reduction in costs. That's all he wants to know. Nothing too demanding about it.

Flat-Mate-Rooms, get in touch with any of Stugster, CarlCSNM or me. Your problem will not be such to any of us.

[ServWise]

Jeeze some people really need to get some manners.

[That Guy]

Contact Dominic at www.vidahost.com (http://www.vidahost.com)

Great support and very reliable service :)

[Flatmate]

Will check out the details and get back in touch

[eukhost]

You can have a look at our website http://www.eukhost.com and consider hosting plans as per your requirements. We'll wait for an update from you :)

[sm1]

Highly recommend www.equiphase.net ... you won't go wrong. It's stugster as those above have mentioned :D