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Posted by ArisG, 04-11-2017, 07:00 PM
Hello, I need help to decide my new hosting provider. Currently my WordPress website has about 30k unique visitors and 70k number of visits (data from awstats). I wonder if a sheared hosting plan can afford this kind of traffic. Managed VPS and cloud servers are out of my budget but if this is the only solution I will think about it. I have found A2 Turbo Hosting Plan but its not clear the resource limits (CPU, RAM, I/O) Also, I would like to ask how I will handle the transfer from a hosting provider to another. Should I test before remove the entire site? Should I remove entire site to check the limits with real data? Thank you in advanced.
Posted by WPCYCLE, 04-11-2017, 07:19 PM
That amount of traffic may be too much for a Shared account, BUT it all depends on how well your WordPress website is optimized. Are images optimized for the web? Have you scaled down on plugins that are not needed? Deleted themes and plugins that are not needed? Have you asked the host if you're close to hitting any limits or still within a comfort level (just be careful as this is where they may upsell you). If traffic is close to the limits you do have that much traffic and are close to the limits of Shared, you should research monetizing your website so you don't end up in a grey area of needing to pay more to host it, but not making enough to cover the cost. With transferring from one web host to another...ask the new host to do it for you. Most will do it for free and will just need the login information from your current account. Ask specifically what they cover within the transfer. Some will do up to a certain amount of GB or up to a limit of domains.
Posted by Hosting4Real, 04-12-2017, 04:26 AM
30k unique visitors and 70k number of visits... Is that a day, or per month? :-) Makes a rather big difference. If it's a month, then every hosting provider should be able to handle it, if it's every day - still every decent hosting provider should be able to handle it - even if the site is really bad.
Posted by LeapWH, 04-12-2017, 07:27 AM
Their website says CPU 2 x 2.1 ghz RAM 2 GB However, there is no information about concurrent connections which is rather important.
Posted by ArisG, 04-12-2017, 08:03 AM
Thank you for your replies My WordPress site is Optimized but unfortunately in my current hosting I don’t have stats to measure the limits. The visits are monthly but I hope to become daily . What do you mean with “every hosting provider should be able to handle it” I think that I am confused about the resource limits. When we talk about “Limits” what I should check? CPU limits are the concurrent connections? RAM limits are for how long can I use the RAM over a limit? In SiteGround that I have test it they used “CPU circles”. Every visit (not unique) trigger a CPU circle and the limits was too low. The answer from A2 hosting is Turbo hosting has 2x2.1 ghz CPU's, 2GB of physical RAM and 8GB of virtual RAM. While it is possible that our Turbo hosting could provide the resources your site needs, we typically recommend our managed VPS services for the traffic you have described. We have a limitation of six hundred thousand (600,000) i nodes, and no more than 45 concurrent connections for databases. We do not limit bandwidth or storage usage in our shared hosting environments.
Posted by A2 - Alex, 04-12-2017, 08:12 AM
Hi ArisG, Thank you for considering A2 Hosting! May I ask who your current provider is and what plan you're currently on? And are you hitting any of their resource limits at peak times? This should give us an idea of where your site is at in terms of resource limits. For transferring your site over, if your current provider runs cPanel we will perform a free website transfer for you. We would just need your current hosting accounts login details and our team will take care of the rest for you so no worries there .
Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss, 04-12-2017, 11:36 AM
Many providers offer free migration from a cPanel based server. But don't remove your site from the old server after the migration. A lot can go wrong. If you are in a hurry, monitor your website on the new server for at least 15 days before removing it from the old server. As long as the visits are monthly, you should be good with a decent provider, however, if they increase, you might need to upgrade to a semi-dedicated or VPS hosting.
Posted by sperryman, 04-12-2017, 12:43 PM
As has been said before there are a lot of factors involved in whether or not a shared hosting environment can handle that traffic. I am inclined to say if the provider is decent, with nice hardware and user-limits in place, then you should have no trouble with that amount of traffic; so long as you aren't duplicating a YouTube or Imgur style site serving tons and tons of large files.