Re: FN-FORUM: hosting a very large site

date posted 7th February 2007 14:39

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Regards,


Ian.
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On 7 Feb 2007, at 12:53 pm, Dynamic Developer wrote:

>
> I need some advice.
>
> I'm currently working on a large site where the disk space usage is =20=

> growing
> quickly. The site has loads of large photos with new ones regularly =20=

> being
> uploaded. The site has been running for a few months and is already =20=

> 1400MB.
> It's currently running on shared hosting, but won't be able to cope =20=

> much
> longer.
>
> I'm not too familiar with the options available for hosting larger =20
> sites.
> Dedicated, co-location hosting, Virtual hosting etc? (the price =20
> seems to
> rocket whenever those things are mentioned). Or are there decent =20
> shared
> hosting packages which can handle large sites with high bandwidth?
>
> Reliability is a big issue for me (I was with Hostdepartment. They =20
> claim to
> offer lots of space but the site kept crashing daily!). The site =20
> currently
> runs on Coldfusion and MySQL.
>
> Any advice is welcome.
>
>
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