My website gets 12k views a day and almost 900k visits a month. How much should I pay for hosting?

[Cloudarok]

I'm currently paying $2,000. I think that is really high. What would be the average for that amount money for that traffic? If you can please explain, I don't really understand why it's so much. When I go to godaddy.com it says $8 a month for unlimited. So I don't understand?

[?]

That's a lot. It should be by traffic and server load. I would be careful with "unlimited" mass-market offers though - they're really kind of throttled in terms of service quality at times. You'd rather have a provider that guarantees quick service to those 900k visitors a month.

[Jake]

So something like 10 page loads a minute. Those so called unlimited account are really deceptions, you are sharing a file server with hundreds of other sites in some cases, most of the sites on unlimited accounts have very little traffic, if a site requires unusually high bandwidth, the host will find a reason to force you to upgrade to a more expensive account.

A lot depends on how heavy your pages are, if it's a static plain text site with less than 100k page loads maybe a shared account would do, if you have a media rich site or are hosting your own videos more might be needed. Measuring the average page load size would be important,

You will find the more expensive business oriented accounts spell out the bandwidth allocation for month, you should be able to roughly estimate the total bandwidth for 900k page loads.

I would assume you have some special need at $2000 a month, dedicated servers with good bandwidth cost around $500 a month depending on the support level.

An ecommerce site using paid advertising to get customers would want the best possible load speed to minimize the bounce rate of these expensive prospects, Google's own internal design specs call for 1/2 second page load times, too many wordpress blogs running on those shared hosts are closer to 10 second load times.

Cloud hosting like Amazon AWS can be an economical way to get good performance in some cases, for your kind of money one would expect to have mirrored servers around the world to improve average access speed.

[Neil]

How much space do you require for your site files and what is your bandwidth usage per month?

Hosting charges are usually a combination of these two components.

[Charles Williams]

Hosting charges are depends on your space do you require for your site files and bandwidth usage per month.

[Peter]

Uh... that's fantastic numbers! Congratulations.

But such numbers comes with one "good bye" to shared hostings as GoDaddy. My suggestion is to switch to VPS as Amazon EC2 where this will costly around $50 or $100 (or even more) dependent from VPS parameters.

[Beverly]

Way too high go to Go Daddy and you will pay MUCH less you pay per year and they make great deals on bundling so like 100.00 for 5 years check them out

[Micheal]

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Regards,