June 30, 2009
Recommend a hosting strategy to complement growth of business
Posted by: denovo : Category: Hosting
I am starting up a music promotions and artist dev. business. Currently I am hosting my sites on Dreamhost. They're OK - but support is wanting. I can't expect a lot I guess due to the structure of their business plan or for what I am paying. I recently had my site hacked via the Odmarco script exploit and their support wasn't very supportive. I fully understand that it may be one of my plug-ins or scripts that's vulnerable - but to not give me more guidance than just a form letter notice just isn't very helpful.
My sites mostly need blog/CMS support ie. Wordpress and Joomla mainly. And some bandwidth and space for music and video. I also do some reselling though it's not a real income source, so I could just as easily drop that.
I was thinking of possibly jumping to HostGator while tracking my growth and then moving to a VPS service like WaveWeb or HawkHost. But then I thought why not move to the shared hosting on WW or HH and then transition to VPS on their servers when the time comes.
Anyone know if this is a sound strategy? Do the shared hosting services provided by WW or HH have the same issues as that of DH or HostGator or similar providers?
Does anyone have a recommendation as to how to proceed or what you would do in my shoes?
My budget - I'd like to stay in the $10/month range or $20/month if I can resell services and there are one click installs for WP and Joomla and such.
I don't want to manage servers. I have enough of that at my day job;-)
Thanks
Charles
My sites mostly need blog/CMS support ie. Wordpress and Joomla mainly. And some bandwidth and space for music and video. I also do some reselling though it's not a real income source, so I could just as easily drop that.
I was thinking of possibly jumping to HostGator while tracking my growth and then moving to a VPS service like WaveWeb or HawkHost. But then I thought why not move to the shared hosting on WW or HH and then transition to VPS on their servers when the time comes.
Anyone know if this is a sound strategy? Do the shared hosting services provided by WW or HH have the same issues as that of DH or HostGator or similar providers?
Does anyone have a recommendation as to how to proceed or what you would do in my shoes?
My budget - I'd like to stay in the $10/month range or $20/month if I can resell services and there are one click installs for WP and Joomla and such.
I don't want to manage servers. I have enough of that at my day job;-)
Thanks
Charles
