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Now the problem is that I am not sure what's good for me.
I am starting with new hosting located in the UK, picked it because of the high speed connection of the host around the world. Damn it's even faster than the test hosting I used untill now, located no more than 100 miles away from me. Honestly said don't pick cheap hosting such as [snip]. Why? Those guys squeeze 5 times more clients on their servers and your site will be slow as a turtle.
Now Bad side of it - low bandwith - between 10 and 50GB I can pick from. Other hosting services offer 200GB and more.
Simple math - if I have 100 000 visits per month which is not that high, and everyone makes 5 mbs traffic would make 500GB of traffic per month? Correct me if I am wrong.... but seems rather than high number. How much traffic makes your website, considering number of users, and content type?
[edited by: phranque at 9:34 am (utc) on Jan. 11, 2009]
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And let's say your site takes off in a few months, then you can simply have your those upgrade your bandwidth. Just make sure they offer it with the server location you choose.
I've worked with some hosts that organize their server farms based on bandwidth usage. When I wanted to upgrade to more bandwidth, they had to physically move my server to another node, which meant downtime!
So ask these questions up front to limit the number of problems you may encounter down the road if/when you need more bandwidth.
But again, I would start small and grow into more as you see some real statistics on usage, etc. Many new sites take months to years before they hit full throttle.
