After almost a year of hard work, our project is finally ready to face the world. Short cut image: 4 websites - 8 domains: 4 main, 4 forwarders. Traffic – predictions per website: within 6-9 months reach 1-2 million per month.
So how you can see the project is quiet big and will require a lot of maintenance. That’s way we are looking for a best solution to hosting such a big project.
Here are main criteria at what we want and what we can:
• The Budget is $100-200 per month
• Fully managed server
• 99.9% uptime
• Security and Antivirus
• Speed
• 24/7 support
We had some suggestions about the Dedicated, Cloud, and AWS hosting environments. But what You think ???
Any suggestions or guidance’s will be very helpful.
Thank You and appreciate for your help!
p.s.
Our experience is only with shared/reseller hosting!
It is based on our personal experience. Just to tell you one more thing about them - they are very strict about server security, so they do not allow anything illegal, porn, spam and so on. They have pre-sale online live support system. You can clarify each and everything before buying the dedicated server. In fact, they suggest also what will be best for you.
For that budget, I would definitely recommend MediaTemple (dv) EXTREME. I’ve been happy with my (dv) for a long time and before that I was very satisfied with their (gs).
Once you have a (dv) account, you can of course optimize CentOS, PHP, MySQL and Apache further. This will likely dramatically increase the performance of your sites.
I’ve just optimized a web shop for a client on my own (dv) system. If you need any assistance or advice about MediaTemple or optimization, just send me an email or private message.
