I work at a foundation that is seeking a new hosting company. I don’t deal with large projects often and so I’m not sure what concerns should be addressed for my current scenario. We have our larger corporate site that will be built in Wordpress. We receive about 40k visits a month. We don’t handle audio or video or plan to do so any time soon. We also manage about 30+ other sites and create them often.
InMotion has been recommended to me. I suspect most competent services offer the same things. However there may be specific areas that really make the difference in picking a hosting company. Any suggestions? Also, are those “top hosting company” sites all a sham? InMotion popped up as the most popular in the two sites I came across.
Most ‘top hosting sites’ are just set up to gather advertising and affiliate income, which usually directly influencethe tables they display. They’re not a reliable source of information to use in evaluation.
I’ve never heard of inmotion, and a quick google and visit to their site shows it’s currently offline - which might suggest they are unlikely to be a suitable host for a corporate operation.
A corporate level host should be long established and reputable, have a provable provenance of high level clients and high traffic sites, have redundancy across all their (owned) equipment, expert level in house support, and an SLA, amongst other things. Quality in these areas never comes cheap or quick, which should be a useful indicator in eliminating the majority of candidates.
Agreed. Their comparison makes me laugh. However, they’re true when choosing all competitors are in the same class. But they are far away from “the leading choices for hosting”. If your sites are small, you might be fine with them. However, if your sites are big, you would have trouble soon or later.
Back to the OP, 40K visits per month is just small. I just wanted to make sure you don’t have peak likes 10K at once, etc.
40K per month ~ 10K per week ~ 1.7K per day.
However, when using WP, do you have multiple plugins? If you are managing your sites already, who your current host is, how about the current load?
Before you can completely decide on a host, you need to decide what type of hosting you are wanting too - for that many users, I imagine you are beyond Shared Hosting and either looking at a VPS / Cloud solution or maybe even a smaller dedicated server of your own?
For corporate use you must deal with someone who have enough time to take care of you spatially. top provider are very busy with there lot of traffic. Just take a look at dreamyhost.com
open a support ticket and see how fast they answer.
i am using there service from a very long time…
Based off of what you explained, you need a VPS or a reseller account. Any reputatable host will be able to handle 40k visitors per month on either of these plans.