We’ve had 3500 visits in a week with no advertising, just word of mouth. We have many HD videos on the site.
It’s hard to tell, but It’s going to be a lot.
It’s hard to tell, but It’s going to be a lot.
Well, you need some sort of estimate of (1) how much bandwidth you will need, and (2) how much you can afford. Are you the second coming of amazon.com, or (far smaller) freerepublic.com or something far smaller still.
Another way to approach it ... see what's available. For example, here's the price sheet from my favorite web hoster, pair Networks:
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| Select the best hosting plan for your busy Web site. Our Dedicated hosting plans are better suited to serve resource-intensive sites.
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set up: Waived
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monthly: $74.95
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- The perfect upgrade from a lower-tier plan
- 400GB/month traffic
- 20 GB disk space
- 30 MySQL databases
- 5000 mailboxes
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- 40 additional FTP logins
- Access by SSH and FTP
- Telephone Support
- Perl 5, PHP 5 Module, and more... |
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| HV-2 |
set up: Waived
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monthly: $129.95
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- Great for your growing site
- 600GB/month traffic
- 30 GB disk space
- 30 MySQL databases
- 5000 mailboxes
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- 40 additional FTP logins
- Access by SSH and FTP
- Telephone Support
- Perl 5, PHP 5 Module, and more... |
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| HV-3 |
set up: Waived
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monthly: $179.95
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- Ideal for very popular sites
- 800GB/month traffic
- 40 GB disk space
- 30 MySQL databases
- 5000 mailboxes
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- 40 additional FTP logins
- Access by SSH and FTP
- Telephone Support
- Perl 5, PHP 5 Module, and more... |
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Or they have lower price
Web Hosting plans on shared servers, and higher priced
Dedicated Hosting plans on fully dedicated servers. I run
SanityIsland.us, the Freeper Daily Dose Image server, on one of these plans, for about $30/month.
The key numbers are how many GBytes per month of network traffic, and how many GBytes of disk storage, you choose to pay for.
