Managed hosting and how to determine your hosting requirement
October 19th, 2009 | by Windows Hosting |Issues to look for in Managed Hosting providers
Assessing load factors and resource requirements, how many people are going to visit your site and whether the hosting package you’ve signed up to is going to be able to sustain the load of enquiries you believe you’re going to get is an important if not critical issue. There is no point in you spending vast amounts of time, marketing and PR to drive traffic to your site if all that it causes is for your site to keel over due to the massive load that it is unable to sustain.
We’ve all heard of horror stories of well advertised and marketed sites that underestimate or just don’t quite factor in the number of visitors that they visit to the site, and very soon after their site launches it comes crashing down again.
A few easy steps;
First and paramount it is worth calculating what the average page size is for your site? This varies for sites from one extreme — sites that stream videos — to the smaller text only micro sites. But on average these vary anywhere between 5 Kb to 50 Kb depending on how many and how well optimised the images are on the site.
Next it would be worth calculating how many peak visitors you believe you will be getting, and what the maximum reasonable concurrent users might be.
A recent client came to us for their hosting requirements. Naturally they did not wish for their new online shop to be anything but a success on the first day especially as they were promoting it at their party conference.
We calculated the usage and place our client on our Windows VPS package for rapid scalability, and powerful processing (our VPS hosting solutions run on 8 core XEON blades). Due to our BGP4 routing and 100MB connectivity we were comfortable with any rapid large influx of simultaneous concurrent users.
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