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By: The High Risk of Low Price Tags « Host Duplex Blog

The High Risk of Low Price Tags « Host Duplex Blog — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:29 +0000

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By: jimmy.rhim

jimmy.rhim — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:16:48 +0000

We also had a client who was running a contest for his Ten Millionth visitor to his site. He was awarding all kinds of expensive prizes and giveaways. This in turn created an explosive flux of unique viewers for him. While many other companies could have shut his website down entirely, we instead provided him the option of an upgraded plan to handle the added bandwidth.

-Jimmy

By: HD Admin

HD Admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:24:36 +0000

Hi NEFTALI,

While a shared environment is an excellent place to start, if you are expecting a large following or spike in traffic, I would highly recommend our XenServer VPS plans. It offers on-demand scalability that will allow you to increase your CPU cores, RAM, storage space and bandwidth, all on-demand. The reason I recommend VPS first is due to the fact that upgrades from Shared to XenServer plans may take a few hours to migrate your site over to a new server.

Let us know if you have any questions. You can always submit a ticket at https://support.hostduplex.com or call us at 877.7.DUPLEX

Have a great day!

By: NEFTALI

NEFTALI — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:55:06 +0000

I’m starting a blog with the hopes of gathering a large following. As a start up It would be difficult to know what my bandwidth needs will be…hopefully alot. If there is an unforseen spike in traffic would I be prompted first by your company on the need to purchase more space or even another service to handle the increased traffic? I ask, because I’ve been advised by other (website owners) that any sudden and unexpected site traffic would/could be treated as an “issue” and thus the host may take the site down. Obviously if this were due to an unethical cause of the increased traffic i’d understand and support this…. But, if one is just plain successful and fortunate enough to received the new attention I would hope one could merely move over to the right hosting plan to handle the new traffic

Please let me know