Hosting question

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So I am pretty lost with hosting and have pretty limited knowledge around it. At the moment I basically just have a few sites with like 0-10 visitors a day or something, so I use a shared hosting package from hostgator at like 2$ a month. I plan on 'launching' a new site though, which at least has potential of getting 'a lot' of traffic right away. I Obviously have no idea excactly how much traffic it WILL get, could be a total flop and get 10 visitors daily, or be a hit and get like XXK daily, but lets just assume it will get a couple of K visitors a day for this question.

The site is fairly simple, some simple wordpress plugins, and a pretty plane theme, apart from that only images\text.

My question is mainly how many visitors is my hostgator baby package likely to be able to handle without big problems, and what hosting should I get to be able to handle more visitors? I know Dedicated is obviously the best to get, but I feel like spending 100$+ on hosting when I am making 0~5$ a month and have somewhat limited funds is not a good idea. I am currently leaning towards a 30-40$ VPS from hostgator (VPS Hosting | Linux VPS Servers with cPanel from HostGator like level 2 or 3?) but as I know pretty little about hosting I am not sure if thats a good idea. I just want to avoid launching the site, and then having people go to check it out and have it be super laggy\not working because I am too cheap on hosting.
 


It's not visitors, it's how much CPU and MySQL querying your site does in this case (WP, etc). You don't need dedicated now, but a lower end VPS might not be a bad idea. If you want a VPS specifically from hostgator, Level 3 is the way to go since it's Fully managed and has CPanel. It'll also be more than enough for your sites for now.
 
So why would you need a VPS at $30/mo when you can get more space/bandwith
with a Reseller account for $20/mo??? Why does it matter that you share the server?

What are the benefits of a VPS over a reseller account?
 
papajohn56 said:
It's not visitors, it's how much CPU and MySQL querying your site does in this case (WP, etc). You don't need dedicated now, but a lower end VPS might not be a bad idea. If you want a VPS specifically from hostgator, Level 3 is the way to go since it's Fully managed and has CPanel. It'll also be more than enough for your sites for now.
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Yeah this ^ If you need to scale up its easy and having a vps gives you the power to do this.
 
pileofcrap said:
Unless you're planning on getting 1,000,000 UVs a month I wouldn't worry about it.
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pileofcrap is right

your baby account with HG should handle 2k hits a day with no problems at all (unless you have some resource hungry plugins installed)

you already own some sites and you know how hard getting traffic is, you won't reach 2000 visitors in one day...you'll have plenty of time to buy a vps later if you need it
 
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