Sorry, me again. I’m a little confused, because after chatting with several hosting providers, I’m being given vastly different answers on what plan I need. Some have recommended a dedicated VPS plan starting in the $30-50 range, while others like BlueHost and HostGator assure me I would be perfectly fine with a cloud hosting plan with unlimited storage and bandwidth in the $5-10 range. Either I’m not being clear in what I’m asking, or they are trying to lure me in by starting me out with a cheap plan.
Just to clarify…I’d probably be looking at 250-500 visitors per day at most, with a small fraction of those using the site at one time (on average…possibly a few spikes during the day where we have more traffic). And again, we would have members uploading/sharing images (possibly a few hundred per week).
Does this still sound doable for $5-10/month? We are just a local hiking club with small budget…I’d hate to spend time developing a site and then find out we don’t have the budget to support it! 🙂
Thanks Destac. Hostgator advertises a cloud based managed WordPress plan with CDN and unlimited storage for around $10 per month. Would something like that be sufficient to get started? I’m expecting 200-300 visitors per day at most.
Thanks for the quick reply! I guess I don’t know what constitutes high traffic. I suspect we will have spikes of activity, such as when new events are announced, followed by quiet times. Also not clear on the difference between cached space vs what I know of as space on a physical drive.
