Topic: Is this hosting plan good for buddypress?

Is this hosting plan good for buddypress?

@rickkumar

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago
Please advise if this hosting plan from mediatemple is good enough to start a buddypress social network site? It is $20/mth:

http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/
What do I get with a (gs) Grid-Service plan?
- 100 GBs of premium storage
- 1 TB of “short-path” bandwidth
- 100 unique sites / alternate domains
- 2,000 GPUs
- 100 databases
- 1,000 email addresses
Please help with the following questions:

1. What is a “short-path” bandwidth?

2. Will 100 databases be enough to host about 3 different buddypress social networking sites?

3. How many MySQL databases a buddypress site generally needs?

4. Will 1000 email addresses be enough to share among 3 buddypress sites? We won’t use more than 10 among the people who will have access to the sever backend. So is 1000 email addresses something we should worry about?

Anything else I should worry about or be careful about?

Thank you for your help.

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@modemlooper

Moderator

11 years, 8 months ago

you only need one database per install

@ubernaut

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

gs is a shared environment as such it is not recommended for anything but private buddypress sites (maybe not even then). unlike other shared environments gs will not throttle you but instead they will bill you for overage the thing to really watch for is the GPU. WP+BP will use something like 100x the GPU of a typical static site when i used them on a BP site with about 2000 visitors a day about 2 years ago we were looking at about 200 in overage in the first month alone.

#1 some media temple term that doesn’t mean much just think of it as total bandwidth cause thats probably what it is.

#2 yes.

#3 1

#4 probably not but i’m sure you can buy extras. email accounts are totally separate from wordpress/buddypress accounts.

@synaptic

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

Short answer: No.

Go to webhostingtalk forum and register to find the best host.

You can also fill out this to request multiple quotes from hosts:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/hostquote.php

@modemlooper

Moderator

11 years, 8 months ago

I had a gs BuddyPress site with 3,000 members and had no problem. You will not be able to run three sites on one grid. But I had to do major work on cache, minimize files and utilization of CDN

You are better off going dedicated if you think you will have more than this.

@ubernaut

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

curious what your daily traffic was like for that site.

@rickkumar

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

Thank you all for your help.

It appears GPU (Grid Processing Unit) is something that only mediatemple uses and even after reading everything about it, I am not sure how much traffic can it withstand. I also discovered they charge $20 per backup snapshot which I believe is a lot.

I will keep looking for another day or two and I will fill out the quote at webhosting talk and will go from there.

@ubernaut

Participant

11 years, 8 months ago

GPU is basically the same thing as CPU