ipuck

I have been running 8 web sites for about 7 years. 2 of those web sites are getting popular and I'm adding lots of information, consequently the sites are getting very slow at times and I'm running out of space. Someone suggest me to get a dedicated server, but I never deal with the server I just pay the hosting company and they took care of everything.

If I move to a dedicated server do I have to do all the configurations, install software, etc?

Can I have all my sites in the same server?

Should I move to a dedicated server with the following stats?

1 site = 5K visitors/day 20K pages. I need 8GB
2 site = 3K visitors/day 15K pages. 6GB
3-8 sites = 1K visitors/day 5K pages. 10GB

Currently I'm paying around $100 for hosting all sites.

temi

ipuck,
from my personal experience, I will say do not go for dedicated server. Here are some of the reasons:
- If the server goes down all sites goes down
- You did not say if you dedicated is managed or now but if its not a managed dedicated server you are in for a ROUGH ride
- All your sites will probably be hosted on one IP address, this is not very good for SEO.

And numerous other reasons just can find time to list them all.

You seem to be paying quite a lot for you shared hosting, I think what you need at this stage of your site development is a reseller hosting.

Reseller hosting packages come with huge bandwidth, disk space and other stuff, its just like share hosting but you do the sharing yourself, I mean you have an interface where you can add new site, remove sites etc etc and reseller hosting from advanced hosting companies even allows you to host some sites on its one IP address. The biggest advantage of reseller hosting is that its almost like dedicated server minus all the headaches because the hosting company is responsible for updated the server, security issues etc. You may find my blog on UK reseller hosting useful.

Reseller hosting will also cost you less than half of what you seem to pay to host all your sites at the moment.

Good luck

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ipuck

Excellent information temi thank you.

olkin

Or VPS, I's say. As for the same IP addresses, you can always get dedicated IP's, it's shared account where youy might encounter the problem of using the same IP's.
Excellent reselling plans with lots of features, as well as the opportunity to buy dedicated IP's are
onthespothosting.net, myriadnetwork.com, and ahosting.biz.

eprosumer

Temi you make Dedicated Hosting sound so bad... Aren't there any benefits to it?

Secondly.. It depends on who your host is.

I have 70 websites one of which gets around 12,000 hits a day.

All on a Shared account! at $9.95 a month. But thats because I was reccomended to HostGator and they are able to withstand that much traffic without slowing!

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