The Truth About Shared Hosting

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
-Paul Newman

A good shared host will take you a long way. Most of us will never have the traffic to really justify a dedicated server and it’s accompanying expense. In all honesty a quality shared host should be able to sustain a site that enjoys 1000+ uniques a day and around 50 gigabytes of bandwidth a month before excessive resource usage drives you to greener pastures. Those figures are daily averages from a site that I am involved with that is on a shared host. That site can at times see as many as 10,000 uniques a day, and those days do bring resource overusage shutdowns, but most days it runs just fine. That is a lot of traffic by most people’s standards, certainly enough for the vast majority of blogs.

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