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So you are starting out and you want to be able ,to keep up with your fans maybe sell things and you get what most start out with a FREE site. As traffic picks up you notice your site is crashing or non responsive.  So the more this happens the more you know it is time to grow.

So you want to pay for hosting.  There is Gator.Net GoDaddy and Bluehost to name a few.  We use Blue Host and the following is based on Blue Host but most operate the same way we like Blue host due to fair pricing and the high reviews on its 24/7 tech support which as many of you know we have worked closely with to resolve some serious issue in last few month.

 

So we Started out Just Hosting.  something like  7 a month on sale.  You will want Identity Guards (17 a yr)  so your address isn’t public and  useally a 25 package a year with add ons at lower levels that become free at higher level as you will see.  Not to get the 7 a month you have to commit to 36 months so yeah its gonna be a down payment of around

7×36=252+(17×3)+(25×3)=378 dollars

If you are on a budget this is a bit hard to swallow.  But remember this is a 3year investment that really is 123.3333 a month or 10.2775 a month.

So 10.28 a month to host a site not to bad.  Plus you get to host 300,000 files and the size is unlimited so less worries right.

But than there is load times as you get busy and you are on a shared IP and you are again worried about Missing out on views and sale so because of success you need to upgrade

What we did and it worked for a while was

Plus/Pro Hosting

• Improved Performance
• Fewer Users per Server
• Bundled Hosting Add-ons included with Pro
• Multiple Hosting Options
• cPanel
• SSH Server Access
• 12, 24, and 36 month plans available

now this is an ADD-ON meaning you have to add this to the Cost of 378 but with Blue Host they do give you credit for what you hadn’t used and do work on a few credits.  But 7 extra a month for 36 still is about 252.  Ad depending when you add it on you might have to add a few month to contract from above.  So it does get expensive.

SAVERS tip wait for site sales to upgrade.  By doing this I was actual able to upgrade to this and have them owe me a 15 dollar credit.  I used that credit to out right Buy WrittenSins.com which was on sale for 1 dollar.   Sales are something you need to monitior

We than after all that still grew and needed more again and switched up to

 

VPS Hosting

• High Performance
• Isolated Virtual Server
• Expandable Server Resources
• 1-2 IPs
• Multiple Hosting Options
• cPanel/WHM
• Root Server Access
• 1, 3, 6, and 12 month plans available

Starting at $23.74/mo. ($15.00 off first month)

Now this does get credited from the last upgrade so if you wait for a sale like we did we paid a difference of 5 bucks a month.  NOW BLUEHOST credits I have heard other providers do not credit and worse if you upgrade early charge you to do so.  So ask questions and check up them before you use them.  I didn’t mention the bad ones on purpose just the 3 I was picking between.  Go daddy is said to have issues but I know a few who love it so be aware and do your research before committing to a provider

So again it was 5 months plus 2 months add on but the credits and difference in price at the time helped up to get a deal and only costed us 100 bucks.  Still thats 378+252+100=730 over 4.5 years as this has happen over a year and a half so it works out to still just 13.5185.  It is hard to swallow whole number always work it down to a monthly cost.

So in last few weeks while YEs we are doing a lot better in performance we noticed a slowness during busy time to days the cloud option opened up and we are going for it.