seeking suitable host for high expectation company

[vrwired]

Hi all,

I am conducting a research project to get a host that could handle a company with huge expectations (after 3 years of R&D and product release this Fall).

Does anyone know of a 99.9 server uptime host who matches this criteria?

· Uptime – at least 99.9%
· Data Transfer/Month – currently guestimated to be over 100
· Data Transfer Rate - currently guestimated to be at least 10 Mbps
· Technical Support via phone - 24/7 Pay $$$ for great support
· Space 100-200 MB (currently only using under 30 MB)
· Using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
· Undecided on Shared, VPS, Co-location, or dedicated server. · · Recommendations are appreciated.

Background of our needs:
We are an upcoming direct response marketing company; our product will initially be sold via infomercials directing audiences to our web site to view a 4-5 MB flash file. We are initially anticipating spikes of 100-250 viewings/hour during broadcast of infomercials.

Anyone have recommendations of what hosts to seriously analyze?

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[Blue]

Depending on your advertising from what you describe you will need a dedicated server.
At the very least you will need a VPS.
You could have a look at ServInt VPS solutions. They are fully managed and they have great support.

 

[HostingStar]

You are expecting 100 GB transfer?

A shared account can handle that if it is not a mysql intense script, but a VPS is a very good option for that.

 

[TRau]

Hi all,
Background of our needs:
We are an upcoming direct response marketing company; our product will initially be sold via infomercials directing audiences to our web site to view a 4-5 MB flash file. We are initially anticipating spikes of 100-250 viewings/hour during broadcast of infomercials.

Anyone have recommendations of what hosts to seriously analyze?

Don't under estimate your needs. After 3 years R&D and the expense of running infomercials do you really want people to get a unresponsive page? Those spikes are likely to occur within minutes of the url appearing on air, not evenly distributed over an hour. Do not even consider shared hosting. Pick a respectable company that offers both dedicated and VPS, start off with dedicated, if the commercials don't generate the volume you hope for after the month you can always get moved to a VPS (or even shared) solution. You do not want to risk losing sales, so go big to start, you can always scale back if dedicated isn't needed.
I've heard great things about Servint (mentioned earlier) as well as DIYHosting. Rackspace gets great marks as well.