yeh, their shared hosting has limits which are very low. They also own justhost and many others. you can read who hostgato's parent company owns here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group
Hostgator is fine as long as u don't hit a spike eg go viral. Then it is down. Same goes for all server really unless I have cache and everything tuned in. With Wordpress I will hit the cliff pretty soon even with decent ssd blaze hosting. Around 50-100 maybe 200 per second.
So if u go viral and then just loose all that traffic that would suck dog balls. The cloud is actually a super cheap website hosting opportunity. A hosted site costs pennies depending on your data transfer etc.
I assume we are talking about static type hosting affiliate directed offer simple web page.
No video hosted directly.
Of course the cloud can handle database clusters aswell but it cost a lot more than a static site! Amazon has read and write blocks of massive capacity for this also.
I must admit it is a great feeling when u get spikes and see affiliates actual page go down from all the referral traffic that you are sending, ohh hang on it is not a ddos, it's for real !! shadang it takes its man to handle 10-50 gb per second. !! The referral links just pop, cloudflare gives up on you and you will get a phone call or two. -asking you for a deposit of 5000$ right away to stay up, or at least try!
Unless the affiliate is on auto scale within seconds or minutes, it can hick the whole system up with delays etc.
we see this every week. Still if u push over 15k a second the stuff goes down unless u warm them up before with cloud provider if you are exspecting A planned spike, u can also split regions and add more buckets !
how would you know your article was going to go crazy nuts!?maybe you only get one chance to impress on this traffic and you lost it, vanished 4ever.
In the cloud. Pretty much no limits to handle traffic. CDN buckets etc.
Amazon s3 bucket can handle 5k a second. With cloudfront about 15 k. Each s3 bucket has a bandwidth of 10gb/s. All as standard basic setup.
To sit and play with varnish caches, nginx setups. Apache, and top this with cloudflare for a normal webpage is just overkill, expensive, time consuming and unfortunately the mainstream way today.
People talk about co2 emissions. I wonder how much Co2 emissions and impact on nature and populations. systems like Wordpress has created so much bad in a short life time!?, resources that has been mined and energy, it has made people displaced, established more poverty. it is the biggest fraud that has ever happend in IT tech, it is not just Wordpress but throughout the tech industry, a commonplace for madmen that should of kept mining coal.
Everyone needs a database, get me out of here.
