Is a vps necessary to run an Authority Site?

emerica1184

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• Jul 21, 2012

• #1

I saw mention of this is some threads. I have mine on my baby plan at hostgator among several other sites.

 

Duffers5000

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• Jul 21, 2012

• #2

No not at all.....an Authority site is built on content not server specs

 

emerica1184

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• Jul 21, 2012
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• #3

but what about bandwith?

 

puneetas3

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• Jul 21, 2012

• #4

don't hatch the eggs before they are laid. Create a great site, see its traffic increasing and one day you will feel the time to move onto a VPS or dedi. But don't start it from VPS directly.

 

seoguru13

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• Jul 23, 2012

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While I do not know your definition of "Authority", I'd say a site that has a lot of traffic coming in (100s of visitors per day) needs better hosting than a hostgator baby plan. No reason to invest today, but as the number of visitors increase, you need to think about the investment, as google does consider page load speed as one metric for ranking your site.

 

ugjunk

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• Jul 23, 2012

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It depends on how much traffic are you getting. If your authority site doesn't have a lot of traffic then Shared hosting is perfectly fine for your purpose.