Using Hostgator for a product launch

codo3500 · May 15, 2011

Hey guys,

Hostgator has assured me that for my product launch tomorrow I'll be fine. I'll be selling an eBook which is downloadable from the server,

I could easily get 2000 visitors in an hour, I could potentially have 100 people buy the book in 24 hours - will they suspend me? They've promised not to, but I can't afford for it to happen.

Anyone with experience would be much appreciated,

Cheers,
JC

Hostwinds · May 17, 2011

Shoot me a PM, I can work something out for you cheaper than Hostgator, and your "we wont supsend you promise" won't get lost between support techs

codo3500 · May 18, 2011

Already launched - apparently on 20mbps, crashed and cost me a shitload of sales - Hostgator suck.

Janpower · May 18, 2011

but you did still make some money?

RedWolf · May 18, 2011

if you are making gud money go with VPS

jbisana17 · May 18, 2011

or use a dedicated server so that it can accept a bunch of downloads..

Enigma32 · May 18, 2011

If you're expecting 2000 visitors an hour, *NOBODY* will hold up to that on shared hosting. You need atleast a VPS.

Plus not 100% their fault... if you made the site require 1mb to load vs 50k to load, two very very different outcomes there.

Hostwinds · May 18, 2011

spydure said:
Shoot me a PM, I can work something out for you cheaper than Hostgator, and your "we wont supsend you promise" won't get lost between support techs

While I do feel your pain and we could have worked something out 20Mbps is a ridiculous transfer rate for you to expect a shared hosting company to sustain, most VPS's dont even come with 20 Mbps most are on 10Mbps lines

junkie2 · May 22, 2011

ive never gotten suspended with HG. right now i have ~ 20 blogs off their reseller package. tbh ive tried a shit ton of hosts but i keep going back to HG for some reason

jeffern · May 22, 2011

I use Amazon S3 cloud to serve all static files. It is ridiculously cheap, and you could have hundreds of thousands of visitors an hour and it won't even be a blip for their server capacity.

junkie2 · May 22, 2011

jeffern said:
I use Amazon S3 cloud to serve all static files. It is ridiculously cheap, and you could have hundreds of thousands of visitors an hour and it won't even be a blip for their server capacity.

ya listen to this guy.

w3 total cache + amazon s3 cdn. my sites run so fast with this setup

``Yousef · May 22, 2011

junkie2 said:
ya listen to this guy.

w3 total cache + amazon s3 cdn. my sites run so fast with this setup

+1

You'll want a large scale cloud service like Amazon S3 to deliver static files (images and videos especially as these will really bump up server usage).

I think Rackspace offer a similar service as well (with better support), but I'm not entirely sure.

moneycode · May 27, 2011

i never got any problem with hostgator before, and i've launched tons of products with it. I guess ordinary host plan work okay.

elsassg · May 31, 2011

Is Hostgator work properly?

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