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01-17-2015 09:36 PM #1 urbano (Member)
Hosting and tracker questions (very noob questions)

So with hosting I get the impression VPS is what to go for. I'm not too up on what is what with servers so I have 2 questions:

1) Why VPS and not standard hosting ? I looked at some standard hosting and they have an up time of 99.9% (this would equate to just over 2 mins of potential down time a day should it go down). there seems to be quiet a price difference between the two

2) What specs should a newbie look for in Core, Ram, Space and Bandwidth ?

With tracking is that something that I load onto the server space that I am renting ?

thanks in advance for the help.

01-18-2015 12:55 AM #2 mattboy (Member)

1) Its all about having better resources to handle volume. If you are dealing with high volume, its important to have fast response times. VPS simply gives more RAM, more CPU. If you are hosting your own tracker, the DB can get very large quickly and if you are serving lots of traffic, you don't want to risk things getting slow. ALso, shared hosting accounts can have decent uptime, but not the greatest performance, because a ton of accounts are all sharing the same resources.

2) For a newbie just starting out, I wouldn't worry too much. I would just get a good VPS plan with servint, liquidweb or similar.

Tracking can be self hosted or you can use hosted platforms. Voluum for example, is something that you don't need to host. Others like imobitrax or CPVlab, you would host on your own server.

01-18-2015 01:56 AM #3 urbano (Member)

Where would Voluum sit in the chain of things if it isn't hosted ? Cloud based ? I'll check it out.

01-18-2015 06:23 AM #4 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Its cloud based and especially useful if you do global mobile campaigns. They have servers distributed all over the continents.

01-18-2015 06:43 AM #5 morganzy (Member)

Is the Beyond Hosting starter VPS still the package to go for?

01-18-2015 09:55 PM #6 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by urbano View Post
So with hosting I get the impression VPS is what to go for. I'm not too up on what is what with servers so I have 2 questions:

1) Why VPS and not standard hosting ? I looked at some standard hosting and they have an up time of 99.9% (this would equate to just over 2 mins of potential down time a day should it go down). there seems to be quiet a price difference between the two

2) What specs should a newbie look for in Core, Ram, Space and Bandwidth ?

With tracking is that something that I load onto the server space that I am renting ?

thanks in advance for the help.
To give you an analogy, shared hosting is like trying to run a business in a storefront where 50 different businesses share the same receptionist desk(s) and floor space. I.e. an absolute nightmare.

Nothing about shared hosting makes it appropriate for AM.

A VPS on the other hand is like being in a mall where every business has their own compartment i.e. store.

A dedicated server is then when you own the mall and are the only one in it.

Shared hosting = you and many other anonymous people are working with the same resources and server hardware. This alone means your performance will fluctuate based on irrelevant people, their activity/sites and their traffic. The server performance is also often questionable, if not unknown.

Quote Originally Posted by morganzy View Post
Is the Beyond Hosting starter VPS still the package to go for?
If you have no server experience and need somewhere to host landers that use PHP, or want to install Thrive, then yes the BH Starter VPS is good. It may pay to contact their support first and ask if Thrive installs work fine on he Starter VPS (i'm unsure) as it is a hybrid vs a typical VPS, hence why it is so cheap while being a fully managed solution (support team handles server stuff for you)

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