By alden
Hey guys,
I’m about to sign up for a plan right here, but before that, I’d like some reassurance.
I’ve been trying to find a good web host. I’ve used Hostgator and Blue Host, but they didn’t get the job done in terms of handling a major traffic spike. I suffered all sorts of problems with them.
I was just wondering if anyone who is using Digital Ocean have had any issues with their servers when it comes to handling a traffic spike. I’m talking like 200k visitors in a day.
Would love your input.
Thanks!
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A WordPress installation on a 512MB droplet can handle that easily, if properly set up, e.g. with Nginx (instead of Apache); caching; and a CDN for static content.
Digital Ocean is not web hosting, here you get unmanaged VPS that you can scale up with your needs.
Thanks guys. <br> <br>It’s not web hosting? Ugh well, I’m really not technical savvy at all. <br> <br>Well my current domain is already being hosted (a standard dedicated package under Blue Host, I shifted from Hostgator, but that account is still up). <br> <br>I planned to get a refund from Blue Host as I’m experiencing a lot of problems with them. <br> <br>Is this to say, I can have my domain up at Hostgator still, and enhance everything with Digital Ocean?
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