Hi,

Can I ask you something? Do you find reasonable budget shared hosting plans have to include social networking tools such as Pligg, Wiki and etc. I'm asking this question because those software applications take significan ammount of the CPU and server resources.... especially when they have many and pluggins installed?

It is important to define the line of service and this is a process because the web technologies is developing month by month.

Thanks in advance!

IN a word: "no". If it's a budget plan, it should include budget resources.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

IN a word: "no". If it's a budget plan, it should include budget resources.

Agreed, unless you make a specific plan made for these, which of course would cost more money. You could also consider load balancing some shared servers if you insist on doing this.

(1) Social = lots of users interacting with each other through the service. Lots being the key word. That implies a heavy load.

(2) Not all code is equal. Your scripts should be written for ASP.NET instead of PHP since even haters say ASP.NET is the framework that's able to cope with enterprise level scale. Which is what you're trying to do. Your scripts should also be compiled and run from binary code and not interpreted line by line from the source code while it's running.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

(2) Not all code is equal. Your scripts should be written for ASP.NET instead of PHP since even haters say ASP.NET is the framework that's able to cope with enterprise level scale. Which is what you're trying to do. Your scripts should also be compiled and run from binary code and not interpreted line by line from the source code while it's running.

If using asp.net, you should still be building via the mvc pattern and have an absolute minimal amount of scripting in the asp pages themselves.
This can allow the server to spawn instances of objects based on load and available threads, while keeping a handle on resources such as database connections.