Hosting for a site with a large database

**!dahan!** · 07-15-2009, 10:16 PM

A friend of mine has a situation with a site of his.

His current web hosting service is telling him his db is too large and threatening service disruptions, if the db is not brought to a more managable size or the site is moved to a more expensive service. The problem with this is that it's so much beoynd the hosting service's acceptable limits that it's somewhat hard to bring it down below the limit. Obviously the hosting service neither told up front about the size limits or notified about the problem at the time the size went over the limit.

The db is 1GB+ and growing. The other metrics of the site are well within the limits of most (all?) shared web hosting plans. No big files hosted, traffic is moderate at best, no email hosting, etc.

The budget is limited...the site is not a for-profit site, so there's no income. Which is why it's on a shared plan at the moment.

What would you peeps say the best options would be? Cost is most likely the biggest factor, uptime less so, but obviously if the site is down 15 minutes every hour that's not acceptable either.

**fghaegele** · 07-15-2009, 10:56 PM

have you considered hostgator?

**HQHost.net** · 07-16-2009, 06:47 AM

I doubt you could get a shared plan for the db is 1GB+. The fact that a hosting provider allows this on the shared plans won't add popularity to the hosting, as all the other clients on the server with shared plans will be suffering.

What's your project about? How much traffic do you receive? You could post the request for the sponsored hosting here or at any other forum.

**MyRedz** · 07-17-2009, 06:22 PM

well try premium hosting then.with dedicated servers.
well dreamhost anyone?

**eggheadhosting** · 07-18-2009, 10:10 AM

I think you'll better do visiting www.kvchosting.com

**DnaJinx** · 07-22-2009, 03:25 AM

Why dont you suggest him to take VPS and transfer his site

**rumsfo** · 07-22-2009, 04:11 AM

I assume if you are looking to have fast connections to the database you need to chose the solution with database placed on the same server as account. Some providers might offer you the solution with db and account on the separate server.
So I assume that would be wise at least to have all the stuff at least tested.
Good luck

**~ServerPoint~** · 07-23-2009, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rumsfo

I assume if you are looking to have fast connections to the database you need to chose the solution with database placed on the same server as account. Some providers might offer you the solution with db and account on the separate server.
So I assume that would be wise at least to have all the stuff at least tested.
Good luck

That is ordinary for the most of shared accounts.

**fghaegele** · 07-23-2009, 05:32 PM

Why couldn't shared hosting work with a large database?

A personal aside: Unless this application is going to be the next big thing, I honestly wouldn't worry too much about the potential performance penalties suffered by the other sites.

Maybe that's just my attitude. Is this bad?

**NCNBNT** · 07-31-2009, 09:00 PM

I advice you to go VPS.Or search for any Dedicted server offer(SALE) .Then you will have not any problem with DB

**freepost** · 08-03-2009, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NCNBNT

I advice you to go VPS.Or search for any Dedicted server offer(SALE) .Then you will have not any problem with DB

Needn't VPS. If not daily more then 10k hits

**SiberForum** · 08-04-2009, 03:19 AM

Place the request for the non profit web site hosting. I suppose this time you will be able to get some discounts

**rumsfo** · 08-05-2009, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fghaegele

Why couldn't shared hosting work with a large database?

A personal aside: Unless this application is going to be the next big thing, I honestly wouldn't worry too much about the potential performance penalties suffered by the other sites.

Maybe that's just my attitude. Is this bad?

I assume that in any way that depends on the web hosting provider you are with. That is not placed obviously but I assume you can get this information from your web host

**~ServerPoint~** · 08-05-2009, 12:16 PM

Database is hosted on the same server as web site is so in any case the account size do include the size of database as well

**JeffNetSite** · 08-07-2009, 04:09 AM

You can try to contact hostgator presales agent and ask if they allow.

**rumsfo** · 08-07-2009, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeffNetSite

You can try to contact hostgator presales agent and ask if they allow.

As well as any other web host. Any shared web hosting service provider I mean

**forumplace** · 08-09-2009, 10:59 AM

Hi,
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