Hosting a WordPress site with 400 pages

  • Greetings! I am working on a website for a theater company. The core of the site is coming along great (you can take a look at https://mediaparlour.com/prt), and they plan on adding “archive” pages for almost 200 shows (a wordpress page for each performance that has taken place in the theater), and 200 member pages with bios and a photo. No video or audio is hosted on these pages, just YouTube or Vimeo files if anything.

    I’m not great with hosting but I have a feeling that their GoDaddy Economy hosting plan will not suffice (but perhaps the Deluxe will?). I’d love to hear some suggestions. Currently their archives are set up on a subdomain (archives.theatercompany.com), on a separate hosting account from their main website, but each page was hand coded html. Now that we’re switching to WordPress, I’d love to keep everything under the same admin.

    Your feedback is appreciated!

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  • Pages don’t take up a lot of resources (HD space, etc). You need to consider how many visitors they have because this effects on their bandwidth consumption and obviously also on performance. If their traffic is normal I don’t see this as a problem. I don’t know about GoDaddy plans but I presume their current account has PHP and MySQL enabled.

    vickistep,

    As emke said, it shouldn’t make that much of a difference how many pages you have. Of course, there is technically a limit because there is a size limitation for a database, but I don’t think 400 pages would hit the one gigabyte limit. In terms of power, though, it doesn’t matter if you have an Economy or Deluxe plan. A Deluxe plan offers some additional features, like more disk space and concurrent users, but the available processing power is the same.
    If the time ever comes when you do need additional power, you’d want to look into getting a dedicated server or our new Managed Hosting service. However, that usually isn’t necessary for a WordPress site unless very power-hungry plugins are used.

    Thread Starter vickistep

    (@vickistep)

    Oh great information! Thank you both.

    all hosting compayes are near to be liers ??

    Disk space doesn’t matter, with only 3 of my sites I have almost 300.000+ pages.

    The real factor of a hosting: RAM and PROCESSOR

    Webserver mode: these from 5 to 7$ month…. ask your provider how many sql connections can handle at the same time… awfull

    VPS: here we can begin to talk about hosting… you will recive what you pay, but you must test (pay) to know what do you really need

    PS: The same as VPS, but better.

    SQL Querys, RAM reserved for your site, and processor reserved for your site’s processes are the real things to think ?? Not terabytes of hardisk/bandwidth….

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