MatthewGalloway

Boone, don’t be dishearten I hope by this negativity! Keep up the good work ??

I really wish WordPress had more collaborative writing tools like yours ??
(together with collaborative decision making tools too would be awesome…. for instance when drafting up proposals for a group to submit, get to edit *and* vote together!)

Thanks for the advice, I’ve gone with a shared hosting account which I really trust to be good (and looking into use of a CDN to help offload some of the demand).

If need be I’ll upgrade to something else in the future ??

RichardWPG: that is not at all what I’m looking for, it doesn’t answer my question in the slightest. All it is doing is offering up the (probably) over the top hosting options for a price more than I need to pay.

Also it looks like self promotion too? Which I’m fine with, but would’ve preferred you being more upfront about that ??

Tim S: I know ” WordPress can run on shared hosting quite easily”, done many such sites myself! ??

But my question was about WordPress *e-commerce* websites, as I’m lead to believe they’re significantly more resource hungry than the equivalent WordPress website without e-commerce functionality.

Thus are they unsuitable for shared hosting (or perhaps marginally on the edge here?) and should be on a basic VPS from the very start? (Am I correct in thinking that typically even the cheapest VPS would have more grunt than the shared hosting account?)

Now I read over my original post I think I should’ve clarified my question just a little more, so here goes the addition: it is fairly straightforward the appropriate version of PHP & MySQL etc they need. What isn’t clear is the “hardware” which is required. So is the slither of hardware capacity in a shared hosting account ok, or if a VPS is required what is the appropriate amount of RAM etc which is needed & should be requested from the hosting company?