tanvirkazmi

A note to add more perspective on this problem.

My blog monthly views average about 225,000.
By blog database size is 62.5 MB with the wp_posts taking up 40MB.

I am sure the above numbers are pretty ordinary. Given these, what kind of hosting would be advisable? I talked to Hostgator and they straightaway recommended their Basic Dedicated Server ($139/mo). They also advised me against their VPS saying it was not a performance platform. Several months ago, another of their support guy had given me a figure that shared hosting can easily handle 45K daily pageviews. But I guess this is subjective and vary blog to blog.

I am also talking to WordPress oriented hosting services, in particular WPEngine ($249/mo) and Websynthesis ($97/mo). WPEngine looks very costly by comparison but has a neat set of features (staging area, auto caching, backups etc). WebSynthesis is the lowest costing out of these three and supports much more pageviews/day compared to WPEngine (I calculated an equivalent cost of a sixth of WPEngine for same number of pageviews).

Should a move to a WordPress specific host be considered, any experiences from WordPress experts here would be useful. Or just jump to basic dedicated server from Hostgator, analyze it over few months, learn from the experience, and then see how it goes.

Thanks,

Thanks for your comments, esmi. Does this imply that it would be okay to continue to create more pages on self hosted wordpress blog (going upto my target limit of about 15,000 pages) and the slowness issues would be resolved by the hosting? Or are there inherent problems in the WP implementation which will cause problems which may not be resolved by moving to a better server?

I mean there are blogs with huge number of posts, all running wordpress, so apparently WP does a good job with posts (as long as permalinks are used intelligently, year/month/day format being probably the best, or one of), but when we are talking about pages, that I think will be a different ball game altogether.

Would just moving to a better server be the answer. Or would one of the answers be that wordpress itself wont be able to handle this and this problem needs another CMS?

Thanks! The problem got fixed all by itself without having to contact Hostgator. I really worry what impact these situations have on search engines.

thanks samboll, you have been a lifesaver!