Ballpark web hosting requirements and prices...?
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Hi folks,
I am currently involved in discussions on the birth of a new nationwide business portal for an Eastern European country. It's one of these standard directory type-things, with free listings for businesses but with enhanced options for a fee.
I am fairly new to this sort of thing, but these days this is not such a huge undertaking, especially if you buy an off-the-shelf package.
I just have a couple of quick questions regarding the hosting we will need, and if a good answer is provided, please let me know your URL so I can put you at the top of the shortlist for the business.
Initial targets are in the region of a few thousand unique hits a day, with for the sake of argument a million records. 100% (or as close to) uptime is an absolute priority. Daily backups would also probably be a requirement. A massive pipe straight into a backbone goes without saying.
As I am new to this sort of thing, I'm not positive on what the exact web space and bandwidth requirements will be, but I expect in any case we're talking dedicated servers.
Can anyone just give me a rough ballpark cost projection of how much the hosting would cost? This is not going to be a yell.com, so it's not a case of balls-out no compromise, but we need something that is solid, reliable and easily scalable.
I cannot give any more information than that at this stage.
Just one final question: as the site will be a portal for a particular eastern European country, which is unlikely to have a good selection of hosts of the calibre that we require, is it a problem at all to host in the UK or US instead of in the target country? Just thinking about the latency.
Any feedback appreciated.
Rudi
>> Edited by -DeaDLocK- on Wednesday 31st August 10:19
I am currently involved in discussions on the birth of a new nationwide business portal for an Eastern European country. It's one of these standard directory type-things, with free listings for businesses but with enhanced options for a fee.
I am fairly new to this sort of thing, but these days this is not such a huge undertaking, especially if you buy an off-the-shelf package.
I just have a couple of quick questions regarding the hosting we will need, and if a good answer is provided, please let me know your URL so I can put you at the top of the shortlist for the business.
Initial targets are in the region of a few thousand unique hits a day, with for the sake of argument a million records. 100% (or as close to) uptime is an absolute priority. Daily backups would also probably be a requirement. A massive pipe straight into a backbone goes without saying.
As I am new to this sort of thing, I'm not positive on what the exact web space and bandwidth requirements will be, but I expect in any case we're talking dedicated servers.
Can anyone just give me a rough ballpark cost projection of how much the hosting would cost? This is not going to be a yell.com, so it's not a case of balls-out no compromise, but we need something that is solid, reliable and easily scalable.
I cannot give any more information than that at this stage.
Just one final question: as the site will be a portal for a particular eastern European country, which is unlikely to have a good selection of hosts of the calibre that we require, is it a problem at all to host in the UK or US instead of in the target country? Just thinking about the latency.
Any feedback appreciated.
Rudi
>> Edited by -DeaDLocK- on Wednesday 31st August 10:19
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