Buddypress on Bluehost

  • Resolved fahimc97

    (@fahimc97)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hi

    I am currently setting up a site on wordpress – using the goodnews theme from themeforest – and I am integrating bidypress. I am using bluehost – the standard package – unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space.

    I will have roughly 1000-1500 users signing up to the forum – with upto 100 users online at peak times.

    I was just wandering whether this hosting package I have – on a shared server – would suffice for this project – without slowing the site down too much?

    Or will I have to for something like a VPS?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • It all depends on how much activity those 100 on-line users generate.

    I think you should ask the question of BlueHost. Now, before you get into this project very far. Because they are the ones who will “shut you down” if you use too many resources. Hopefully, your inquiry will prompt BlueHost to give you some ideas about how to monitor and perhaps even streamline your WordPress usage of their resources.

    Depending where you go, a VPS can actually be a more troublesome solution, as VPS providers limit memory and processor resources in a way that is less able to cope with momentary usage spikes. Some hosts much more than others, i.e. – one I’ve used will automatically reboot your VPS if you hit your memory limit just once!

    Thread Starter fahimc97

    (@fahimc97)

    Thanks for the response

    The main part of this website will be the forum – So users will be going through posts and posting replies – they will not be able to create posts to begin with

    I will get in touch with bluehost and ask them – thanks for the advice

    From what I’ve seen, any high traffic sites will do better when the database is well optimized and the WordPress install is using some sort of caching. I would recommend checking out the plugin directory for caching: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=caching

    Thread Starter fahimc97

    (@fahimc97)

    I’ve installed WP super cache – it seems to do the job

    And the database is currently being optimised

    Thanks for the reply

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