How Much Traffic Can Shared Web Hosting (for a Python Django site) support?

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How Much Traffic Can Shared Web Hosting Take?

stated that a $5/mo shared hosting account on Reliablesite.net can support 10,000 - 20,000 unique users/day and 100,000 - 200,000 pageviews/day. That seems awfully high for a $5/mo account. And someone else told me it's far less than that. What's your experience?

I have a site based on Python, Django, MySQL/Postgresql. It doesn't have any video or other bandwidth heavy elements, but the whole site is dynamic, each page takes about 5 to 10 DB query, 90% reads, 10% writes.

Reliablesite.net is an ASP.NET hosting company. Any Python/LAMP hosting firm that can support 100-200,000 pageviews on a shared hosting account? If not, what kind of numbers am I looking at? Any suggestions for good hosting firms?

Thanks

Answer 1

100,000 - 200,000 pageviews/day is on average 2 pageviews/s, at most you'll get 10-20 pageviews/s during busy hours. That's not a lot to handle, especially if you have caching.

Anyways, I'd go for VPS. The problem with shared server is that you can never know the pattern of use the other ppl have.

Answer 2

Webfaction hosting hosts nearly 10 sites of ours handling over 10k users each day, easily. I am also told that Slicehost is just as good.

Webfaction and Slicehost are often looked upto for mod_wsgi python hosting, which is fast becoming the preferred way to host django apps.

These hosts seem to be on a slightly higher side of the charges/month; but its worth it, as they are reliable.