Can webhost handle the traffic?

[huladier]

I plan on opening a (simple) website for e-commerce. In this type of website will have a hugh peak in sales and traffic in the first week then taper off quickly. There could be as much as 150k hits/transactions per day. My question is, will the webhost be able to handle the traffic? I wouldn't want a situation where a customer couldn't get on or worse. I assume that the webhost will just bill me for extra bandwidth or whatever I'm am taking up. Are there precautions I should take or will things take care of itself?

[jameer]

You need to have a VPS hosting package rather a shared one. VPS hosting package may withstand the kind of traffic requirements you have. Still you need to identify the reliable and cheap hosting provider in the industry.

[royking]

In my opinion shared hosting will be more beneficial for you. As your site have good traffic and also you need good space for your product. In shared hosting you will get good amount of space and also bandwidth, which will not drop your site in offline mode.

[cathy0129]

the private vps host can handle that,i think.

[Petervirus]

I believe that VPS hosting solution will be the best fit for your needs. as for recommendation, check rightservers.com - it is the best web host for cloud hosting, their cloud VPS plans can meet all your demands. I recommend this host for those who are looking value-for-money webhosting services.

[pingpipe]

It sounds like you are needing a mission critical solution; don't assume that things will take care of themselves. If you have the budget you might want to consider setting up a failover/load balanced configuration.

[kamruddin]

Hey if you are really worried then just buy a dedicated server