Help choosing a package with TSOHost.

Emphacy · 2 Jul 2011 at 13:04

After reading several threads and reviews, I have realised 1&1 are crap and I've quickly decided I'm going to set up my website on TSOHost... Tomorrow!

My website is based around the WordPress engine, although it's been heavily modified to suite my needs. The website is essentially a Computer How-To website with it's own 12,000 entry glossary/dictionary and an addition of other stuff.
Hopefully If I can get enough content on the thing it will be able to compete heavily with other ones!

I've been looking at the TSOHost packages, and I'm unsure how much bandwidth or disk space a website like this could use.
I'm stuck between choosing a Standard and Pro package, I mean what's the point in choosing a Pro package if I don't need it?

Even 10GB disk space with the pro package doesn't quite seem a lot to me, the core website engine itself takes around 250MB of space on it's own!
How likely is it that a website like this could exceed 20GB (STD) or 150GB (PRO) bandwidth?

Thanks OcUK.

Tetsujin · 2 Jul 2011 at 13:22

Well, given you've already got the site, figuring your diskspace needs should be easy - either check 1&1's reports of your diskspace quota, or if they don't show it, download the files locally and check. Then add in phpMyAdmin's size report of the DB.

For bandwidth, you could do worse than use firebug, request a few typical pages, note down the total download sizes, and work out how many hits you expect to get, and therefore work out your bandwidth requirements.

-OR- once you know your page average transfer sizes, divide that into the 20Gb/150Gb std/pro and see how many hits you'd need before you needed pro. If that's 10x what you have right now, then you don't need pro.

Emphacy · 2 Jul 2011 at 15:01

Thanks for the reply but the website isn't running on any proper system yet, only on my local machine for testing purposes, I guess I didn't really make that clear in the OP.
I was originally going to go with 1&1 Hosting, that is all.

Tetsujin · 2 Jul 2011 at 15:02

Ah I see, well, same still holds; check local filesystem and DB folder usage, and access locally in Firefox with Firebug on and check the sizes.

3dcandy · 2 Jul 2011 at 17:10

I have a number of sites running on tsohost using wordpress and none of them use the bandwidth of a standard account yet. I'd possibly start with standard and then move up to Pro if you need it later. Switching up accounts should be almost instant...