Hi Jamie,
Thanks for all the information.
Jamie Holly wrote:
Overall though I would say you are at the point shared hosting isn't going to cut it anymore. I doubt they will change to much to accommodate your site since they also have to consider the other sites on the machine. I would start looking at going to some other hosting solution, be it dedicated, VPS or cloud.
Three questions:
1. What's cloud? 2. Does a VPS avoid the problems of a shared host? 3. Can these option handle the 500 HTTP requests? 4. Can you recommend a service for a *managed* VPS or similar that has very good support for a modest price?
At the current exchange rate, we are spending about $35/month. We can up this a lot, but I think $400/month is out of our range right now.
Daniel.