(02-12-2021, 09:02 PM)Spokes Wrote:(02-12-2021, 12:46 PM)ac3r Wrote: I wonder what and where the admin pays for hosting. My website is on a $11.00 a month hosting service and has unlimited bandwidth/storage space/SQL etc. It's not a dedicated server, but I doubt WRC has enough traffic to justify running on Xeon's either.
Not to derail the thread but what are xeons? Did my lack of knowledge just show?
They're a line of Intel CPUs generally used on dedicated server hardware (shared servers can use them too, but with dedicated you get full access to the server hardware as opposed to sharing it with other customers). A dedicated server with such dedicated power is really only needed if you're serving a massive amount of web traffic.
I was just curious since I don't think WRC is so popular you'd be needing that much raw power or bandwidth, so a shared server could be sufficient and not cost more than $150 per year. I did a whois lookup and it looks like Hostinger shared servers limit customers to 10, 20 or 100GB of SSD space which is unfortunately not a lot, but there are definitely other hosting companies that provide "unlimited" space (in quotes because as others said, they can throttle if you were filling up terabytes worth of their storage space) for pretty cheap without drastically slowing down the website.
But this has become very off topic haha...