Best Hosting Company for Large/Growing Sites?

[newsgroup guy]

If someone asked you what might be the best option for a webmaster who's starting a site that is going to keep growing, what company would you suggest?

Is there a company that offers unlimited space (or at least like 200-300 GB)? And it would probably need some nice bandwidth, too.

I don't know what other info one might need to know in order to make suggestions like this, but think of a website like YouTube, always getting bigger due to never-ending uploads, or a site that offers large downloads (not that YouTube is not a website that you can download from, ha, ha).

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

I would search or ask in http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

But I doubt you will find any company that offers unlimited hdd space....if you aren't willing to pay $$$$$$$.

[jagabo]

200 to 300 GB isn't large. The cheapest plans from most hosts are in that range. Monthly bandwidth quota may be more of a problem. One random example:

https://www.aplus.net/webhosting/plan-and-pricing

[newsgroup guy]

Thank you very much.

Well, we were paying a little less than what those companies with 200 - 300 GB are charging, so I guess that is why the difference (namely that we had about 30 GB).

But it's good to know that there are options.


On a related note, does anyone know what improvements should be expected by switching to what our current hosting company is referring to as VPS? Or would it be better to just go with a hosting company that offers 200 - 300 GB from the start?


Thanks again!