Slashdotted web site seeks new home

Posted by Arthur Edelstein on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Arthur Edelstein
Published on 2011-02-18T04:31:41Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 7:33 UTC
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I am maintaining a website that contains mostly simple html (just a little php). Normally the site receives only 4000 hits per month, but it was recently slashdotted by the New York Times (>30,000 visitors and 30 GB in a day) and the web host provider (bluehost) throttled the CPU in response. This slowed down the website considerably. What web host providers would offer a more scalable solution? Ideally I would like a high-quality host that charges by the GB and can handle bandwidth to expand during sudden slashdotting episodes without a reduction in performance.

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