Small bakery needs online ordering... my daughter says I must ask the young people here... we have maybe twenty customers a day... shared host from some cloud nonsense provider... Contabo I think — https://contabo.com — will it melt if the local paper mentions our croissants... the young people say traffic spikes are nothing but I remember when a mention on the evening news took down a whole datacenter in ninety-eight...
Small bakery needs online ordering. Shared host enough?
I say shared hosting is fine for bakery but I also says put Cloudflare on it before the news hits! I have seen a cupcake shop get flooded because of one TikTok! I am not joking! Get the free tier and sleep peacefully!
Whats cloudflare is it another host do I need to move everything my nephew set up the site and hes at college now
Bakery.example.com? Really? No backorder on the .com? Premium food domains are going for four figures and youre sitting on .example... anyway your TLD wont matter when youre down. Seen UDRP cases with less drama than a local news spike.
world record: 4min Arch install
- Shared hosting handles ~1000 concurrent users on decent plans
- Local news spike = 10x-50x normal traffic for 2-48 hours
- Caching plugin options:
- WP Rocket if WordPress
- LiteSpeed Cache if Contabo runs LiteSpeed
- W3 Total Cache (free but complex)
- Cloudflare free tier adds:
- CDN (faster loading)
- DDoS protection
- Page rules for caching
- Always online feature