lol, there is a world of difference between hosting a personal homepage...

and a site that generates the level of traffic WotB does.

Shared hosting or a virtual dedicated server are just not powerful enough to sustain the number of page views this site generates.

The only option for WotB is a dedicated server with a high bandwidth connection.

I have chosen Rackspace as the host as they offer the best technical support around and one of the fastest and most reliable networks.

These are last years visitor stats as taken from awstats:

Month-----Unique---Number----Pages------------------------------
------------visitors---of visits-------------------Hits------Bandwidth
Jan 2006---18276---61214---3472649---5644533---54.38GB
Feb 2006---15950---54109---2677040---4494177---42.62GB
Mar 2006---13235---49017---2087623---3455795---36.75GB
Apr 2006---12176---41607---1780822---2875636---29.96GB
May 2006---12876---48785---1977318---3203198---31.59GB
Jun 2006---11104---44152---1568074---2532704---27.33GB
Jul 2006-----14248---51490---2141417---3538456---37.62GB
Aug 2006---16128---57899---2588532---4158217---42.57GB
Sep 2006---16213---57353---2321191---3644624---33.46GB
Oct 2006---18203---62936---2844197---4430011---41.28GB
Nov 2006---15254---55131---2343249---3593138---32.64GB
Dec 2006---14212---46663---2045177---2999307---25.72GB
Total------177875--630356--27847289--44569796--435.91GB

Posted By: Ben, Jan 15, 21:20:33