08-06-2012, 02:24 PM
To answer your question:
No.
First of all, switching to a private server will not eliminate the concerns you have. If you did this, your new private server would be just as vulnerable to hacker/DOS attacks , and it would have the same probability of hardware failure. It's true that your probability of being hacked will be lower as you'd be the only site on the server, but if it happens, the damage will either be the same, or worse.
Secondly, $540 is a huge, huge, huge chunk of money, especially for a website and wiki. Souls is large and old, yes, but you'd have so much unused space and resources that it would be silly to pay that much to use so little. $540 is what someone would pay to host an online MMORPG with a hundred users online at any time.
I understand how you feel. However, if you still feel threatened, you have another, perhaps better option than paying all that money : automatic backups. I believe that in your hosting cPanel, you have the option to make automatic backups yourself. Monthly backups are sufficient for any normal site. If you feel threatened, consider weekly backups. If you feel paranoid and extremely, extremely threatened, every day or twice a week backups.
Quote:This would elliminate the problem of other clients on the server affecting us, but it would also set us back $540/year, which is more than seven times what we're currently paying for hosting.
No.
First of all, switching to a private server will not eliminate the concerns you have. If you did this, your new private server would be just as vulnerable to hacker/DOS attacks , and it would have the same probability of hardware failure. It's true that your probability of being hacked will be lower as you'd be the only site on the server, but if it happens, the damage will either be the same, or worse.
Secondly, $540 is a huge, huge, huge chunk of money, especially for a website and wiki. Souls is large and old, yes, but you'd have so much unused space and resources that it would be silly to pay that much to use so little. $540 is what someone would pay to host an online MMORPG with a hundred users online at any time.
I understand how you feel. However, if you still feel threatened, you have another, perhaps better option than paying all that money : automatic backups. I believe that in your hosting cPanel, you have the option to make automatic backups yourself. Monthly backups are sufficient for any normal site. If you feel threatened, consider weekly backups. If you feel paranoid and extremely, extremely threatened, every day or twice a week backups.