I have a relatively simple PHP (Codeigniter) website that I am currently running on a shared host while it has been in development. Needless to say, I haven't been impressed with the performance of the site and would like to move it to a speedy host before we launch.<p>Right now we don't have much traffic but I'm hoping to get around 1000 visitors/day come launch time (hey a boy can dream right?). Could I kindly ask on your suggestions on start-up friendly hosting options?<p>Thanks in advance.
Took a look at Linode since it seems to be so highly recommended.<p>Looks like it will be a significant learning curve since I will need to install everything myself (LAMP stack, svn, etc). Is there any way to do a 1 click installation?<p>Thanks again for the help.
I use ICDsoft for my site (MapCrunch), and can strongly recommend them.<p>They are a shared host but I've not experienced any problems, even during traffic spikes (>25k visitors).<p>Their support is also incredible and responds to queries within minutes.
I'd check out the searchyc.com engine for answers, but off the top of my head:<p><pre><code> * SliceHost/Rackspace Cloud
* Linode
* EC2 (carefully)
* Web Faction</code></pre>