[ryanhellyer]

I've been steadily building traffic over the past few months to the point where I was aware that I was probably pushing the limits of my US$10/month Hostgator shared account. I contacted Hostgator about this and they said my peak CPU usage was 15% and my maximum was 25%.

However, in the past two days my traffic is skyrocketed to the point where if it keeps up, I'll be looking at ~40,000 uniques per month and ~240,000 page views or so.

The sites I'm hosting were all database driven with comments, forums etc. (SMF and WordPress). Although I've now converted one to a static site to help with server load and I've installed WP-Cache to help with the WordPress sites. I'm guessing I'll need to upgrade shortly though as I'm steadily building traffic all the time.


So .... I really don't want to upgrade to a dedicated server if I can avoid it. I also don't have any experience/desire to manage my own server, so a cheapie unmanaged dedicated isn't an option.


Do any of you have any good suggestions for a web host for me? They will need to have high CPU limits and support all the regular linux goodies, preferably including CPanel but that's not a requirement.