I am planning to develop 15 Drupal (and / or) Wordpress sites over the next three sites. These will not be so-called "minisites" for the purpose of monetizing traffic. Rather these 15 sites will be 'real' web sites with fresh content and perhaps a few sites (I hope) will gain user bases. Several of the sites will be blog type sites and a few will be community type sites. I (hope) that there will be occasional traffic spikes coming from links posted on social media.
Anyways, I currently am on a shared hosting plan with HostGator (paid until mid-2016). However, because I am just planning this development of multiple sites right now. I am not knowledgable about hosting options to know the best way to go about developing so many web sites (15 Drupal and / or Wordpress sites) because I don't think it will work well on shared hosting with HostGator. Perhaps this is obvious, but I don't actually know what I need to develop this many CMS based web sites.
Can you guys please give some tips on hosting to meet my needs? I mean, should I just invest in my own server now to avoid wasting time trying to migrate the sites from HostGator later on? Or can you guys please also suggest web hosting companies that offer reasonable options to meet my needs for multiple Drupal and Wordpress sites running smoothly.
My final concerned about shared hosting (probably should have mentioned this earlier) is that with HostGator my shared hosting package is also shared with many "spammy" sites. I don't think it's good for Google SEO (or anything else) to be hosted on the same server with other spammy sites. But in the past, I have ONLY purchased these kind of affordable shared hosting packages, so again I don't really know what I need.
The sites I am planning to develop will NOT be spammy in any way. They will be filled with fresh and interesting content (is the plan) and will hopefully be driven by organic growth as well as social media accounts driving some interest (but not spamming).
Thanks in advance for your input on what kind of hosting solution I can get for my needs. Hope to get some replies!
Anyways, I currently am on a shared hosting plan with HostGator (paid until mid-2016). However, because I am just planning this development of multiple sites right now. I am not knowledgable about hosting options to know the best way to go about developing so many web sites (15 Drupal and / or Wordpress sites) because I don't think it will work well on shared hosting with HostGator. Perhaps this is obvious, but I don't actually know what I need to develop this many CMS based web sites.
Can you guys please give some tips on hosting to meet my needs? I mean, should I just invest in my own server now to avoid wasting time trying to migrate the sites from HostGator later on? Or can you guys please also suggest web hosting companies that offer reasonable options to meet my needs for multiple Drupal and Wordpress sites running smoothly.
My final concerned about shared hosting (probably should have mentioned this earlier) is that with HostGator my shared hosting package is also shared with many "spammy" sites. I don't think it's good for Google SEO (or anything else) to be hosted on the same server with other spammy sites. But in the past, I have ONLY purchased these kind of affordable shared hosting packages, so again I don't really know what I need.
The sites I am planning to develop will NOT be spammy in any way. They will be filled with fresh and interesting content (is the plan) and will hopefully be driven by organic growth as well as social media accounts driving some interest (but not spamming).
Thanks in advance for your input on what kind of hosting solution I can get for my needs. Hope to get some replies!