Is shared hosting feasible for this spec...

[crazyfool]

[FONT='Tahoma','sans-serif']Hi all

I am a first time website maker and need a web host and am considering Hostgator. I am about to start a website which will have a software of size 10 MB available to download, and screenshots and 5-6 flash tutorials. I will also run a forum which will have at least 30 friends as registered users in 3 months. My programmer told me I might not be able to run this on a $10 per month type shared host because of CPU usage etc issues. Is this true? Am I likely to run into issues with say the Swamp plan for such usage?

Any help/info from support as well as experienced folks (especially for similar usages) would be greatly appreciated…

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[calmiller56]

You should be fine with baby web hosting IMO,
Im running 4-5 pretty CPU intensive sites on that right now..
I love HG's servers!

[crazyfool]

I guess thats good news then!

Also, the Hatchling plan will suffice for my needs right? Apart from the 1 or 2 features listed at http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml
is there any preference or benefit to Swamp customers?

[calmiller56]

Hatchling only allows 1 domain correct?
Your going to want at least baby....
More domains = better :-)
I think you can update later though to higher

[jakeruston]

Yeah, the HostGator Servers are powerful enough to run what you need.