Thinking about switching

[ubertro]

I’m looking for a new host for my existing web site. On August 2008, I released a social networking web site on a shared host. Currently, I’m noticing major performance issues (slow load times, response timeouts, etc). The web site is actually a ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 web application using compiled assemblies (a class library framework I developed myself), and a SQL Server 2005 back-end. Under a subdomain, I am also hosting a mobile web application. My framework is very lean and I am making little use of postbacks. I have roughly 20,000 users and I average about 1200 GB monthly bandwidth (my users are able to post images, videos files under 10 MB, and audio files under 5 MB).

I have two questions:

1. Could Discount ASP host my web site without taking a major hit in performance? Or should I consider straying away from shared hosting and look towards purchasing a dedicated server?
2. Does Discount ASP allow Data Caching?

[Eric]

Honestly, from the current site usage stats that you state and asuming you are still growing in membership, you should go with a dedicated hosting solution.