Marketing & Advertising

Server infrastructure for Affiliate Marketing

Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Affiliate Marketing actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.

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Recommended builds by size

Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.

Small

1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month

Shared Hosting

Single Core
3 GB RAM
30 GB storage

A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.

Medium

11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month

Shared Hosting

Single Core
3 GB RAM
30 GB storage

A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.

Large

51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month

VPS

6 Cores
10 GB RAM
50 GB storage

Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.

Which tiers suit Affiliate Marketing

Infrastructure	Verdict	Why
Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server	Recommended	A brochure site with light traffic runs comfortably on shared hosting, and the managed platform means no server to look after.
VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access	Recommended	A VPS gives you root, your own PHP and Nginx versions, and room for the site to grow past what shared hosting allows.
VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone	Workable	Worth moving to once the site fronts an application rather than pages, or when a slow neighbour has cost you a lead.
Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification	Workable	More machine than a brochure site needs, but the right answer when it sits alongside other systems on the same box.
Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads	Not this one	Bare metal is sized for sustained heavy compute; a brochure site would leave almost all of it idle.

Affiliate Marketing workloads you can host

Every click is a redirect that has to be logged and forwarded in milliseconds — tiny requests, enormous counts.

Click tracking & redirects
Conversion postbacks
Commission calculation
Publisher portal
Fraud detection

Affiliate Marketing hosting by city

Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.

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Affiliate Marketing hosting — FAQs

What server specification do Affiliate Marketing usually need?

It depends on volume more than on the industry. A medium-sized operation working from about 50,000 visits a month lands around single core, 3 GB of memory and 30 GB of storage.

How were these figures worked out?

From an assumed traffic level, the number of requests each page makes, and how much data the application keeps warm — then rounded up to a build we actually sell. They are assumptions stated out loud rather than measurements of your business.

Can we change size later?

Yes. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address.