Emergency maintenance on Olga

[Matt]

Well once you start having paid subscriptions if it were me I would look into a dedicated server if you think that your growth from subscriber fees will eventually (or currently) cover the costs of a dedicated machine. they are MUCH faster and reliable than any shared hosting account could ever hope to be. Nothing turns off subscribers than a slow or down server. But a speedy server with better reliability will actually encourage more paying subscribers.

So if you are looking for 24/7 availability the closest thing you can have to that without getting into some very high-end load-balanced multiple dedicated server setup, would be a managed dedicated server.

You should be able to easily achieved ~99.97% uptime on a single dedicated server. If you need four-nines (99.99%) or five-nines (99.999%) then get ready to start shelling out the dough

A dedicated server is more than enough up time for the vast majority of income producing web sites out there, and a matter of fact, of you are accepting payments especially via credit card you should be on a dedicated server anyways to be in line with credit card industry regulations.