Hivelocity is known for overselling VPS/shared, and their dedicated are only cheaper the first month compared to Knownhost; after which Knownhost is much cheaper than Hivelocity for similar machines.Have you tried Hivelocity? They are a better than Knownhost (no issues with them yet) in terms of price and support.
It's digitalocean?$30 a month vps is enough. Elasticsearch, redis, page/guest caching, dozens of addons etc. 8gb ram, nvme drives and two 3.5ghz cores. 499GB of video attachments, unlimited bandwidth. No complaints. Don't waste your money on building the equivalent of a $5000 gaming PC so you can play cyberpunk with ray tracing. Xenforo isn't cyberpunk. It will run well on a well configured potato. Use an outside mail provider. Compiling and maintaining your own secure mail server for a forum is an unnecessary time vampire and security hazard. SES costs a couple dollars a month.
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I don't get why people have so much bad opinions about Namecheap? I've been with them on both shared and VPS since I started doing things online back in like 2010, with few exeptions to try OVH and Leaseweb. I've never had any issues that could point towards they overselling their capacity, their support are 10/10 every single time I've needed them, instant support over chat or wait 30min for mail reply and I'm not even paying extra for it, prices are good. I have honestly nothing to complain about.
This.I don't get why people have so much bad opinions about Namecheap? I've been with them on both shared and VPS since I started doing things online back in like 2010, with few exeptions to try OVH and Leaseweb. I've never had any issues that could point towards they overselling their capacity, their support are 10/10 every single time I've needed them, instant support over chat or wait 30min for mail reply and I'm not even paying extra for it, prices are good. I have honestly nothing to complain about.
KnownHost have caused no problems and their service has been excellent. The only reason for me looking around is to cut costs.Pretty sure the OP didn't comment on them "causing problems". In fact, KnownHost is one of the more reliable hosting providers out there historically... WAY more-so than NameCheap is.
@Jon12345KnownHost have caused no problems and their service has been excellent. The only reason for me looking around is to cut costs.
Thanks for the response. I'm late to the party too, even though its my own post! Other priorities took over. Some things come to mind regarding the Hetzner setup.@Jon12345
Late to the party again but as per my previous reply
VPS (cheapest option) or Dedicated server at Hetzner - depending on your traffic and use
Centminmod set up on Almalinux
emails done via MX route
For the VPS option and emails you will be paying around 300 euros a year
That would be for MXRoutes $99 try-annualy deal 50GB storage and Hetzners CPX31 8GB Ram, 160GB HDD 20TB Bandwidth (Cost euros 15.72 per month plus snapshots and backups)
Its a no brainer to be honest
Let me know if you need help setting it up if you want to go that route
Take a look over at CentminMod forums as @eva2000 gives great support on fantastic LEMP Stack
Thanks for the response. I'm late to the party too, even though its my own post! Other priorities took over. Some things come to mind regarding the Hetzner setup.
1. I am confused by it! Are these still their own servers, but they just have so many? And if so, auctioning their own hosting space? Seems odd!
2. Centminmod set up on Almalinux - I've read about Centiminmod being fast, at least I think with eva2000 giving advice on what config to use on his forum. I worry it might be overload for me. I am not a linux expert, although I am a techie who does programming in JavaScript and React.
3. I cannot believe how cheap the packages seem to be compared to my existing provider! My current config is in my first post. I presume these packages are also faster and more up-to-date than my current setup?
4. I like things that are no brainer!
5. My current setup is using 120gb of storage. My forum has 1.6M posts, about 200K page views per month and I probably get 2.5x this level of traffic on a weekday, if that is relevant to needs. Today, on Saturday, I have 13 members and 472 guests on the site. Does this influence my needs a little?
6. Do you mean eva2000 provides a paid service for configuration?
7. How the hell do I migrate all my sites!!
8. I'm used to WHM and CPanel. What sort of interface would I use with Hetzner?
9. Are Hetzner an established well-known company?
Sorry for all the questions. Any answers to any of them are greatly appreciated. I'm just worried about messing up my whole site.
No, I'm not within their terms of service. Adult content, 372,000 members, 800-2000 online at any moment. All you need is a modern CPU (two 3.5ghz cores are enough), 8gb ram, a large page file and nvme drives and you don't have to spend a fortune to host a large website. 30 bucks is plenty. Don't use any internal mail server or web control panels (they waste resources), and use nginx. We've been up ad free since 2008 because we make it affordable.It's digitalocean?
Wow, never heard of them before! It is hard for me to know how popular certain webhosts are. So, what I've been doing is looking at the number of TrustPilot reviews to get a proxy for their popularity.
I know Google factors in website speed nowadays in their ranking algo, so a nice fast webhost would be nice. Not sure how fast my current webhost setup is in Googles eyes.
At the moment, my site says 13 members signed in and 410 guests. Does it make much difference to performance requirements if they are signed in vs guests? I ask because you mentioned just the number of members signed in.It says your forum has 1 member signed in. You can scale down.
Use a small cloud instance to run your php forum on nginx. $5 / month
Use a dedicated database instance for the database. $15 / month
Use Cloudflare R2 buckets for storing the big files. $5 / month (This free addon: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digitalpoint-app-for-cloudflare®.8750/ )
Hide your site behind cloudflare to get the best performance.
So that's 4 times less than what you're currently paying.
I'm slowly but surely coming around to your way of thinking. I've always had a managed VPS service in the past, but I am paying about $300 per year for the privilege with it built into part of my hosting fee. So, I took a look around at some YouTube videos, showing someone setting up a WordPress site on Vultr and also on Hetzner. It didn't seem too bad! Then I looked at the server prices of Vultr vs Hetzner, and unless I am reading it wrong, Vultr seemed about twice the price. Surely it can't be that big a difference?@Jon12345
Late to the party again but as per my previous reply
VPS (cheapest option) or Dedicated server at Hetzner - depending on your traffic and use
Centminmod set up on Almalinux
emails done via MX route
For the VPS option and emails you will be paying around 300 euros a year
That would be for MXRoutes $99 try-annualy deal 50GB storage and Hetzners CPX31 8GB Ram, 160GB HDD 20TB Bandwidth (Cost euros 15.72 per month plus snapshots and backups)
Its a no brainer to be honest
Let me know if you need help setting it up if you want to go that route
Take a look over at CentminMod forums as @eva2000 gives great support on fantastic LEMP Stack
At the moment, my site says 13 members signed in and 410 guests. Does it make much difference to performance requirements if they are signed in vs guests? I ask because you mentioned just the number of members signed in.
I also have 5 other sites on my KnownHost account, although they are low traffic.
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