Where is your Xenforo Hosted?

[Ghan_04]

Rackspace is really overpriced for what you get. I can't speak to their support because I've never used it, but I have had experience with Slicehost, which is the source where Rackspace got their cloud stuff going. Rackspace is likely to be way out of a $20 budget, and again, massively overpriced at all tiers when compared to other reputable and high quality hosting companies like Liquid Web/Storm on Demand, Linode, and WiredTree.

 

[Brent W]

Works for me. 2GB web server connected to a 2GB database server. 10 xenforo sites. Then a 1GB web server connected to the 2GB database server for my vBulletin site. Still less than a dedicated server from softlayer or liquidweb and still provides plenty of room for growth.

But whatever, just responding to the original posters question. Not sure where $20 budget nonsense came from.

For what its worth, LoneStarStangs.com is hosted on a 2GB web server with rackspace connected to a 512MB database server and runs perfectly fine. Not my site but a buddies who actually works for RackSpace. He uses a 256MB slave server to make database backups nightly.

Rackspace is pretty rocking in my opinion.

 

[Ghan_04]

> just responding to the original posters question

Ah, ok. I was going off of the guy asking for advice above.
I'm not saying that Rackspace does not work as a solution, but based on the pricing from their website, you can have just as good a setup somewhere else for much less.

2 x 2 GB VPSes from Rackspace with 1600 GB bandwidth = $463.20/month (pricing here: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/)
2 x 2 GB VPSes from Linode with 1600 GB bandwidth = $160.00/month (pricing here: http://www.linode.com/)
2 x 2 GB VPSes from Storm on Demand with 1600 GB bandwidth = $180.00/month (pricing here: https://www.stormondemand.com/pricing/)

None of these is with any support other than basic hardware/network/etc. No OS support.

 

[Brent W]

> just responding to the original posters question

Ah, ok. I was going off of the guy asking for advice above.
I'm not saying that Rackspace does not work as a solution, but based on the pricing from their website, you can have just as good a setup somewhere else for much less.

2 x 2 GB VPSes from Rackspace with 1600 GB bandwidth = $463.20/month (pricing here: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/)
2 x 2 GB VPSes from Linode with 1600 GB bandwidth = $160.00/month (pricing here: http://www.linode.com/)
2 x 2 GB VPSes from Storm on Demand with 1600 GB bandwidth = $180.00/month (pricing here: https://www.stormondemand.com/pricing/)

None of these is with any support other than basic hardware/network/etc. No OS support.

That isn't accurate because you only pay for bandwidth you use on RackSpace. I come no where near 1600GB. If I hit 100GB this month it'll be amazing. My Database server doesn't use any bandwidth as well, since it is all local traffic.

Plus you pay a bit for the stability of the infrastructure too.

 

[Ghan_04]

I was using 1600 GB as a benchmark since Linode includes it all by default. Storm does not, and they price their bandwidth lower than Rackspace does as well. So yeah, with Linode you might pay for bandwidth you don't use (though it is still cheaper anyway), but with Storm you would not be.

 

[Brent W]

To each their own. I am comfortable with a few extra bucks a month with the infrastructure that rackspace has along with their history. I am sure the other alternatives work well for others but in the entire 9 years I have been running any of my websites, 1600GB is just a fluff sales pitch. Never have come close to that.

 

[x3sphere]

I have a Dual Xeon 5620 and 24GB RAM server at Softlayer. Definitely overkill for a relatively small forum but I run other stuff on it that needs the power.