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[torontotim]

I know this is like asking what motor oil is 'best' on a motorcycle forum, but there you go.

I'm looking to move away from VPS. I have had my forum on Linode for a looooong time and have no time or inclination to keep the server up to date etc and pay the high cost I am to host there.

I'm looking to move my 19 year old forum to a 'Xenforo' specific hosting service where I don't need to sweat keeping the server updated, PHP version upgrades etc.

Is there a 'list' somewhere or any highly recommended services for a ~150GB or so sized site that has relatively low traffic.

I may turn the site down soon, but am 11 months away from the 20th anniversary of launching it. I wouldn't mind keeping it around till then but paying $100 / month to host it at Linode is a bit bothersome. If it were $20 a month, I'd just leave it up indefinitely so the million posts of content were still 'out there'.

 

[beerForo]

to a 'Xenforo' specific hosting service where I don't need to sweat keeping the server updated, PHP version upgrades etc.

Have you seen they offer their own cloud hosting?

 

[Chris D]

I, too, recommend our Cloud hosting, but, alas, their concern appears to be price and a suitable plan on XenForo Cloud would cost more than they're paying for Linode.

Feel free to Contact us though if you'd like to check us out.

 

[Rusty Snippets]

I always recommend Knownhost. Been with them for years and never a problem, and support is fast.

 

[ES Dev Team]

I'm a big fan of hetzner lately for my server hosting clients. Product to cost ratio is excellent. However there's lots of sticky things to cut one's hands on with their backend administration, so i would only recommend it to someone else if they're willing to get very geeky.

 

[spk100]

Another recommendation for Knownhost.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I know this is like asking what motor oil is 'best' on a motorcycle forum, but there you go.

I'm looking to move away from VPS. I have had my forum on Linode for a looooong time and have no time or inclination to keep the server up to date etc and pay the high cost I am to host there.

I'm looking to move my 19 year old forum to a 'Xenforo' specific hosting service where I don't need to sweat keeping the server updated, PHP version upgrades etc.

Is there a 'list' somewhere or any highly recommended services for a ~150GB or so sized site that has relatively low traffic.

I may turn the site down soon, but am 11 months away from the 20th anniversary of launching it. I wouldn't mind keeping it around till then but paying $100 / month to host it at Linode is a bit bothersome. If it were $20 a month, I'd just leave it up indefinitely so the million posts of content were still 'out there'.

I would suggest @MattW who is a member here and knows xenForo. Very fast and reliable hosting

 

[XFR00z0]

I may turn the site down soon, but am 11 months away from the 20th anniversary of launching it.

True dedication/passion during forum era..

If it were $20 a month, I'd just leave it up indefinitely so the million posts of content were still 'out there'.

We shifted few site(s), to shared services.. Not concerned about the revenue those make, but since at time, those were the best.

 

[Rene_V]

I'm looking to move my 19 year old forum to a 'Xenforo' specific hosting service where I don't need to sweat keeping the server updated, PHP version upgrades etc.

In that case I would recommend XenForo's cloud hosting too. You won't have to deal with any of the aforementioned things, but concentrate on managing your forum.

 

[smallwheels]

In that case I would recommend XenForo's cloud hosting too. You won't have to deal with any of the aforementioned things, but concentrate on managing your forum.

Advice given in complete ignorance of the problem and what is requested as well as in ignorance that what you recommend has already been ruled out makes pretty bad advice overall....

I wouldn't mind keeping it around till then but paying $100 / month to host it at Linode is a bit bothersome. If it were $20 a month, I'd just leave it up indefinitely so the million posts of content were still 'out there'.

a ~150GB or so sized site that has relatively low traffic.

a suitable plan on XenForo Cloud would cost more than they're paying for Linode.

This seems understandable:

I'm looking to move away from VPS. I have had my forum on Linode for a looooong time and have no time or inclination to keep the server up to date etc and pay the high cost I am to host there.

I'm looking to move my 19 year old forum to a 'Xenforo' specific hosting service where I don't need to sweat keeping the server updated, PHP version upgrades etc.

If it were $20 a month, I'd just leave it up indefinitely so the million posts of content were still 'out there'.

As it seems to be rather about keeping the thing online cheaply than performance or growth: Did you consider shared hosting? No bothering about the OS, just about XF itself. I am on shared hosting for exactly the reasons of price and not having to deal with the OS. Obviously you lack options in comparison to VPS - thins like enhanced search, redis cache or a separate firewall are not possible in most cases. Also it might need a bit of digging to find an offering with enough space for your 150GB forum. On the other hand: I am using a smaller hosting company and pay 17€/month for an account with 150GB space in total, SSH access and enough resources and power to run my forum. As @ES Dev Team mentioned Hetzner may be worth looking.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Did you consider shared hosting? No bothering about the OS, just about XF itself. I am on shared hosting for exactly the reasons of price and not having to deal with the OS. Obviously you lack options in comparison to VPS - thins like enhanced search, redis cache or a separate firewall are not possible in most cases.

This is why I mentioned mattw - it is shared hosting but but has Elastic Search and Redis plus excellent support and performance. I moved from a VPS at Nimbus and it was immdiately faster and allprevious issues were solved by @MattW

 

[Alvin63]

I pay £200 a year for shared hosting with Hostinger and had no issues. Been there four or five years. Their initial charges are quite well discounted for the first two years and then go up a bit. So next two years could be a lot cheaper than £200.

However if you want separate email as well (good idea) there is the cost of email as well.

If you already have a separate email provider that keeps it simple.

If going from VPS to shared hosting you would probably need to make some tweaks for site security (bearing in mind I am no expert in this and just from what I’ve learned from others). The Cloudflare app on here helps make that easy.

 

[Alvin63]

I’d recommend the business hosting plan £2.99 a month (it will go up after a couple of years but still reasonable)

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[Faust]

All my projects are hosted on OVH. My forums are on shared hosting and one bigger project on VPS. Still affordable .

 

[smallwheels]

All my projects are hosted on OVH.

I have two issues with OVH, both closely tied to the fact that they are considered to be a cheap provider (in opposite to "worth the price"):

1.) there is a continuous stream of malicious traffic coming from them an they do have a pretty bad reputation
2.) in fact they acted so unprofessionally and on the cheap in the past that one of their data centers burned down completely and two others were damaged by the fire back in 2021 so that 3,6 million webpages were vanished with no backup.

Clearly not a company that i would trust.

OVH-Großbrand hat gravierende Folgen

(Bild: gemeinfrei) Der Großbrand im OVH-Rechenzentrum in Straßburg verursachte große Aufmerksamkeit und mitunter verheerende Folgen für Kunden des Cloud-Hosters. So verschwanden insgesamt 3,6 Millionen Websites durch den Brand aus dem Netz.

www.storage-insider.de

Großbrand bei OVH sorgt für europaweite Ausfälle

Ein Großbrand hat verheerende Schäden im Straßburger Rechenzentrums-Cluster von OVH Cloud angerichtet. Die Evaluierung der Schäden dauert noch an, ihre Behebung wird wohl mehrere Wochen in Anspruch nehmen.

www.connect-professional.de

 

[Faust]

I have two issues with OVH, both closely tied to the fact that they are considered to be a cheap provider (in opposite to "worth the price"):

1.) there is a continuous stream of malicious traffic coming from them an they do have a pretty bad reputation
2.) in fact they acted so unprofessionally and on the cheap in the past that one of their data centers burned down completely and two others were damaged by the fire back in 2021 so that 3,6 million webpages were vanished with no backup.

Clearly not a company that i would trust.

OVH-Großbrand hat gravierende Folgen

(Bild: gemeinfrei) Der Großbrand im OVH-Rechenzentrum in Straßburg verursachte große Aufmerksamkeit und mitunter verheerende Folgen für Kunden des Cloud-Hosters. So verschwanden insgesamt 3,6 Millionen Websites durch den Brand aus dem Netz.

www.storage-insider.de

Großbrand bei OVH sorgt für europaweite Ausfälle

Ein Großbrand hat verheerende Schäden im Straßburger Rechenzentrums-Cluster von OVH Cloud angerichtet. Die Evaluierung der Schäden dauert noch an, ihre Behebung wird wohl mehrere Wochen in Anspruch nehmen.

www.connect-professional.de

Bad things can happen sadly. I have never had any issues with them. I’ve been with them for 10+ years. Pretty decent.

As said, things like that can happen to each company.

 

[smallwheels]

As said, things like that can happen to each company.

In general: sure. However: This was an epic f***up that was not a case of "**** happens everywhere" but simply caused by systematic greed and unprofessionalism. Even worse than the backup-issue that Strato suffered from in 2001. There are loads of other providers that don't suffer from this kind of behavior - so I rather choose those.

 

[Faust]

In general: sure. However: This was an epic f*up that was not a case of "** happens everywhere" but simply caused by systematic greed and unprofessionalism. Even worse than the backup-issue that Strato suffered from in 2001. There are loads of other providers that don't suffer from this kind of behavior - so I rather choose those.

Well, I’ll stick to them for now. Since I am a hobbyist and their services meets my budget and expectations.

I am hosting with them 12 websites, moving to other providers will be time consuming and waste of money.

 

[torontotim]

I've decided to give self-hosting from home a try. I have 3Gb/3Gb fiber internet to my desk and a spare M4 Mac Mini.

Installing the various bits (MAMP, No-IP etc.) and will see if I can make that work. Probably should have done it a couple of years ago and saved myself a bunch of Linode cost.

Linode is running me USD$65 monthly. I'd need to reduce that cost significantly to bother moving, so I'm going to give $0 cost a shot.

 

[RaptureForums]

Another happy KnownHost customer here. They respond to my tickets within minutes and they fix my tickets that I start within 10-15 minutes.

I've tried Liquid Web, HiVelocity, etc. KnownHost is the best. They didn't oversell me either.