Self Hosted vs Cloud

[Kestryll]

I have a forum that has been around since 2002, it is very large and currently running vB 6. I have been looking at converting to Xenforo for most of the standard reasons and mainly looking at self hosted after a bad experience trying vB cloud hosting. At the time I explained our size and traffic, got a quote but after migrating the traffic was 'more than they expected' and the cost trebled.

However looking a bit more at the cloud options on Xenforo it looks like the traffic allowance is fairly substantial and may not be the issue it was with vB.
We've slowed down a fair bit but at our peak we were doing 2TB of traffic monthly, and I have no clue what the pageview count was as our host at the time measured in bandwidth as did vB. I'm seeing the Business plan having 4 million pageviews which seems like it would be enough when we get back to our old levels.

My questions are am I correct in my guesstimate that 4m pageviews will cover the equivalent of 2TB of bandwidth and this is less for Xenforo official and more 'community knowledge' how different is conversion moving to cloud from conversion on self hosting?

And how much if any storage for member and user files does the cloud server come with and what access does it allow to the files? I currently store the image files for banner ads on my server and change them as sponsors come and go.

Thanks for the info and help!

 

[Paul B]

It's not really possible to equate bandwidth with page views.
However, the page views are not a hard limit - as long as the server can cope then it's fine.

Storage for the Business plan is 240 GB - that covers the forum files, database, and uploaded content.
Additional blocks of 100 GB can be added as needed, for an additional charge.

There is no server access at all with Cloud, including FTP or an admin panel.

You will though have access to the XF ACP where you can install add-ons and styles.
Logos and other images can be uploaded using the built in asset manager functionality, and there is a unique file manager feature for Cloud installations which allows the following file types to be uploaded: .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .svg .