Shared or VPS hosting ?
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mrGTB
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I have the same view, I've never understood why some are in such a rush to use much more expensive VPS site hosting when it's not needed for a least a year (minimum), probably much longer these days looking at the dire slow rate most forums are generally growing at. Most will end-up closing down their forums due to lack of actively before they get anywhere near requiring VPS hosting.
I don't see the point in paying all that money for VPS hosting each month (at the very start), when they don't have neither the traffic or forum activity taking place to warrant even paying it. I mean, do you go pay British Gas £100 a quarter for only using £40 worth of gas?
Sometimes I think forum owners just want to have that "Big Boy" status thing, be able to say they use VPS hosting to look all Pro, they want to get away from the bad stigma that's usually attached with using Shared Hosting and your forum not being taken seriously because of it.
Rich
Active member
Shared Hosting uses fast servers and unlimited space in most cases. Bluehost works for my small forum and its fast. When it slows down I just call and they fix the problem fast. VPS is good if you want to run software that a shared host wont allow. Other than that it may even be slower in speed than your shared server.
Jesepi
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I prefer VPS hosting just because I like the control it comes with. There is nothing on the system unless I put it there. You can get some pretty cheap VPS accounts if you know where to look. Under $10/month in some cases. I have used intovps and burstnet before, both worked fine. Not as reliable as linode, but for the money they were great.
rgp
New member
If you don´t mind to mention the characteristics of the hosting provider service you are using, I will appreciate the information, since I am starting with my XF and currently looks very slow without any load of users, so I will try to upgrade for a better response . Thanks in advance.
Ghan_04
Active member
Shared providers tend to vary quite a bit in performance. It might be helpful to look around somewhere like Web Hosting Talk (http://www.webhostingtalk.com) to find reviews on hosts to gather more information.
mrGTB
Well-known member
You sure about the memory, as it says on their main page you only get 128mb for $15 year.
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/tinyvz-15year-128mb-openvz-vps-in-kansas-city/
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/tinyvz-15year-128mb-openvz-vps-in-kansas-city/
mikeambrose3
Member
Both of my forums combined have about 6,000 members and 20,000 posts in all. I use a managed VPS.
Dual Xeon 8 Core w/ Hyper-threading (x16)
1GB SLR RAM
100GB RAID-10 Disk Space
3TB Outbound BW (Unmetered INBound)
I use CentOS 6, Apache and cPanel/WHM with Virtuozzo. My servers RAM stays around 300mb out of 1024mb. CPU stays under 3% all time.
Dual Xeon 8 Core w/ Hyper-threading (x16)
1GB SLR RAM
100GB RAID-10 Disk Space
3TB Outbound BW (Unmetered INBound)
I use CentOS 6, Apache and cPanel/WHM with Virtuozzo. My servers RAM stays around 300mb out of 1024mb. CPU stays under 3% all time.
mikeambrose3
Member
It is WiredTree. They've been great for me so far, about a month ago I got them. The price ($50.00/m) is a little high just to host some forums, but it's well worth it if you want to maintain a good server/forum for your people. I host two forums for game servers, soon to be three, never had a problem with load times and whatnot.
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