I don't think they differ in any way, the only thing is IMHO the much bigger price.
I don't know how much shamil wants..
How can i trust somebody, if even his "support & order
page isn't working as it should"? (sorry shamil
)
edit: i've found in
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-optimised-vps-hosting.12973/#post-169739 that it costs 630$/year ~ 34€/month
My first webhost was 5€ / month => 60€ / year and it worked fine for years for 2 small forums, and some joomla & typo3 pages)
As it started getting slow, i moved to the next package ( 15€/month)
IMHO the big packages as shamil is trying to sell, are EXTREMELY unnecessary for the avarege joe forum admin...
Who needs 50 gig in the first months (or even years???)
Some of my forums don't even need 2 gig space because people don't need attachments...
Even if people upload things, how fast will you get the 50 gig full?
People should start thinking about this things once there forum start to grow and not from the first day...
The second problem is the support.
The "small hosters" often don't have real access to the servers, they own only some machines where other are responsible for them. So once there's a problem, you have to contact your hoster, and he have to contact his hoster, which can take days...