DRE
Well-known member
This is my review of xFhost which is a new hosting service that specializes in optimizing Xenforo websites.
Xenforo forum software is the most secure, fastest and intuitive forum software out. It was created by the same dudes who made vBulletin 3 forum software. My site www.8thos.com was originally a vBulletin 4 forum hosted by a vBulletin hosting service. Sometime after switching over to Xenforo I began looking for a host that specialized in Xenforo optimization. After trying out several hosts, I learned that the price I paid for them was over-priced for the average performance I was getting, even on some of their best 'semi-dedicated' packages. I was also getting tired of hearing of complaints from UK users saying the site was too slow.
After a year of searching I saw that xFShowcase was being hosted by xFHost (not anymore though). I was not impressed at first until a member from my own site said that it was much faster than my site. I couldn't tell the difference so I did some speed tests, the results of which you can see here. Even though the speed tests showed that xFShowcase (when it was hosted with xFHost) had only a slight edge over my site, I was still not convinced because at the time, xFShowcase had nowhere near as much activity as my site. My site sometimes has around 200 users online, most of which are visitors so I contacted xFhost to see if they would be able to handle my site at a low cost compared to my previous hosts.
xFhost is still very new and I wanted to know more about the company. I learned that xFHost was created by Mike Edge who has over 12 years of experience as a Linux admin for other companies. I learned that before he started xFhost, he installed and setup Xenforo on setups such as a VPS with litespeed and memcache for a company he worked for called Hudson Valley Host. I am now using the 'Growing Community' package with dedicated IP and memcache port. It's been almost a month now and xFhost.me so far is faster with more memory and better support at a reasonable price than all my previous hosting sites of whose services I used that were both shared and semi-dedicated. I have noticed a major speed difference when creating styles and uninstalling and installing addons and only a slight speed difference when posting. The biggest difference is that my UK posters are saying my site is now faster than the UK forums that they post on.
I give xFHost.me 5 out of 5 stars.
Xenforo forum software is the most secure, fastest and intuitive forum software out. It was created by the same dudes who made vBulletin 3 forum software. My site www.8thos.com was originally a vBulletin 4 forum hosted by a vBulletin hosting service. Sometime after switching over to Xenforo I began looking for a host that specialized in Xenforo optimization. After trying out several hosts, I learned that the price I paid for them was over-priced for the average performance I was getting, even on some of their best 'semi-dedicated' packages. I was also getting tired of hearing of complaints from UK users saying the site was too slow.
After a year of searching I saw that xFShowcase was being hosted by xFHost (not anymore though). I was not impressed at first until a member from my own site said that it was much faster than my site. I couldn't tell the difference so I did some speed tests, the results of which you can see here. Even though the speed tests showed that xFShowcase (when it was hosted with xFHost) had only a slight edge over my site, I was still not convinced because at the time, xFShowcase had nowhere near as much activity as my site. My site sometimes has around 200 users online, most of which are visitors so I contacted xFhost to see if they would be able to handle my site at a low cost compared to my previous hosts.
xFhost is still very new and I wanted to know more about the company. I learned that xFHost was created by Mike Edge who has over 12 years of experience as a Linux admin for other companies. I learned that before he started xFhost, he installed and setup Xenforo on setups such as a VPS with litespeed and memcache for a company he worked for called Hudson Valley Host. I am now using the 'Growing Community' package with dedicated IP and memcache port. It's been almost a month now and xFhost.me so far is faster with more memory and better support at a reasonable price than all my previous hosting sites of whose services I used that were both shared and semi-dedicated. I have noticed a major speed difference when creating styles and uninstalling and installing addons and only a slight speed difference when posting. The biggest difference is that my UK posters are saying my site is now faster than the UK forums that they post on.
I give xFHost.me 5 out of 5 stars.
