Hosting / VPS / Shared

[MetalMilitia]

Alright - Apparently the hosting forums are no more? Guess I never noticed :confused:

At what point did some of you look into vps or dedicated?

Currently Active Users: 54 (9 members and 45 guests)
My forums database is around 650 megs - ~4500 members, 18,000+ threads - 280,000+ posts.

Shared hosts I know limit the size of the database (at least in my experience they have)

On average theres 4,000-8,000 unique hits and like 10-20,000 page loads. Most months we transfer somewhere around 100-200 gigs between the main site and forums. One of my key concerns is "spikes". I mean you can look in my signature and see the site content - when a major "disaster" happens, we've spiked as high as 80,000 unique hits in a 24 hour period - which the shared hosting didn't take kindly to. It crashed a few times... got my account closed a few times for stealing resources...etc.

"Unlimited" - my a$$ :)

So I just wanted to get some general feedback for some of the mid-level sites out there, get a feel for when you may have decided to switch, or what the turning point was.

Thanks in advance for any responses :)
-MM-

[DeanLag]

I've been in the same situation as you. Got asked to leave by my hosting company 3 times already and each time, our forums would be down for 72~ ish hours.
We started on a shared hosting environment, moved to VPS and then lately to dedicated.
Although my knowledge about dedicated servers is pretty limited, I've decided to go ahead with it and learn a bit. I've also paid a server management company for 1 month to help me get it up. Took me about 3 days to optimise and such.

However, I've recently stumbled across this: http://www.globalgold.co.uk/dedicated/vbulletin_custom_hosting.html . They're pretty knowledgeable about vBulletin and even if you use too much CPU resources, they'll talk to you before kicking you out. I've had a couple of talks with one of their sales representative and it was really tempting to cancel my dedicated and go with them.

Good luck!

[Medtech]

i started out with shared, soon after 6,000 members and my database activity was throwing other sites offline, my host locked me out, so i got a dedicated, that will never happen to me again, now i control the server.

[medicalforums]

i started out with shared, soon after 6,000 members and my database activity was throwing other sites offline, my host locked me out, so i got a dedicated, that will never happen to me again, now i control the server.

How much per month are you paying for the dedicated? which hosting company you use?

Thanks

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