Managed or fully managed?

I consider a site "big" when it's pushing a a half million or more posts, 25,000 users or more than 25,000 unique visitors a day, but everyone has a different definition and based on your niche, big may be much smaller or much larger. But for the purpose of this point big refers to hosting needs, not site rank or scale.

In terms of hosting needs, your site is small enough (by usage stats) do be fine on most any server. I would recommend trying Softlayer.com as they provide a great product and at a fair price. One of their basic servers 9single layer, dual core) with upgraded memory (2+ gb) should work fine. With these specs you should have no problem growing substantially before you have to make any major moves.

However, softlayer is unmanaged which means you have to handle things yourself should something break. If you don't have the time or ability to manage a server then you will need to seek out a much different provider which tends to cost a whole lot more.

theplanet.com - Dedicated and Managed. Check out the Mid Level Servers if you are looking for dedicated. You'll be able to get somethin nice for $250 a month.

Been using these guys for years. They are great. :D

thats a small board in my opinion. I get that amount of threads/posts in 24hours average. So its ok that you use godaddy as a host. Later on you will understand that godaddy is not good for big vbulletin boards.

LMAO!!! Okay... my site isn't all that big. ;) Haha. But it is doing well and progressing nicely so I am proud of it. :)

So for anyone who wants to know... a site of "this size" does well on Go-Daddy, but it sounds like the bigger ones might not do so well. Good to know. Thanks everyone!

PS... hope my boards get that big!!!

We use liquidweb and are pretty happy. Sure, stuff happens, but they've got 24/7 support and they've always resolved any problems we've had quickly.

I second that,

see you around "neighbour" haha