Any good VPS for vbulletin site?
 

Hello

Can you suggest me any best VPS for vbulletin cms?
which requirements should I go with?

Thanks

The requirements totally depends on the amount of visitors and what kind of plugins you are running. Memory is usually the biggest factor and typically, 1-2GB of memory should be enough.

Why do you need to be on a VPS, why do you want to be on a VPS?

Even if you have a low budget, it's not hard to find a cheap good working VPS these days for almost the same amount of money. Personally, I would even go for a VPS when I need to host a low traffic site, just because it's safer and I have much more control over my resources and installation. On a shared website host, I can not guarantee the safety of the website.

If the user however doesn't care about the resources and/or restrictions and the safety aspects of a shared webhost vs a VPS, then a shared webhost would be fine.

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IF I have a low budget, I probably do not have the time or expertise to spend managing the VPS, which is HUGE portion of running your own server.

Are you going to do everything by hand? PHP/MySQL updates? Are you going to have a control panel? Who is going to manage your DNS? You, your webhost?
How are you going to secure your server?
Are you okay with working on the command line?
Can you deal with an unmanaged vps?


VPS's, especially unmanaged ones, without control panels (only way its going to be _cheap_) are not safe or secure.

I'm going to update hosting, just curious a bit about 2 GB memory then site can load how many users online all the time?

Of course you need experience to set everything up and secure the environment.

I disagree with your statement that an unmanaged VPS is not safe or secure, this totally depends on who is going to manage it, even with a low budget. Now you make it seem that no matter what, it's unsafe and/or insecure.

That's not easy to say, this depends on your configuration and resources.

So, we have to step back and realize that the vast majorirty of vBulletin Administrators are not system administrators, or Linux gurus. You can't even assume that they know what SSH or the shell is, let alone how to do things in it.

More often than not, if someone is asking what the best X is at anything, such as webhosting, they're probably already in over their heads.

Its up to us to guide them to what they need. We should NOT sugar coat that running a server and administrating it properly can be a full time job.

Which is why my questions were important.

I can add to that, what is your budget? What is your traffic? How many users are online on average? ARe you running a lot of addons? Which addons?

Most people think they need a VPS because they heard it was cool, and that's the limit of their knowledge. In most cases, you DON'T need it.