[The Finman]

Originally Posted by 5IVEO

Hi, im currently on godaddy.com and everything seems fine at the moment, but im wondering how much i should anticipate to pay for 4-5gb of bandwith a month?

Which seems to be best and cheapest when it comes to this, my board only has 70= members at present but im anticipating with time it will grow, it seems fine running on 2gb a month at the minute but im not sure if im getting the best deal at present.....sorry if this is posted in wrong section btw

Hi 5IVEO.

I just went through the biggest nightmare with our old hosting, and I went looking for a new one.

I went over to WebHostingTalk.com and read what people in the hosting industry had too say about the fellow web hosting peers.

I found a company that almost every hosting company over there had gushing reviews about KnowHost.com

Here see for yourself.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...ight=KnownHost

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search...archid=1349420

We signed up for a semi-managed VPS (Virtual Private Server) XL package and I could not be happier with them.

Here are their VPS packages.

http://www.knownhost.com/services/vps.html

For people that aren't familar with VPS accounts, it's pretty much the way it sounds as they partition off a section of the server for you and you alone. No more sharing your resources with illegal music & files as well as all the other script kiddie nonsense that goes on with most shared hosting.

With VPS you get root access to the server and usually a nice array of control panels that you can pick and choose from.

You can read a better explanation about VPS here.

http://www.knownhost.com/services/what-is-vps.html

But I love VPS as you get most of the benefits of a dedicated server without the dedicated price or headache.

the concept of VPS has been around for awhile but it's only been recently that the technology has been able to make it a true choice.

I know a lot of people discovering VPS are getting a medium (medium on a VPS is about 20 Gigs of disk space, with 250 Gigs of bandwidth) package, putting their site on it, repartioning the extra space and reselling it and basically paying for their site and extra money. I haven't done that myself, but who knows maybe in the future.