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Originally Posted by rin

I did 25GB traffic per day when my old, shared host kicked me.
Back then I probably had around 3000 members with 20.000 posts.

You did 25gb per day, with only 3,000 members and 20,000 post?? I do about 2 - 3 gigs a day, with 490,000 post and over 12,000 members. With only 3,000 members you were going through some serious bandwidth.

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To answer the question about the dedicated server, I have 3 vbulletin forums, and 4 wordpress sites on a Virtual private server with 1 gig of memory. The server gets around 9,000 uniques daily and somewhere around 3 million page views monthly. I still have a ways to go before I max out my VPS.

A lot of it depends on the graphics that your site uses. If you are hosting your own videos, picture galleries, big header images,,,,, Its impossible to tell you exactly when you will need a dedicated.

On average my forum has around 300 - 350 people on it. Usually its around 1/2 members and 1/2 guest. Around 3,800 members visit every 30 days, my forum averages around 1,500 - 2,100 post per day.

Out of that 1 gig of memory on my VPS, I have around 300 - 400 megs free. CPU usually stays around 150% - 200% of my allotment.

In can see getting an entry level dedicated server in another 4 - 6 months.