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Originally Posted by Videx

No, I just checked and WHB doesn't offer VPS in the UK.

You should be backing up your db daily! There's no "commitment" involved once you have it set up. A cron script compresses it in the morning, and my desktop task scheduler FTPs it to home at noon. Once a month I go in and delete all but the last couple and at the same time use Cpanel to manually do a full site backup.

The folly of depending on the host came home a couple years ago when we were suspended. Although we were quickly reinstated, I learned my lesson. If we had to move to a new host at that point, all the backups in the world stored at the host would have been totally useless.

Yeah I know I *should* but I couldn't do a set up like you at the moment anyway as I'm relying on my GF lappy for internet access at the moment, apart from my phone that is.

Look mate I got a quote for a fully managed VPS either 1GB of Ram or 2Gb. Seems like a good quote to me but still not sure on spec. No one is giving a definitive (not that I can see) as to what I actually need.

I plan on swapping Sphinx search in and getting some memcache going so I'm thinking I'll need two GB. My current host reckoned for my forum I would need a bare minimum of 1.

The quotes you got, where they for unmanaged?