I just moved over to a Dual Xeon Box.. Same setup as Erwin's.
I was at Nocster for the last 6 months on a dedicated PIV 2.0 with 512mb Ram and 300 gigs bandwidth. I wasn't real happy with the latency/lag issues that started happening about 3 months into using them. At first they were great but the network errors and lag never seemed to die. At the same time my forums were growing like a weed and it all added up to be an aggrevating situation. Before that I had another dedicated at RS for about a year. I moved to Nocster from RS because I really wanted to have cPanel again. After they started offering it with the Dual Xeon SCSI box's, I couldn't pass it up. There is nothing I hate more than lag in my forums.
With this new dedicated Xeon, they FLY.. I can have over 240 people on at one time on one community, 60 on another and it doesn't so much as flinch! Loads never exceed .5 during this..
Puts a big smile on my face, though more of a dent in my wallet than I like.
I've got plenty of room if anyone needs really fast community hosting. I just have the box for my forums and a few friends sites, and might help out a few others if needed.
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