Looking for a new host.

I am looking for a new host for my vBulletin forums. I would like one that is fast, reliable, and with good customer/technical support. SSH access is a HUGE Plus.
Gonna have a few other things so I need at least 5 gigs of web space, and a nice chunk of bandwidth wouldn't hurt. I have about 50 active members and my site is growing. My budget is 10-15 bucks a month. I can maybe spring to $20 if it looks well worth it.

Can you all reccommend me a good host(s) that might work for me?

Thanks in advance.

[da420]

Originally Posted by Stifler

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asking for SSH access unjailed is something you wont find on a shared hosting account.. your best off going for a managed VPS. I suggest jaguarpc.com VPS (very affordable, and well managed). A shared host most likely will shut you down for using up too many resources on the server..

Thank you. I in fact did end up going with them and will be working on moving my site over there tommorow.

[dan35]

With $65/month you also get a whole dedicated server.
eg.
AMD Sempron 2500+
(Savvis Datacenter - Fort Worth, TX)
1GB DDR RAM
80GB Hard Drive
Private VLAN
5 IP Addresses (usable)
1000GB Premium Bandwidth

[Zachery]

Bad move, you got a econonmy class processor, think celeron. Everything else is ok though.

[dan35]

That price's really a bargain for that server. If you're looking for a single core Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 64, you should raise ur budget at least to $100 (or a dual core to $150).

Semprons outperform Celerons, but a 2.8 GHz P4 will out perform a Sempron (say 2800+). Think of an old Sempron as an Athlon XP, as they are basically the same chip. New socket 754 semprons are athlon64 base with some cache turned off.
Semprons make pretty good entry level servers, better than Celerons. However, if you need good performance go for a P4 2.8 or an Athlon 64.

[Zachery]

754 are anything but new, the socket was dead when it started, and what good is lots of horse power without the ability to do anything. Cache is possibly the most vital part of a processor esp when doing things for mysql etc.

a Semperon server is a waste.

[JD45]

Might not be what you're looking for, but figured I'd throw my hat in to the circle.

http://www.littlebluebike.com/hosting.html

If you're interested, I can probably get you the first month free to see if you like it or not...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just take a look at the webpage of the manufactor of the processors.

AMD: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...30_118,00.html
Athlon/Sempron are desktop processors, not designed to power a server.
Server processor = Opteron

Intel: http://www.intel.com/products/proces...uct_Processors
Itanium 2, most Xeon's, and high-end Pentium-4/D are designed as server processor.

[Mastar]

Give em a try: http://anonx.net/

[camuca]

<a href="http://www.siteground.com" target="_blank">www.siteground.com</a> is pretty good and cheap. Check out their features

[dan35]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Just take a look at the webpage of the manufactor of the processors.

AMD: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...30_118,00.html
Athlon/Sempron are desktop processors, not designed to power a server.
Server processor = Opteron

Intel: http://www.intel.com/products/proces...uct_Processors
Itanium 2, most Xeon's, and high-end Pentium-4/D are designed as server processor.

That's very nice, and money is not a problem

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