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What host do you guys use for big boards?
Developer Last Online: Nov 2014
Hey guys,
I wanna know what host you guys use on your big boards. Do you guys still use shared hosting or dedicated? Please reply. Thanks. Show Your Support
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System administration is a full time job, if you think a real system admin that you're paying top dollar for is just sitting around scanning for virirus and waiting for things to happen you're sorely mistaken. |
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At the same time, you must also appreciate that there are entities out there who are charging the best rates for sub-standard services. Therefore, some of these opinions may be justified. I learned my lesson long ago and decided to spend my time learning stuff. And I don't regret it. |
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I was not insinuating that you sat around doing nothing. What I was trying to say was if the end user (people like me) do not mess around with there server settings then there is not much that will go wrong as long as then get a server management team that does what they are suppose to do. Paying hundreds of dollars for server management support is not required. Sometimes when you pay that much you are not getting any better support then what some of the lower priced companies give you. There are some companies that charge too much to do the same things as the lower priced company does. What it all boils down to is if you are paying $25 a month for server management support you get what you pay for. Which is most likely someone doing nothing or very little and getting paid for it. The person that is looking for a company to manage there server has to do there research. When I started out I tried two companies that charged between $25 and $35 and did not know all the crap they stated they knew in their write-ups or they hired help that had little experience. The reason I know this is because I know a little about servers and when I was asking questions about some issues the answers they gave me were incorrect and they were trying to baffle me with crap. Right now I have a great server management company and if my server goes down at 3 am on Christmas day, I know I have a support team that will be right on it. Sorry I said that you sit around doing nothing. I worded that statement wrong. I know that a good team keeps everything up to date and does more then checking for viruses. I was just trying to say that you don?t have to pay over $100 for a good server management company. |
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When I think big board now adays I think 3-5 servers. |
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Sorry I did not mean this to turn into a debate. I was simply suggesting to one person that it is cheaper in the long run to purchase your own server rather then rent or lease a server and that is a fact. I am not going to debate this anymore.
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While it may be initially cheaper, in the long run more than likely it wouldn't be. |
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I have a dedicated box at ASmallOrange.com. They are pretty darn good, and there prices are decent. They are growing pretty quickly, and I have noticed there support slowing dramatically. All the conversation about SoftLayer is intriguing.
Dedicated is the way to go. I have 7000 users and over a million posts, and I am not stressing my server at all. |
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I have a dedicated server with TotalChoiceHosting.com -- they're pretty good.
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We use softlayer as well. Handles our forum fine, we're planning on picking up a second server shortly.
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I have a half-cabinet at a large co-lo facility. I am currently running seven servers on my network, four of which are directly related to the site's operation. the others are a firewall, backup server and mail server. I could do everything I am doing on two or three servers, but I like spreading things out.
Computing power wasn't the determining factor for me, when it came to making a hosting decision. My primary concern was bandwidth. I currently have a 10mbs pipe and I am using about 85% of it, at peak times. Of the two, computing power is a much cheaper commodity for a webhost to offer than bandwidth. In a colocated facility, I can contract the bandwidth directly from a big telecom provider and skip the middleman markup. I am averaging more than 60GB of data transfer a day, at this point. If I were paying for my bandwidth by the GB, I would be living in a refrigerator box. Eric |
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