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Im just looking for opinions where can I get the best server for my money $249 a month that will give me great customer service and allow for my website to grow.

[Curtis H.]

Originally Posted by mathias

Im just looking for opinions where can I get the best server for my money $249 a month that will give me great customer service and allow for my website to grow.

Managed or fully managed?

[Ted S]

I consider a site "big" when it's pushing a a half million or more posts, 25,000 users or more than 25,000 unique visitors a day, but everyone has a different definition and based on your niche, big may be much smaller or much larger. But for the purpose of this point big refers to hosting needs, not site rank or scale.

In terms of hosting needs, your site is small enough (by usage stats) do be fine on most any server. I would recommend trying Softlayer.com as they provide a great product and at a fair price. One of their basic servers 9single layer, dual core) with upgraded memory (2+ gb) should work fine. With these specs you should have no problem growing substantially before you have to make any major moves.

However, softlayer is unmanaged which means you have to handle things yourself should something break. If you don't have the time or ability to manage a server then you will need to seek out a much different provider which tends to cost a whole lot more.

[Matt_270581]

theplanet.com - Dedicated and Managed. Check out the Mid Level Servers if you are looking for dedicated. You'll be able to get somethin nice for $250 a month.

Been using these guys for years. They are great.

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by AFemaleProdigy

Hmm... well I am not sure what you consider to be "big" (what DO you consider big... out of curiosity... I am no vB veteran or anything), but here is my "biggest" one at this time...

http://www.womens-health.com/boards

Threads: 2,139, Posts: 6,676, Members: 3,424, Active Members: 594 and I think the most ever online at once was something like 125.

We are averaging around 4,000 unique visitors per day and somewhere between 20,000Mb and 44,000Mb of bandwidth per month. So somewhere around 1,000 Mb per day give or take and we aren't having any problems with it.

thats a small board in my opinion. I get that amount of threads/posts in 24hours average. So its ok that you use godaddy as a host. Later on you will understand that godaddy is not good for big vbulletin boards.

[AFemaleProdigy]

LMAO!!! Okay... my site isn't all that big. Haha. But it is doing well and progressing nicely so I am proud of it.

So for anyone who wants to know... a site of "this size" does well on Go-Daddy, but it sounds like the bigger ones might not do so well. Good to know. Thanks everyone!

PS... hope my boards get that big!!!

[ricknlida]

We use liquidweb and are pretty happy. Sure, stuff happens, but they've got 24/7 support and they've always resolved any problems we've had quickly.

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by ricknlida

We use liquidweb and are pretty happy. Sure, stuff happens, but they've got 24/7 support and they've always resolved any problems we've had quickly.

I second that,

see you around "neighbour" haha