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Hi there,

Recently, my website suffered an attack which could have been prevented, had my host taken better security measures.

I'm on shared hosting right now.

Some stats of my forum are:

About 600 registered members
20,000 posts
2,000 threads
Average users online: about 35-40 (registered users and guests combined)
About 400-500 posts per day
About 40 new threads per day
About 80 active users online per day
We use about 30gb bandwidth a month.

I don't think we're big enough to move off of shared hosting yet, but I could be wrong. We're definitely not big enough for a dedicated and I don't think we're big enough for a VPS, but you guys may think differently.

My forums aren't slow or anything. I'm apprehensive on going with shared hosting as the security threat that happened a few days ago occured because of poor security measures taken by my host; another client on their server executed a malicious script which spread across the entire server and injected malicious Javascript which redirected to a spyware site into virtually index.html and index.php on my site, and presumably across every other site on the server. However, if this is the most cost effective solution for my needs, the host needs to have high security.

Luckily my board is teen oriented and the security issue occured while most of them were at school, and only a few users were online, so we were able to save a lot of face by getting it cleared up quickly before many people noticed/were infected. If other people were infected, it would have been disastrous.

Any suggestions? I'm willing to use a cheap VPS.

FYI; don't suggest HostGator please.

I've looked into them and they don't meet my needs.
One of the specific things I need is that they allow "chat scripts" to be used (vBShout is classified as a "chat script" by hostgator") as I use vBshout and it is very popular on my board - and I would rather not get rid of it.

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Old 02-23-2008, 07:51 PM
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bluehost.com is what I use. Cheap and reliable.
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I have no complaints with HostMonster.com even I have received 300usd just in referrals and customer service? always there
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Mochahost is real reliable
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i have a bluehost account - I can share with you for free
non-adult site only
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lunarpages is very good
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FYI I switched hosts months ago

i'm on knownhost now
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Wizz-hosts try
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He just responds that he already is on new hosting and you suggest another?
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Do people check the dates before they post?
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