You might look into a VPS as the next stepping stone. All the bennefits and control of a server at a more affordable price. I have had one for 3 years and love it. I don't get tons of trafic but I have about 50 crons that parse websites (with approval) for live game data and I could never do that on shared.
I thought about it but my forum is getting the hit for the last couple months. Registrations , post , thread numbers , daily hits increased a lot and i dont want to change a server or a hosting for another year at least.
Exactly i never had dedicated before therefore i am not sure which one to go with. My main concern is server must be affordable and easy to use (probably have cpanel installed) because i already spend a lot of hours by dealing with the board and i dont want to spend extra hour for managing the server.
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Originally Posted by mrcrx
I just had the same problem. I got kicked out of asmallorange. My site had tomany people online at one time. I was using a shared server. they wanted way to much for a dedicated server. I found the most affordable place to be 1and1.com . been on them for 12 days right now. so far so good. speed is very good and so far they have everything I need. rob
I am pretty happy with asmallorange but their dedicated plans are all sold out and they are a little bit expensive for me.