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Need new host ASAP - Please Help! · **Released**: 03-17-2008

Hi,

I've been running vbulletin forums for over 3 years now. Our community has started to pick up some momentum these last 8 months. Unfortunately, our database keeps going down and we have to wait for our host to reset it, which sometimes takes a few hours (on the weekends, quite a bit longer). We've contacted our host numerous times on this, but there isn't much they can do. Their core competency is eCommerce (which is what we use them mostly for) and are a stricly Windows based host, and they were really just doing us a favor by installing MySQL and running vBulletin on their server for us.

So, I'm currently looking for a new host. We've been running vbulletin on Windows, which I think is a lot of our problem, and would like to move to a Linux based server running Apache. Any comments on this are more than welcome

What I'm looking for is:

a) It's a reliable company with 0% downtime and FAST servers
b) they're experience with vbulletin and Wordpress Blogs hosting (vb more importantly)
c) they have 24-7 phone tech support
c) we can pay them extra to do the move for us

I'm thinking either a Shared or VPS server. Thoughts? I'm not really that experienced in this area so I can use all the help I can get.

I saw the following thread:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21342

But with currently 356 posts ranging from 2001 - 2008, it's a bit difficult to tell which ones are the ones to look into.

We have a decent amount of traffic. No where near a big board though. I'd like to have a host that has plans that allow me plenty of room of expansion because we're a steadily growing community. I'm not sure if this matters, but we currently use Plesk.

So far, for the month of March, there was 10.37 GB of traffic. For the month of Feb., there was 9.13GB. Looking through all of my previous months, it looks like we're growing by an average of between .5 - .8 GB a month. I'd let you know all of my stats on my forums, but my board is down (and has been since about 10am CST yesterday).

amnesia623 · #12 03-24-2008, 01:28 PM

try hostnine.com, I ran vbulletin there with no problems, they will move your site, and they have in-house 24 hr support.

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