Hosting advice?

Okay, my board has grown, and grown. It uses about twice the bandwidth of most boards it's size because we have lots of images, and we allow spam in some forums, and other reasons.

We recently hit the cealing with our current host, and we've had other issues with them as well. We need to move to a better, bigger host and I thought this would be the prefect place to ask for recommendations and suggestions.

[Mr Chad]

im paying $1,200 a year for my server its a dedicated managed server. (only good if you make good money)

50GB and 2.5TB of bandwidth Linux with plesk 8.0 installed.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Mr Chad

im paying $1,200 a year for my server its a dedicated managed server. (only good if you make good money)

50GB and 2.5TB of bandwidth Linux with plesk 8.0 installed.

too bad you have plesk.

[bashy]

I have only used plesk once, someone elses site...
So is there a problem with plesk?

I am currently using control panel (Site Manager)
and i fnd it boring lol.. cPanel is ok i did like using that 1...

Anyway..looks like westhost have an offer on atm
http://www.westhost.com/june-special-plan.html

BTW not sure if i get anything from reccomending but
just in case please mention me as every little helps....
bashys-place.com

Who are you with Chad?

Originally Posted by Mr Chad

im paying $1,200 a year for my server its a dedicated managed server. (only good if you make good money)

50GB and 2.5TB of bandwidth Linux with plesk 8.0 installed.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by bashy

I have only used plesk once, someone elses site...
So is there a problem with plesk?

I am currently using control panel (Site Manager)
and i fnd it boring lol.. cPanel is ok i did like using that 1...

Anyway..looks like westhost have an offer on atm
http://www.westhost.com/june-special-plan.html

BTW not sure if i get anything from reccomending but
just in case please mention me as every little helps....
bashys-place.com

Who are you with Chad?

Plesk, along with ensim, are horrible control panels. cPanel is the best in my expirences. Both in administrative control, and in user friendly features.

[bashy]

I am 90% sure from what i have been reading...
VDS and VPS are not the same....well only by a margin.....lol

Virtual Private server, can have many accounts
Virtual Dedicated Server, Only has upto 20 accounts

This is using westhost.com now hostgator.com only had about
4 -5 accounts per server, maybe smaller servers, i dont know but
it looks like the main differnce between the 2 is the amount of
accounts the server has, i would say virtually the same lol

I could be totally wrong but this is from what i can make out....

Originally Posted by Cromulent

Yep, I'm pretty sure its the same thing.

cheers for clarifying...i take it this is really down to personal preference?

Originally Posted by Zachery

Plesk, along with ensim, are horrible control panels. cPanel is the best in my expirences. Both in administrative control, and in user friendly features.

[Zachery]

Yes and No, I'd really suggest giving them all a try, but in all of my expirences cPanel has been much easier to deal with as well as much easier and more effective as an administration tool.

[Mr Chad]

Originally Posted by bashy

I have only used plesk once, someone elses site...
So is there a problem with plesk?

I am currently using control panel (Site Manager)
and i fnd it boring lol.. cPanel is ok i did like using that 1...

Anyway..looks like westhost have an offer on atm
http://www.westhost.com/june-special-plan.html

BTW not sure if i get anything from reccomending but
just in case please mention me as every little helps....
bashys-place.com

Who are you with Chad?

I was reading a PC magaizine and they had some kind of special offer. So i went to 1and1 and looked over it and bought the server.

I have had no major problems, their tech support is pretty bad for dedicated servers tho. They expect you know everything.

Uptime and speeds are great the plesk 8.0 lets you set up to 100 domains in your package.

They do not have my specific plan anymore but they have these. Yes im using a root server.

[Zachery]

Avoid 1&1 like the plauge!

[bashy]

Must admit, i just went through the sign up motions and they dont
take peeps outside the US or Canada, although they used to as 1 and 1
was my 1st hosting Co. They also dont take paypal for dedcated....

but, they have a dedicated server for $99, now that aint too bad if ya dont live outside the US/Canada

[COBRAws]

I think Im moving to Dedicated now Dual Opteron 246 SATA

Seems a good value. Anyone tried it? Webhost seems good too, but 150Gb transfer aint that much tho.