Need recommendation on hosters

[lifesourcerec]

Looking for a good hoster for vB. Currently have 1,600 users. 81 simutaniously, and need about 75GB bandwidth/month (used 62 GB's this month). Anyone have any recommendations? With imhosted.com now, but currently having database/space problems with the server I'm currently on and too much downtime.

[Joshs]

Looking for a good hoster for vB. Currently have 1,600 users. 81 simutaniously, and need about 75GB bandwidth/month (used 62 GB's this month). Anyone have any recommendations? With imhosted.com now, but currently having database/space problems with the server I'm currently on and too much downtime.

By the looks of it you may want to look into a semi-dedicated solution. Is that an average of 81 users on or is that at peak?

[lifesourcerec]

By the looks of it you may want to look into a semi-dedicated solution. Is that an average of 81 users on or is that at peak?
That's the peak (record). Maybe 40-50 at once on average.

[Shining Arcanine]

I'm currently hosted with A Small Orange:

http://www.asmallorange.com/

Support is great, the servers are fast and they do not kick people off who are using too many resources, instead, they move them to a faster server. The server I'm on is considered full and server loads are rarely above 1.00, the server is well tuned (Zend Optimizer, MMCache, MySQL query caching, the works) and handles vBulletin 3.0.0 well. On good days at peak hours I have about 20 people online and server loads are still below 1.00 (I have the vB3 MicroStatus hack installed for admins so I check can server loads often).

They give SSH access on request and you can make your plan a reseller plan (WHM) for an additonal $5 a month. There are no setup fees.

If you sign up, tell them I sent you.

[TheMusicMan]

As Shining Arcanine I am with A Small Orange too... and I totally echo what he says about them... except his last para... ;) Tell them I sent ya!.... hehe

Nahhhh... just kiddin about that last para - Shining Arcanine posted 1st... :)l

[uzitalk]

I'll add my vote for A Small Orange (http://www.asmallorange.com). In relocating my forums, the primary considerations were a seamless transition and minimum downtime. With Tim Dorr's personal assistance (at no extra charge), we were able to make the move very quickly.

In addition to the outstanding service we've received, the server loads are much lower now, and the forums are noticeably faster. This is what hosting is supposed to be like.

Two thumbs up for A Small Orange (http://www.asmallorange.com).

[cbiweb]

Wow, I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread! I've been wondering the past couple days myself where I could get good hosting with little worry. Looks like I found out. Three glowing reviews works for me. Thanks guys!


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*gasp* - Their forums are not vB!!! :eek:
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[lifesourcerec]

I'm currently hosted with A Small Orange:

http://www.asmallorange.com/

Support is great, the servers are fast and they do not kick people off who are using too many resources, instead, they move them to a faster server. The server I'm on is considered full and server loads are rarely above 1.00, the server is well tuned (Zend Optimizer, MMCache, MySQL query caching, the works) and handles vBulletin 3.0.0 well. On good days at peak hours I have about 20 people online and server loads are still below 1.00 (I have the vB3 MicroStatus hack installed for admins so I check can server loads often).

They give SSH access on request and you can make your plan a reseller plan (WHM) for an additonal $5 a month. There are no setup fees.

If you sign up, tell them I sent you.
What is the uptime. That's my MAIN problem. Too much down time from hosters who claim and guarentee 99.9% and site only up 75% of the time.

[Shining Arcanine]

From my experience I'd say about 99% only because administration wasn't 24/7 a few weeks ago (Timdorr was sleeping when the server went down). Now that they have an outside firm doing monitoring (they check to see if it the server is down and if it is, they submit a reboot request), I think it should be 99.9%.

Edit: By the way, I'm not sure if they make a guarentee about uptime, you might want to ask that on their forums. I do know that you are entitled to 5% of the how much you pay per a month for every day that they are down if some major outage was to occur.

[SaN-DeeP]

www.mish-hosting.com (http://www.mish-hosting.com)

i am running on them.
nice support by admin. and 0% downtime till day.

[AstralGypsy]

I have not even purchased vB yet simply because I want to make sure I can deploy the forum successfully. My current provider does have a good track record with uptime, however, to upgrade my site for mySQL it seems like a hefty chunck of money for an idea that 4 guys are putting together.

I will check out A Small Orange and thank you for the insight. My lack of understanding SQL may hurt me even in the pre-sales aspects of shoping. If anyone could provide a link(s) of just the basic knowledge necessary to inquire intelligently about mySQL I would be grateful.

Our site is just on pizza boxes so to speak at the moment so trying to estimate bandwidth, storage and other factors are only guesses at this point. Is A Small Orange shared plan upgradeable for future growth and necessary resource uasges?

Thanks.

[Shining Arcanine]

Switching plans on A Small Orange is free so the answer is yes.

A Small Orange doesn't like to kick people off their servers so if you are using too many resources they would move you to a faster server.

[lifesourcerec]

Switching plans on A Small Orange is free so the answer is yes.

A Small Orange doesn't like to kick people off their servers so if you are using too many resources they would move you to a faster server.
How is the customer service. A lot of places "claim" 24/7 customer service, but it usually takes you 24 hours to get a response. I sent mail to asmallorange asking them questions about their services and have yet to get a response and it's been over 24 hours.

[TheMusicMan]

How is the customer service. A lot of places "claim" 24/7 customer service, but it usually takes you 24 hours to get a response. I sent mail to asmallorange asking them questions about their services and have yet to get a response and it's been over 24 hours.
Hi lifesourcec,

I have to say that ASO Customer service is simply A1... as an example, I asked for some files and a MySQL database to be moved from one of my accounts to another yesterday and it was done immediately...:) I mean, literally... within 5 mnutes...

Can't fault them so far.

If you sign up, tell 'em either me or Shining Arcanine sent ya.. one of us will then get a free month's hosting.

[Shining Arcanine]

It is 24/7 on the support forums, probably about 16/7 by phone (timdorr has to sleep sometime), 24/7 by support ticket and 24/7 by email.

[lifesourcerec]

Ok.. signing up in a few. My current hoster is too problematic.

[lifesourcerec]

I'm currently hosted with A Small Orange:

http://www.asmallorange.com/

Support is great, the servers are fast and they do not kick people off who are using too many resources, instead, they move them to a faster server. The server I'm on is considered full and server loads are rarely above 1.00, the server is well tuned (Zend Optimizer, MMCache, MySQL query caching, the works) and handles vBulletin 3.0.0 well. On good days at peak hours I have about 20 people online and server loads are still below 1.00 (I have the vB3 MicroStatus hack installed for admins so I check can server loads often).

They give SSH access on request and you can make your plan a reseller plan (WHM) for an additonal $5 a month. There are no setup fees.

If you sign up, tell them I sent you.
Well, my server load reach a little under 10 at times. We have 1,506 members and counting. The max at once is 85. The average is 40-50. I need a dependable hoster. Tired of downtime.

[Shining Arcanine]

Well, my server load reach a little under 10 at times. We have 1,506 members and counting. The max at once is 85. The average is 40-50. I need a dependable hoster. Tired of downtime.
Judging by this thread:

http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=196

You signed up, I'm sure you'll be happy at A Small Orange. :)

[lifesourcerec]

I'm currently hosted with A Small Orange:

http://www.asmallorange.com/

Support is great, the servers are fast and they do not kick people off who are using too many resources, instead, they move them to a faster server. The server I'm on is considered full and server loads are rarely above 1.00, the server is well tuned (Zend Optimizer, MMCache, MySQL query caching, the works) and handles vBulletin 3.0.0 well. On good days at peak hours I have about 20 people online and server loads are still below 1.00 (I have the vB3 MicroStatus hack installed for admins so I check can server loads often).

They give SSH access on request and you can make your plan a reseller plan (WHM) for an additonal $5 a month. There are no setup fees.

If you sign up, tell them I sent you.
There now. GREAT customer service, but all I've been getting lately is database errors which = more down time. I think I'm just got to save up and get a dedicated server somewhere. Can't afford all of the downtime I'm getting. Pitiful when you can't find a dependable hoster.

[Shining Arcanine]

On A Small Orange? Contact timdorr and ask him to up the max connections limit, he has done it at my request before.

By the way, when I was new, I had some DB errors until he upped the maximum connections limit.