Looking for a new host, need some help

[Joey805]

Hey guys,

Well it looks as though it's time to move to a new hosting company.

Here are the specs of my site:

Hard drive space needed: 4 gigs

vbulletin members: 8000

Monthly bandwidth 30 - 40 gigs


Can anyone give me an honest suggestions of some hosts to look at? I checked out hostgator and their shared packages are too small and dedicated is way to big and expensive.

maybe I need semidedicated or VPS?

Looking for linux - php,mysql,cpanel

Any advice would be great.

Thanks for your help,

Joey

[StrongMotive]

You could go for a hostgator reseller, you for sure do not need a VPS or dedi.

[Joey805]

You could go for a hostgator reseller, you for sure do not need a VPS or dedi.


Ive been speaking with hostgator and the only problem is, they said their shared servers have a 25 connection limit on apache. At any one given time on my forum, I have anywhere from 5 - 30 members logged in and also a bunch of search engines crawling around.

I have a feeling I would reach that connection limit the first day and people would be getting dropped off.

Any other suggestions? I would love to go with hostgator but my next step up from shared would be a fully dedicated server at $174 a month, which we cannot afford and I also thing we don't need something that big.

[SNN]

How many users & guests do you have online at one time? At peak times?

HG used to have semi-dedicated...I wonder where that went...

[eUKhost.com]

Hey guys,

Well it looks as though it's time to move to a new hosting company.

Here are the specs of my site:

Hard drive space needed: 4 gigs

vbulletin members: 8000

Monthly bandwidth 30 - 40 gigs


Can anyone give me an honest suggestions of some hosts to look at? I checked out hostgator and their shared packages are too small and dedicated is way to big and expensive.

maybe I need semidedicated or VPS?

Looking for linux - php,mysql,cpanel

Any advice would be great.

Thanks for your help,

Joey

Looking at you requirements, even a shared hosting package will be best for you. You can upgrade to a VPS or semi-dedicated as per you requirements when your site grows.

[Joey805]

How many users & guests do you have online at one time? At peak times?

HG used to have semi-dedicated...I wonder where that went...


Well if I count guests and members which also includes search engines, I usually have anywhere from 5-60 under my vbulletin active users box.

I just got off the phone with Hostgator, they have dedicated server, which is unmanaged for $74 a month. The problem with this is I don't know linux well enough to manage the server meaning, patches, security, package installed, ect.

Here are the stats of this dedicated server:

HostGator Dedicated - $75 a month
1.7ghz Celeron
80 gigs storage, 1,500 gigs of bandwidth
1 gig of Ram to yourself
5 IP addresses
Full root access

[SNN]

Did they mention what os it is?
if it's redhat you can probably do:
aptitude get apt
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
That will update packages from redhat and the OS itself
You could probably run that as a cron.

Though there is peer support forums you can get support on.

[VAYC]

Or go with www.timihosting.com (http://www.timihosting.com) and save the headache