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[Palmer5555]

I run the website http://www.fxtradeblog.com (http://www.fxtradeblog.com/) that deals with a currency trading method. The main forum for this thread is located at a site called The Forex Factory. This thread has over 1,000,000 views and 10,000 plus posts. My intent is to start an advanced trading forum for those members who now how to trade the method and the posts would be specific to particular trade and no "How do I..." posts. The forum would act sort of like a chat room but there will be a need to post some charts. Either way, the number of members would be less than 100 at first but over time would grow....less than 1,000. Because of the small member size for the forum I don't need a mega-forum hosting to plan to handle vBull, I believe a shared hosting plan would do the trick. I've used the freeforums in the past but I want to have more of a 'professional feel' to the forum and more options for people that post.

So, for a shared hosting plan at less that $10 per month I've looked at SiteGround but was quickly overwhelmed with all the choices so I'm now looking for advice for a hosting plan. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[chaselafon]

I run the website http://www.fxtradeblog.com (http://www.fxtradeblog.com/) that deals with a currency trading method. The main forum for this thread is located at a site called The Forex Factory. This thread has over 1,000,000 views and 10,000 plus posts. My intent is to start an advanced trading forum for those members who now how to trade the method and the posts would be specific to particular trade and no "How do I..." posts. The forum would act sort of like a chat room but there will be a need to post some charts. Either way, the number of members would be less than 100 at first but over time would grow....less than 1,000. Because of the small member size for the forum I don't need a mega-forum hosting to plan to handle vBull, I believe a shared hosting plan would do the trick. I've used the freeforums in the past but I want to have more of a 'professional feel' to the forum and more options for people that post.

So, for a shared hosting plan at less that $10 per month I've looked at SiteGround but was quickly overwhelmed with all the choices so I'm now looking for advice for a hosting plan. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

I guess this wouldn't be that helpful, but I'm using SiteGround, and the support is excellent, I've experienced no down time, and they install vBulletin for you for free. :)

[Palmer5555]

Thanks chase. I was leaning towards them anyway based on what I've been reading. I'll give this another day or so and see how things look..

Chris