What should I be hosting our site on?

[RichM]

Hi,

Our site: (Forum only)

Threads: 68,791
Posts: 654,702
Members: 22,005
Average members online: 30 (Per hour)
Average guests online: 60 (Per hour)
Database size: 450mb
Plugins: vBSEO

We had a dedicated Dual Xeon 2.8GHz machine with 2GB of RAM and 2x 120GB IDE hard drives for £89 a month with The Planet. It has been cancelled as I feel that it is an overkill. Hardly ever use more than 50GB of bandwidth a month and system resource usage is relatively low. I am now hosting the site on a shared hosting provider.

Do you think the site (mentioned above) would ideally require a dedicated server? (If so, what spec?) Shared hosting is much cheaper and a lot less hassle, but I'm not sure whether we risk being cut off for "excessive resource usage" with our shared hosting provider. I guess it's more active than your average site on a shared server, but it's still not THAT big.

Any suggestions/feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks. :)

- Rich

[choppers4life]

You could use a vps with at least 512 mb ram for your site

[eUKhost.com]

Yes, I think VPS will suit your needs looking at your requirements. You can upgrade as per your requirements when you require more resources.

[SNN]

You should take a look at VPSLink.com, here's some statistics from the command line in a Xen VPS:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2493.748
cache size : 6144 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6236.82
df -aH (shows what they provide in disk space.)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 21G 11G 8.2G 58% / (I have several files and clients.)
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
none 269M 0 269M 0% /dev/shm
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
/usr/tmpDSK 508M 18M 465M 4% /tmp
/tmp 508M 18M 465M 4% /var/tmp
This is a Link-4, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive, 1024 MB (1 gb) SWAP, cPanel/WHM or DirectAdmin are available (forgot third choice). For more information you can visit vpslink's site =]

[alemcherry]

Up to 90 users per hour. I would suggest only a good VPS. I have run even 200 users online with a VPS (even though it got bit slow).