Looking for a very good host

[xyzmary2001]

I really do need your help - and trust me, I have read the messages here. They end up confusing me even more. In the beginning I manage to choose hostrocket, and now I am not that sure that it would be best for me.

To be more specific, since 4 month I want to have a forum anime. I am lawyer, but I am very childish, I love to write and publish stories and I have a lot of friends that love anime (Japanese cartoons)

Everything was looking fine, I found Servage, I paid for a 14 month subscription, then I discovered I didn't like any of the free softwares for forums, and I searched more. I found vBulletin, and I asked Servage if they run vBulletin in appropriate conditions.

As you may expect, they said "of course we do". I bought the soft - and I love it - and I made the site and the forum. The "surprise" is that my forum is more down than up, I receive tons of errors and when I try to make them solve the damn situation they keep on saying that the forum is looking stable and fine. Right, and I couldn't even invite ppl on it because of the huge number of errors (around 200 daily).

Now, hostrocket specifies something about the name of domain that can be registered / used there. Mine is www.anime-empire.ro and I don't know if I can transfer it.

Also, I have no clue about linux, and they have linux servers. Do I have to use Linux to run my forum?

The last problem would be the move itself, my database has 550 mega, and I don't know how should I do to transfer everything.

I tried to submit a ticket with them and I received no answer for an entire week.

As for what I understand by good host, I am interested to have more than 50 Giga space on server, to have unlimited bandwich, reasonable traffic limits (I expect to have around 2-3.000 members in the next year), around 100 e-mails, 10-15 databases, possibility to have at least 3 sub domains, and, more than anything else, to be more UP than DOWN and to have speed, I am dying with servage.


I would be more than grateful if you could help me, I have worked a lot at this forum and those last weeks have been an agony for me with all these persistent errors.

[royo]

I hope you've read my post here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275762 to understand that there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. Do you have a budget per month?

[Hayk]

Right, and I couldn't even invite ppl on it because of the huge number of errors (around 200 daily).

What kind of errors, any example?


Now, hostrocket specifies something about the name of domain that can be registered / used there. Mine is www.anime-empire.ro (http://www.anime-empire.ro) and I don't know if I can transfer it.

You can transfer any domain you want.


Also, I have no clue about linux, and they have linux servers. Do I have to use Linux to run my forum?

Yes, you can use linux for your forum.


The last problem would be the move itself, my database has 550 mega, and I don't know how should I do to transfer everything.

Read official documentation of vBulletin here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/moving_servers


As for what I understand by good host, I am interested to have more than 50 Giga space on server, to have unlimited bandwich, reasonable traffic limits (I expect to have around 2-3.000 members in the next year), around 100 e-mails, 10-15 databases, possibility to have at least 3 sub domains, and, more than anything else, to be more UP than DOWN and to have speed, I am dying with servage.


You should look for very good shared hosting or any VPS one I think. You can look at www.webhostingtalk.com (http://www.webhostingtalk.com):)

[xyzmary2001]

Thank you very much for the answers.

The type of error is:

Database error in vBulletin :

Invalid SQL:
SELECT varname, value, datatype FROM setting;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Sunday, June 29th 2008 @ 08:22:41 AM
Error Date : Sunday, June 29th 2008 @ 08:24:24 AM
Script : http://anime-empire.ro/forum/misc.php?show=ccbmessages
Referrer : http://anime-empire.ro/forum/index.php
IP Address : 77.81.25.63
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :
I have around 10.000 errors like than per month, and the Servage's support team still pretend the forum is stable... Drives me crazy.

I was very interested to use hostrocket, I heard very good things about them. The problem is I don't know linux and if I will have to install Linux instead of Windows I would actually have a problem.

I don't have enough money to afford dedicated server. I can spend around 10 dollars / month (because I prefer to pay many months in advance than have this problem every month.)

I wrote to host rocket and this is the answer:

Our shared servers due come with SSH access, however must of our utilities are web
based and not much knowledge of linux is needed (unless you want a dedicated
server).

Each shared hosting account is monitored for resource usage. As far as throughput
each account is limited to 1MB/s upstream.

I still didn't understand if I have to have Linux on my computer and if that 1 Mega/s upstream would be enough for a forum of around 1500 members (in the future, now there are less than 500).

I would really be very happy to use hostrocket, and I really need to move it soon. I lost many members. I had 100 posts / day and now I have less than 20.

What should I do now, the Linux is my major problem... I don't want to be forced to start using another operating sistem. I cannot access or use my account / forum / ftp on hostrocket from Windows?
Thank you very much again.

[gigapros]

I hope you've read my post here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275762 to understand that there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. Do you have a budget per month?

I second this. By the time you figure out this fact, it's too late...and you will be already out to search for a new host again. :o