inexpensive hosting for 100 users online maximum

[milaszewski]

I'm looking for inexpensive hosting for 100 users online maximum.

What could you recommend?

[choppers4life]

need more info. Any hacks etc?

[milaszewski]

could be a chat (Cyb ChatBox) with 15 people chatting at the same time, and there is a script showing 5 random pictures from albums on the main site

[choppers4life]

ok a shout box might not be allowed on some hosts make sure you check their tos. Whats your budget?

[milaszewski]

I pay around $120 per year for http://gallowayhosting.com/ which gives me a lot of space, bandwidth, but they have 4.5% CPU limit on a Quad Core machine. My account with only 5-10 users gets blocked frequently and every time I need to ask them to unlock it.

I wish I could have less space and badwidth, but more CPU limit for a similar price.

[Jedito]

The shoutbox may it be the reason, try disabling it and you'll see the difference. Shoutbox tend to be resources hog, for that reason are forbidden by many providers.

[milaszewski]

shoutbox gives around 1-1.5% increase with the overall CPU rate at around 3-4% so it's not that bad - refresh rate is set to 30 sec.
4.5% CPU limit is ridiculous - hostgator has 25%

[deej290]

Not sure if it's available in the states, but you should look at www.one.com

For their most expensive plan you'd be looking at $85 a year (subject to exchange rate fluctuations) and I've heard some very good stuff about them.

[PeopleCore]

You get what you pay for. If you want cheap you will be wasting time and money trying to get your server to work correctly if at all. Shared servers are most always oversold. VPS server are the way to go for vbulletin. Managed VPS will provide more value than cheap people can even comprehend.