VB host advice needed

[joanne862]

Hi

I'm currently using UBB6 (www.wdisneyw.com), and have had a bad experience trying to move it to a new server with Communitech. They said the script messed up the server & suspended my account!

I'm now looking at changing to VBulletin, but need to find a suitable host. I don't want to have to go through being suspended again!

After reading lots of great posts about Ventures Online, I'm almost certain I'll try them.
My boards currently have just over 1500 members, and use around 10GB bandwidth a month. Never having used VB before I'm unsure if the amount of bandwidth is similar. I'm looking at the VO V500 plan, with 20GB a month. Do you think that would be enough, and has enough capacity to cope with my boards?

Thanks in advance,

Joanne :confused:

[nuno]

hi joanne :)
yes, 20GB will be more than enough for now, vB has gzip compression built in, so, you will save a lot with vB :)

[aaronx88]

OK, I made that switch 9 months ago.

Here are the few things you need to consider :-

Bandwidth - Should be about the same, thus the 20GB allowance will be enough.

CPU resources - Host dont like UBB, Vbulletin is preferred. Nowadays, it is hard to find host that do UBB except hosting4less.com.

MySQL connections - For VenturesOnline, they only allows 40 connections. If your UBB has like 100 online users, this WILL NOT be enough for your Vbulletin to work!!!

Backend Administration - Vbulletin is much better in my opinion.

The only thing you have to worry about is how many concurrent users you have on your forum. For UBB, they take up CPU resources, whereas Vbulletin take up MySQL connections.

[Goldfinger]

I was suggest you use the V650 plan which a semi dedicated server plan. The semi-dedicated servers have less clients on them so it also for your site to be faster and allows you to have more connections to mysql. :).