Does my host have right vesions of the software and do I need to move on?

[dennisuello]

I am currently hosted on splicehost.com and so far it's been very good. However I am having a problem with "Forbidden" messages randomly appearing on the forum and admin cp when loading new pages. I suspect my host is not up to task to handle my forum, as we've grown significantly over past couple months and that hen the problems began.


Here are some specs of the host and on my site. Do I need a dedicated solution? Or is any of the host software needs to be updated?

Disk usage - 897.60 Megabytes
SQL Disk usage - 130.75 Megabytes
Disk space available - 302.40 Megabytes
Bandwidth usage(current month) - 11627.16 Megabytes
Apache version - 1.3.34 (Unix)
PERL version - 5.8.7
PHP version - 4.3.11
MySQL version - 4.0.25-standard


Threads: 2,206
Posts: 29,346
Members: 460
Active Members: 256
Up to 50 active users simultaneously, but usually 20 or so.
I have Photopost Gallery, vBadvanced CMPS, vBspell and PhpAdsNew installed.

[encryption]

with 50 active users, you can still pull through on a shared account, though with all the mods, I'd play it safe and look for a decent semi-dedicated server

[Digital2]

Here are some specs of the host and on my site. Do I need a dedicated solution? Or is any of the host software needs to be updated?

Disk usage - 897.60 Megabytes
SQL Disk usage - 130.75 Megabytes
Disk space available - 302.40 Megabytes
Bandwidth usage(current month) - 11627.16 Megabytes
Apache version - 1.3.34 (Unix)
PERL version - 5.8.7
PHP version - 4.3.11
MySQL version - 4.0.25-standard


Threads: 2,206
Posts: 29,346
Members: 460
Active Members: 256
Up to 50 active users simultaneously, but usually 20 or so.
I have Photopost Gallery, vBadvanced CMPS, vBspell and PhpAdsNew installed.

A lot depends on the host. While I run more current versions of this software on my own box the versions you listed are not bad at all. They are all stable. The performance of your site depends more on cpu / memory usage. Figures that you may not have direct access to (Depending on your host). If your host has 300 sites crammed on a Dual 1.4 GHZ Xeon Server with 1GB of RAM then that could be an issue. If they are not oversellers you might be ok. It also depends on how many databases the server is running. Find a good VPS or low-end dedicated box. http://www.hostforweb.com might be a good place to look.