Hosting Recomendation - Maybe

[technopuzzle]

Hi,

I have a client who uses a VB forum. She used to be on one of those cheap shared linux providers and had horrible forum response, slowness, timeouts, etc.

She has since switched to a dedicated server (at the advice of the sites previous webmaster) and at a rate of around $200.00 a month. I have now taken over and think that a dedicated server may be too much just to run her forum and Joomla! website and shop.

Not to mention that she is now having money problems since she is paying $200.00 a month for the dedicated server, plus my fee's, plus the fee's of 2 other support personnel. I've lowered my fee's as much as I can and this is a client that I really like and would like to keep.

Can someone give some advice and opinions on this please. Here forum stats are:

Threads: 18,034
Posts: 130,671
Members: 3,174
Active Members: 462
Record online users: 58

If there are some other stats or information that I can give that would help with the advice and opinions please let me know.

Does this client really need a dedicated server? Or could she use a VPS, reseller or shared hosting account on a reliable hosting provider?

TIA!
Roger

[Hayk]

I think good shared is really enough for her site (Hostgator for example). Though if she wants to spend money, move site to a VPS as maximum Try hostforweb for VPS. They have good support and very reliable service (price $39.95 - $99.95)

[Freezerator]

Where are you located?

I also think she can find something much cheaper but what is still good and reliable.

[royo]

Good shared and HostGator don't really belong in the same sentence. If you are having problems on a dedicated server, going down will generally not stop your problems, since you are running more than just a forum on it. The problem might be bad choice of hardware and no optimizations done to Apache/MySQL.

[Hayk]

Good shared and HostGator don't really belong in the same sentence.

There are many opinions

If you are having problems on a dedicated server, going down will generally not stop your problems, since you are running more than just a forum on it. The problem might be bad choice of hardware and no optimizations done to Apache/MySQL.

As I understand, they have not any problem with dedicated server, they just want to have a host cheaper

[royo]

I don't know where I've read slow in that whole thing . Still, I'd go for a VPS under the 100$ mark, since it gives you room to grow and you won't have to keep moving from shared to VPS and then back to a dedicated when you grow.

[Hayk]

Ok, I' sorry. They have problems.

Not to mention that she is now having money problems since she is paying $200.00 a month for the dedicated server, plus my fee's, plus the fee's of 2 other support personnel. I've lowered my fee's as much as I can and this is a client that I really like and would like to keep.

Still, I'd go for a VPS under the 100$ mark, since it gives you room to grow and you won't have to keep moving from shared to VPS and then back to a dedicated when you grow.

Agree

[beishe8]

I think good shared is really enough for her site (Hostgator for example).

The forum and nothing else on that site.
I have setup Gallery,a backup of Gallery and received an email that I'm over my 50K inodes limit.

Though if she wants to spend money, move site to a VPS as maximum Try hostforweb for VPS. They have good support and very reliable service (price $39.95 - $99.95)

Do they have mysql 5 ?
On their shared hosting I saw

MYSQL Server 4.1.X

[Hayk]

The forum and nothing else on that site.
I have setup Gallery,a backup of Gallery and received an email that I'm over my 50K inodes limit.

That's why I will suggest VPS

Do they have mysql 5 ?
On their shared hosting I saw

Yes. They are installing it for you. MySQL version 5.0.51a-community

[artherd]

A very good shared, or very good VPS should likely be sufficient. Choose wisely.