My dedi server might be overkill. What do you think?

[Bigforumfan]

Right now I have a forum with approx 18,000 registered users, 1,000,000 posts and usually several hundred concurrent users online.

I use no more than 100 gigs of band per month.

My dedicated server (elite) with Hostgator gives me 2500 bandwidth, 4 gigs RAM, etc. It runs great I just wonder if I couldn't be paying a lot less per month for a VPS and still get the same performance.

Could a site the size of mine run just as well on a much cheaper VPS?

[royo]

Maybe on a premium VPS, but if you're looking at those really cheap plans and think you can make a deal you might be in for a surprise.

[eUKhost.com]

Right now I have a forum with approx 18,000 registered users, 1,000,000 posts and usually several hundred concurrent users online.

I use no more than 100 gigs of band per month.

My dedicated server (elite) with Hostgator gives me 2500 bandwidth, 4 gigs RAM, etc. It runs great I just wonder if I couldn't be paying a lot less per month for a VPS and still get the same performance.

Could a site the size of mine run just as well on a much cheaper VPS?

Bandwidth won't be an issue. If you can specify the exact no. of concurent users online, we can suggest you most suited hosting plan for your forum.

[nexialys]

you can ask for a personalised hosting at hostgator, having a discussion with one of the techy would help, they can give a lot of information about your situation... they know vBulletin very well, their support forum is a vB and they have staff able to configure it properly too...

[chick]

I have the same Elite server and run only a few sites due to one of them being a heavy forum/video upload site.