$100/month or less. 13k members... Help!

[literatestylish]

Currently on media temples DV servers and they SUCK! Forum has been running very slow. We pay $100 for 1GB memory, 50GB disk, 1.5Tb xfer. Any hosting out there that can beat this?

Emailed media temple and they said our database Is too big and we use too much MYSQL.

[KevinL]

Wow.. there are a ton of providers that could handle this with no issues.

I would start by checking out http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ go over some reviews and see what will work best for your website(s)

[Zachery]

How big is your database?

[literatestylish]

Wow.. there are a ton of providers that could handle this with no issues.

I would start by checking out http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ go over some reviews and see what will work best for your website(s)

Do you have any suggestions?

I tried WebHostingTalk and did not like it! A lot of hosting owners pimping their own service. Makes it hard to know who to trust/believe.

[literatestylish]

How big is your database?

It has 9 years of posts/tables on it. Forum stats:

120,000 threads
2,000,000 posts
13,905 members
Approx 300-400 active at any one time. Were a football forum, so on game days that active number goes up to 1,500 and our forum sometimes crashes.

[Zachery]

That didn't actually answer the question though

[literatestylish]

That didn't actually answer the question though

Sorry, are you looking for the GB's of the actual database? I'm not sure how to get that. If you can tell me how, I'll let you know!

[rajubd]

Currently on media temples DV servers and they SUCK! Forum has been running very slow. We pay $100 for 1GB memory, 50GB disk, 1.5Tb xfer. Any hosting out there that can beat this?

Emailed media temple and they said our database Is too big and we use too much MYSQL.

1gb ram for 100$ to much .. search for better host. you are in vps? you can get 4-5 gb ram with that price..

[DrewryMedia]

Currently on media temples DV servers and they SUCK! Forum has been running very slow. We pay $100 for 1GB memory, 50GB disk, 1.5Tb xfer. Any hosting out there that can beat this?

Emailed media temple and they said our database Is too big and we use too much MYSQL.

you are paying way too much for your server!

[3dint]

Currently on media temples DV servers and they SUCK! Forum has been running very slow. We pay $100 for 1GB memory, 50GB disk, 1.5Tb xfer. Any hosting out there that can beat this?

Emailed media temple and they said our database Is too big and we use too much MYSQL.

We had a dedicated server with media temple and it was a crawl! We had the same problem with MYSQL as well.

Switched to liquid web and have not had a problem since. They do start at around $175 though, but you do get a managed server(that you have almost complete control on) with the best tech support I have seen.

It has 9 years of posts/tables on it. Forum stats:

120,000 threads
2,000,000 posts
13,905 members
Approx 300-400 active at any one time. Were a football forum, so on game days that active number goes up to 1,500 and our forum sometimes crashes.

Our stats are:
Threads 116,615 Posts 1,280,651 Members 59,404 Active Members 1,574, 300-400 members at a time.

Liquid Web handles it no problem.

[DrewryMedia]

1gb ram for 100$ to much .. search for better host. you are in vps? you can get 4-5 gb ram with that price..

Have you looked at other hosting providers yet?

[Shamil.]

Hello,

I'd suggest you've look over at WebHostingTalk to find a hosting business to go with.

Shamil

[TomJames]

I've found Linode to be brilliant (and very affordable), though they are unmanaged so you have to be prepared to install and configure what you need. Their library (http://library.linode.com/) is very useful though if you want a guide to the most common tasks and their forums are helpful to.

But again if you want something managed they probably aren't for you. Either way best of luck, and whoever you go with ensure you read some reviews and so on first!


Edit: Removed affiliate URL (which was fully disclosed in the post) as did not realise it was not allowed, apologies .