I'm currently on a dedicated server. But our needs have changed and am thinking of moving back to a standard hosting account.

I've not looked at web hosts in years. Who can handle large vBulletin sites and keep good performance?

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Is it a good idea to run vBulletin on just199?
Any comments of them?

I plan on starting a community on v bulletin I have no idea where or what type of server I would need.

Size would be from 2-5 thousand members with about a max of 5-600 members online at one time on average.

I honestly have no clue what type of hosting I would need to be able to support a community this size.

I know I need to be free of errors and lag, the main reason I'm looking into doing this myself was the slow, laggy and constant errors from the old site.

Any help will be appreciated,

Chris

Dear All,

I have been a user of VB for many years now and one of my forums (for a Car Club) has been queitly doing its job for years with no issues.

http://www.granada-and-scorpio-online.com/forums/

Is still sitting on Version 2.3.7 - its never caused any issues and as you will see if you take a look has served that particular community well over the past 10 years.

Recently the host that provides the server hosting for that domain upgraded the databases and now the forum doesnt work properly (people cannot reply to posts). I have been told thats correct and we need to move the forum on. I understand that but it puts us in a bit of a tricky situation.


So my question is this:

Is it possible to migrate the DB and its content to a newer version and then upgrade the forums to a newer version - I am happy to pay what it takes to get this done if its beyond my technical abilities? This probably includes paying for a new version and paying for someone to do the work?

Can anyone help me on what direction to take or indeed offer a service to sort it out?


Many thanks

Phil

I want some of the more cheap hosts for my vB

I have version 4.1.2 running on my site and over the last couple of months we are getting overage charges from our host. It seems like the database is using a ton of transfer data for a site that doesn't get a lot of traffic. I have attached 2 images. One shows the amount of data being used by the database and the other is a screenshot of the vBulletin Admin panel and some of the info on amount of data the forum is using.

Anyone have any ideas if the amount of data I am using makes sense?


Thanks in advance,
OG


BTW I have attachments set to use a folder location on the server instead of the database.

Attached Thumbnails

   

going to Start a forum .

now i am looking for Hosting Solution

To start off i am looking at Around $5-10 to start monthly depend on what kinda option do i get like
IP / control panel / Bandwidth / stable

Expecting Growth rate about 50 - 100 user monthly .
Will be placing Ads and so on to improve User sign up.


and with a good option to Upgrade my forum grow so i do not need to worry about moving .

MY target User
Asia / China / USA / Euro / Middle East
is a international forum

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please advice .

How are you coping?