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I've spent a couple of hours looking through the threads on this page and I still don't know where to look for a new host.
It would be cool if there was some way to post a listing of all the host experiences where people could rate their experiences and have multiple people give feedback for each host all in one organized place.
Anyways, my current host, www.onsmart.net sucks. I've been fighting various issues for months which result in downtime at least once a week including the following.
- the host changing my cpanel passwords which also screwed up my SQL password - site was down for a full day before they would address it
- the host shuts down my site whenever the server load is "too high" although I've yet to see a load higher than 5.5
- the host is IP blocking "users who connect to the site too much" thinking they are spammers
- the host blocks any mass-emails that I send
- the host has disabled my mail server multiple times due to "spamming"
- SQL will mysteriously "stop running". When I contact support it will all of a sudden start running again and their systems say that everything is operational.
- etc...
I feel that my site has just grown too large for what my host wants, so I need to find something else. They are unreliable, service is terrible, and customer service is the worst I've ever seen. Most of the time their english is so bad that I don't understand them!!!!
Anyways...I'm currently running vbulletin 3.6.8 and openads' newest version.
I have pruned down to about 1800 members right now (and growing quickly) with 40-60 members online at a time and about 400 members per day.
I have about 32,000 threads and 275,000 posts.
I'm currently using about 1600 MB of disk space and 50 GIGS of bandwidth per month. I have 6 SQL DB's running, but I could reduce that to 3 with a homepage redesign.
I do have an old X_forum that's still running on the site as well, but it doesn't receive any traffic and is only for archive purposes (only about 30 members know it's even there).
I'm also temporarily hosting a YaBB forum for another site. This forum is very small and receives very little traffic (under 1 GIG per month) and will not be moved to the new host.
Do I need a dedicated server, or can I continue to use a shared server with another host?
Please help.
It would be cool if there was some way to post a listing of all the host experiences where people could rate their experiences and have multiple people give feedback for each host all in one organized place.
Anyways, my current host, www.onsmart.net sucks. I've been fighting various issues for months which result in downtime at least once a week including the following.
- the host changing my cpanel passwords which also screwed up my SQL password - site was down for a full day before they would address it
- the host shuts down my site whenever the server load is "too high" although I've yet to see a load higher than 5.5
- the host is IP blocking "users who connect to the site too much" thinking they are spammers
- the host blocks any mass-emails that I send
- the host has disabled my mail server multiple times due to "spamming"
- SQL will mysteriously "stop running". When I contact support it will all of a sudden start running again and their systems say that everything is operational.
- etc...
I feel that my site has just grown too large for what my host wants, so I need to find something else. They are unreliable, service is terrible, and customer service is the worst I've ever seen. Most of the time their english is so bad that I don't understand them!!!!
Anyways...I'm currently running vbulletin 3.6.8 and openads' newest version.
I have pruned down to about 1800 members right now (and growing quickly) with 40-60 members online at a time and about 400 members per day.
I have about 32,000 threads and 275,000 posts.
I'm currently using about 1600 MB of disk space and 50 GIGS of bandwidth per month. I have 6 SQL DB's running, but I could reduce that to 3 with a homepage redesign.
I do have an old X_forum that's still running on the site as well, but it doesn't receive any traffic and is only for archive purposes (only about 30 members know it's even there).
I'm also temporarily hosting a YaBB forum for another site. This forum is very small and receives very little traffic (under 1 GIG per month) and will not be moved to the new host.
Do I need a dedicated server, or can I continue to use a shared server with another host?
Please help.
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