1st off I want to say hello to everyone. I have done some research including that wonderful sticky at the top of the page. Now before I begin a little about me.
I have been using VB since 2005, 1st on a crappy host whose name escapes me and to this day continues to charge me 3 bucks a month
in 2006 I moved to Godaddy. Initially it was alright but eventually my site got bogged down. Still being a novice I made another site using a more expensive Shared Hosted Plan aka Deluxe with GoDaddy. I haven't run into any problems since then other than the odd Timeout here and there. And sometimes my forums run slow. Not sluggish but slow, currently my forum is at about 100members with 60 throughout the day, and about 20 online at any given moment.
Now I will be opening another website in may, and Knowing what I know about Godaddy I want a modest solution. My only concern is the forum being as fast as possible. Multimedia etc will be hosted on my godaddy account. But the forums themselves will probably have maybe 200+ members with 70+ online at any moment (might be higher depending on popularity)
So now my question. I have done research and I see Hostgator, Bluehost, GlobalGold pop up allot. Im leaning more towards Hostgator because they are a USA based company. GlobalGold looks attractive being they have plans tailored specfically for VBulletin but they are a uk company, and I have had poor experiances thusfar with companies overseas. However if they are the best I will bite the bullet.
So any suggestions or feedback would be welcome. Thanks for listening.
I have been using VB since 2005, 1st on a crappy host whose name escapes me and to this day continues to charge me 3 bucks a month

in 2006 I moved to Godaddy. Initially it was alright but eventually my site got bogged down. Still being a novice I made another site using a more expensive Shared Hosted Plan aka Deluxe with GoDaddy. I haven't run into any problems since then other than the odd Timeout here and there. And sometimes my forums run slow. Not sluggish but slow, currently my forum is at about 100members with 60 throughout the day, and about 20 online at any given moment.
Now I will be opening another website in may, and Knowing what I know about Godaddy I want a modest solution. My only concern is the forum being as fast as possible. Multimedia etc will be hosted on my godaddy account. But the forums themselves will probably have maybe 200+ members with 70+ online at any moment (might be higher depending on popularity)
So now my question. I have done research and I see Hostgator, Bluehost, GlobalGold pop up allot. Im leaning more towards Hostgator because they are a USA based company. GlobalGold looks attractive being they have plans tailored specfically for VBulletin but they are a uk company, and I have had poor experiances thusfar with companies overseas. However if they are the best I will bite the bullet.
So any suggestions or feedback would be welcome. Thanks for listening.
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