Hi,
I'm moving my current UBB forum over to vBulletin in the next couple of months and am looking for a good, reliable host for it. I'm just not sure whether a virtual server will be good enough or whether I need to go for a semi-dedicated option.
My current host (http://www.oneandone.co.uk/) is cheap with good bandwidth (40 gigs/month) but suffers from crippling cgi restrictions - only 12 scripts can be executed at any one time and when that is exceeded things are halted for several minutes
The same will happen with vBulletin because they run PHP in cgi-mode as far as I know. Hence the need to change host.
So I'm looking for a good host with 35+ gigs bandwidth a month, that is known to run vBulletin well and costs in the vicinity of $25-30 a month. It would need to be able to handle approximately 750,000 - 1,000,000 forum page impressions a month and that's my big question - can a virtual server handle that? I'm hoping vBulletin, as PHP/MySQL based software, will be less server intensive than UBB but I simply don't know so maybe someone here can advise me on that?
I've looked at semi-dedicated/virtual private server options around the $65/month mark but simply can't afford it for a site which is only a hobby and brings in little or no income.
After browsing through a few topics here, two virtual server options I've found with sufficient bandwidth at the right price are:
http://www.realwebhost.net/
http://www.dr2.net/
Would people recommend one of these hosts?
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I'm moving my current UBB forum over to vBulletin in the next couple of months and am looking for a good, reliable host for it. I'm just not sure whether a virtual server will be good enough or whether I need to go for a semi-dedicated option.
My current host (http://www.oneandone.co.uk/) is cheap with good bandwidth (40 gigs/month) but suffers from crippling cgi restrictions - only 12 scripts can be executed at any one time and when that is exceeded things are halted for several minutes

The same will happen with vBulletin because they run PHP in cgi-mode as far as I know. Hence the need to change host.
So I'm looking for a good host with 35+ gigs bandwidth a month, that is known to run vBulletin well and costs in the vicinity of $25-30 a month. It would need to be able to handle approximately 750,000 - 1,000,000 forum page impressions a month and that's my big question - can a virtual server handle that? I'm hoping vBulletin, as PHP/MySQL based software, will be less server intensive than UBB but I simply don't know so maybe someone here can advise me on that?
I've looked at semi-dedicated/virtual private server options around the $65/month mark but simply can't afford it for a site which is only a hobby and brings in little or no income.
After browsing through a few topics here, two virtual server options I've found with sufficient bandwidth at the right price are:
http://www.realwebhost.net/
http://www.dr2.net/
Would people recommend one of these hosts?
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
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