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[Curtis H.]

You may want to take a look at http://dotable.com. Own the servers and accept PayPal. Reliable. I've had an account with them for more than a year which runs vBulletin. No complaints. Review their support...

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Being you went with 1&1 hosting and Powweb in the past, define "affordable."

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Give us an update down the road as to how they performed. ...

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Budget? Needs?...

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That seems high considering they are well known for kicking folks for using too much server resources.

50 or so is usually a good number from quality hosting providers in regard to concurrent...

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That's good news. At the least, buys you some time to do some homework and find an affordable backup solution. Good luck!

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Glad to be of help. Keep us updated.

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There are plenty of hosting providers who accept PayPal as a payment option. A couple that come to mind are:

Hostgator.com
Dotable.com
Resellerzoom.com

I'm not...

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The reason I asked about bandwidth was to get a better idea as to the traffic your forums may be seeing. I doubt pruning threads (that have been inactive) will help solve the issues you're currently having...

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Managed or fully managed VPS?...

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Normally, that amount of users should not be a problem. However, the amount of posts and threads seems high for some reason. Dunno. Bandwidth usage?

I have one forum in shared server enviorment...

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For starters, how many "Active Users" do you generally have on at one time? Are guests allowed to search the forums? Are all the forums public?

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Take a look at your disk space usage in cPanel. You'd be suprised as to how much space can be wasted. In FTP, look at your tmp directory and see if you have a problem with wasted space in your analog...

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Have you taken a look at www.jodohost.com? Please note that the servers are physically located in the USA from what I understand. Have no experience with them personally.

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Budget?

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If you are unhappy, there are plenty of hosting providers to chose from. What are you looking for in a host and what's your budget? Perhaps then someone can point you in the right direction....

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Red flag #1....

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Thanks for the update wii. Glad to hear you're still happy with Hostgator.

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Dan,

Take a look at these (3 of the 4 I have used) and do some homework and ask the hosting provider any specific questions that you may have. In no particular order:

Roch...