Different access permissions

[Coreace]

Thanks Steve.

[Coreace]

I have member groups who have different access permissions, I would like for the members who have paid to be the only ones who are allowed a signature in their posts, or the option to have a small image...

[Coreace]

Replace your IDE drives with a SCSI. Otherwise, the Athlon MP is fine for your use. However, the more memory you can afford - the better....

[Coreace]

More memory is always the best thing to do. Ideally, push your 1.7mhz celeron to 1GB RAM. I doubt the cost is that great in upgrading the memory.

[Coreace]

That is cheap. Do you want to know how much my Xeon is? A quality service like SaintDog mention - will cost alot more. If you want the 'cheapest', the risk in getting 'stuck' in poor bandwidth or management...

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They seem to work too hard in 'hiding' themselves (didn't work). They say on their website they are not there for profit...

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I have not heard anything bad about VO. There will always be 'something' bad among the good things with a provider. No one is perfect. Overall VO seems to have a high level of satisfaction (compared to...

[Coreace]

# 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 #

I am afraid you will have to sacrifice...

[Coreace]

Imagine how zippy it would have been if you used a Xeon ...

[Coreace]

Originally Posted by Bobbaz
Your current server spec should be more than capable of handling that. What speed is it connected at?

His current spec is probably a 'desktop'... P4.

[Coreace]

Try webreseller.net

[Coreace]

When you say 'can't afford' VO, that means you will have to look for 'cheaper' options and perhaps sacrifice reliability/ performance.

Rackshack and webreseller are two options for you...

[Coreace]

Another pwebtech site. Similar price as webreseller and rackshack. Cheap is not always the best, go for the SCSI and as much memory as possible. For your skating board, you will need it - don't you...

[Coreace]

SCSI and as much memory you can afford, no point in in 256RAM.

[Coreace]

Just send him a private PM! No need to advertise yourself.

[Coreace]

Yes, you can run vB just fine. Again, I would not use your config in a production environment. For that please get a UNIX provider....

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Difficult... most ISP's will do as SaintDog mention - allocate a certain amount and then kill off any resource hungry process. Others (such as the Ensim ServerXchange) will allocate a minimum i.e 256RAM...

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hmm...

Stay way! hmm... I wonder when people are going to learn that quality hosting doesn't come cheap. Read the small print...

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What do you expect to pay for your 'little project? I'd say '5000 users and less than 100 users max per day' isn't exactly a small project. For some quality hosting expect to pay more than the $20 some...

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Yes, I have used that package myself. Very good and it actually worked (MySQL, php etc). Your vB should be ok running on that, perhaps you need to fidle a bit but ok. If you plan to have a busy forum...