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[royo]

With the extra RAM, make sure you're also getting more CPU power, as it seems that's what you're lacking. Can you handle managing your own VPS, or do you need a managed service?

[royo]

Just Litespeed and cPanel/WHM will cost around 20-25$. You also expect to get a 2GB VPS and backups? If you're willing to trade quality for price, it might be possible.

[royo]

Why would you want more RAM on your web server than on your database server? Also, it's impossible to say the exact numbers.

[royo]

I don't think it makes sense that your bandwidth is ~9GB and your database "transfer" is 130GB. I'm assuming the transfer is between vBulletin and your db and it seems kind of high. It seems...

[royo]

Do you know what the problem is? Do you need more CPU power, less I/O wait?

[royo]

If you've only hosted with companies that offer Unlimited everything, you're probably not going to see a difference between these.

[royo]

This is true because they don't differ, aside from having slightly worse and more unpredictable performance in the cloud.

Reddit uses AWS because their platform was designed to be able to...

[royo]

I think you underestimate how much work it would take to deploy a high availability environment.

[royo]

Getting protection for that size of DDoS is going to cost at least 10,000$. A software firewall will not help you.

[royo]

What exactly do you stand to gain if you move, aside from a new control panel?

[royo]

You will likely want to rent it and have a real datacenter host it. You'll also want to get a reality check, as forums take time to grow unless you already have a fan base assembled but no forum for ...

[royo]

If you need managed support it's a pretty good choice, but if you don't, you can get more hardware cheaper.

[royo]

That's a 3500$ investment, and your only bottleneck could be the HDDs, as you might want 4 in RAID-10 instead of two. How large is your database?

[royo]

In that case, the RAM typically depends on the size of your database. You should have more RAM than your database currently weighs, since indexes take space as well, and you want room to grow.

[royo]

And your current numbers are that high? I'd say it's a pretty solid shared host, unless you're currently only estimating those numbers in the future.

[royo]

You could start off by mentioning what is the current hardware your forum is running on.

[royo]

If you're planning to host something illegal in any way, you're going to get sued. Your domain registrar likely won't be sued, as they're not hosting your content, but you will. If you're going for free...

[royo]

MediaLayer is a performance oriented host and does not oversell at all, so do some research before making statements like that. I doubt he's going to find another shared host that will be happy hosting...

[royo]

People usually replace it. Why do you assume it needs to be the exact same model with the exact same firmware? A newer card model from the same company should work, as long as it supports the selected...

[royo]

Setting a server up inside an office is a very bad idea if you are serious about your website. You don't have the redundancy a datacenter can offer you in terms of power, cooling and connectivity. Renting...