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You guys have been so helpful with my UBB questions over the last couple of year so I figure I will ask a few questions concerning a new host. I have been reading all the posts about VPS Dedicated, and shared till my eyes hurt. Our site is one of the top resources for First Generation Monte Carlos. http://www.firstgenmc.com We have some static content, a UBBThreads site, and a PhotoPost gallery. Our bandwidth for the last 6 months averages 25-35gb a month, our current host limits us to a 100mb database so we lose good information sometimes as we fight to keep it under the limit. We have around 2.5gb of disc space in use right now. So my question is how big of a host do we really need? What other stats would you need to know to help pick a new host? We are currently on a shared host... Thanks, Ian
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Max Online: 1204 @ 03/26/08 07:16 PM that's a small/medium load.. i think what Rick is offering for shared hosting is the ticket, really.. you certainly don't seem to be anywhere in need of VPS yet.. i offer hosting too, but would defer to Mindraven with his extra pricing perks on licenses etc.. assumption: USA based hosting, of course assumption: that MAX online is probably inflated with a large period between re-calcs..
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Whatever you do, don't "lose good information" to keep the size of your site below limits. You have to increase the limits to fit the site. It's OK to prune some fluff, but don't prune anything even remotely meaningful.
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Whatever you do, don't "lose good information" to keep the size of your site below limits. You have to increase the limits to fit the site. It's OK to prune some fluff, but don't prune anything even remotely meaningful. Yeah my thought exactly! But we have had too so far. I am convincing the club president to move, not to much needed
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Max Online: 1204 @ 03/26/08 07:16 PM that's a small/medium load.. i think what Rick is offering for shared hosting is the ticket, really.. you certainly don't seem to be anywhere in need of VPS yet.. i offer hosting too, but would defer to Mindraven with his extra pricing perks on licenses etc.. assumption: USA based hosting, of course assumption: that MAX online is probably inflated with a large period between re-calcs.. Yeah I think the max online is a little out of date. I am going to reset it and see how it goes. So we are not too small, but not too big yet
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I have to agree with the above comments. Rick is offering a "steal" especially with the dedicated servers he is going to bring to the table in the near future. I myself host all of my sites on my own equipment (which does allow me a lot of latitude with settings and such) but I also understand that if it weren't for the techy types here I would not have been nearly as successful as I have been the past 3 years (since I took over an old site that was well out of date).
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Besides if you have a server or ubb issue it would still be Rick either way. HE HE. So you don't have to deal with the host or Rick pointing the issue to the other guy. Then have to relay info back and forth between the two. That is what really appeals to me. So when I get closer to renewal I am probably going to switch to Mindraven.
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Those are my thoughts, Ruben... It would be nice to just PM Rick and tell him to fix the damned thing. He's working on a proposal for me now, in fact, for a dedicated server.
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Yea, this appeals to me much better that the eve project. That was way to expensive.
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