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Hopefully Gizmo and others can chip in, but is there a good webhost out there who can host a rather large UBBT forum (that isn't as busy as it used to be) without the need for a dedicated server?

Is the solution nowadays going to be cloud based or simply a shared server?

Try looking at inmotionhosting.com
I have two customers that really should be on vps or dedicated plans that are working fine on shared pro plan
And they are not part of the eig group that bought out
Everyone including blue host and go daddy

Many thanks for the tip! I had no idea about EIG and the whole "black-hole scoop-up" of the hosting industry by them. Will definitely migrate to inmotionhosting.com to support the independent companies still out there. Currently I'm with HorizonIQ (formerly Inap, before that SingleHop) so I hope they're not somehow connected to EIG...

As for Godaddy, have they really been bought out by them too? If so what is currently the best place to move my domains to?

You mentioned VPS/dedicated/shared plans with inmotionhosting.com but I noticed that they have an "entry-level" dedicated server that seems quite cheap (almost too good to be true!) at $35/mo:

16GB DDR3 RAM
1TB SSD
Xeon® E3-1246 v3* (4 Core / 8 Thread)
1 Dedicated IPs

I'm currently on a 2x/dual intel Xeon E5620 (2.4 GHz) server with 12GB of RAM and regular HDD (not SSD) that is over a decade old. Would the above server easily handle the same load (or possibly even do a better job at it?)? Would the tradgang.com forum you moved to SMF run on such a dedicated server without issues?

My other questions remain valid but I apologize Ruben for getting the server info wrong.

The $35 dedicated server option is just for the first month ($70 thereafter), so the real server choice to consider would be the following:

32GB DDR4 RAM
2TB SSD
Xeon® E-2134* (4 Core / 8 Thread)
5 Dedicated IPs

Would this easily handle the tradgang.com forum as well as anything you could throw at a 2x/dual intel Xeon E5620 (2.4 GHz) + 12GB of RAM?

Tradgang used a custom dedicated server from some host in Canada
I never got the specs on the new server they got but I recall the price it was $600 to build the server and $400 per month

Al I remember it was extremely fast and the site stopped crashing
But they had a huge database
I had to upgrade ubb then import to smf
On my local machine then upload to the new server
It took 5 full days from download to upgrade to import to upload to new server
And my connection is 200/200

That must have been quite a powerful server at the time.

I've been looking at the inmotionhosting.com site that you previously recommended and the following dedicated server got my attention:

Xeon® E-2134 (3.5 GHz, 4 Core/8 Thread)
32GB DDR4 RAM
2TB SSD
$99.99/mo

I have also been thinking about a shared solution to keep the costs down, but since I host a few small sites I could probably make the server above pay for itself.

That install you mentioned must have been a real data-grinder. Was it the waiting for the conversion to finish that took the longest or did the upload/download on a 200/200 connection also take its time?

both I think it was around three hours to download two days upgrading UBB then three days converting to smf then it took longer to upload since I was uploading a full complete database .

I note that it took several attempts because of the duration ,the connection dropped out a few times during the upload.
Not sure if it was my isp or the host