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Find a Cheap Host for a growing TXP site
Anyone know a good host where I can run a txp and vBulletin site without being suspended for using to much of the CPU
I get 1500-2000 visitors a day (growing) and about 7000 pages are viewed
I hope these figures grow but need a good host.
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum – desperate times
Geoff
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Re: Find a Cheap Host for a growing TXP site
If you are looking for cheap I used to be on powweb.com. Left due to their support though
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Hi thanks Colak I looked at powweb.com – they are cheap but have a big set up fee.
I´ve gone with GoDaddy.com – their Grid Hosting – it´s in Beta but hopefully will scalable to meet my needs.
These shared hosts offering unlimited everything until you get a bit of traffic are a disgrace.
Took my cash for over two years then suspended me without warning.
Thanks Geoff
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i’m in the process of switching over to hostmonster. so far so good. one night i was IMing with tech support at 4am, that was pretty convenient i must say. my sites aren’t that high traffic so i won’t know if this does me well, but i do serve a lot of bandwidth with my music stuff.
i see you’ve already picked a host but i just wanted to comment that my last host turned out to be a nightmare. i think it’s good to start out by supporting small companies, but in year 4 of being with this company they got bought out by an irresponsible purchaser. it was disappointing to say the least, but the migration has been going over fairly well so far.
i’m curious to know if my shared hosting plan on a big company will be able to handle any big server loads down the line.
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Hi Geoff,
How cheap is cheap?
I spend $200 a year on MediaTemple and think it’s very good value for money.
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It seems that you can have unlimited diskspace and bandwidth but not unlimited CPU cycles.
Take more than your ration for too long in a shared hosting situation and you´ll run foul of their ‘Level 3 Techs’ (which is a Hostmonster job title)
In my case no warning was given. I woke up to a site suspended html page.
They did quickly put my other sites back online once I disabled my busy txp site.
I have now moved servers and other than 1.5GB of photos which I need to transfer before the gallery will work again, everything looks fine again.
I haven´t tried Grid hosting before although I know of MediaTemple. Hopefully it will live up to expectations and theory works in reality.
Geoff
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geoff777 wrote:
mrtunes
It seems that you can have unlimited diskspace and bandwidth but not unlimited CPU cycles.
Take more than your ration for too long in a shared hosting situation and you´ll run foul of their ‘Level 3 Techs’ (which is a Hostmonster job title)
In my case no warning was given. I woke up to a site suspended html page.
They did quickly put my other sites back online once I disabled my busy txp site.
I have now moved servers and other than 1.5GB of photos which I need to transfer before the gallery will work again, everything looks fine again.
I haven´t tried Grid hosting before although I know of MediaTemple. Hopefully it will live up to expectations and theory works in reality.
Geoff
hi geoff, are you saying that your original post was about hostmonster? or are you warning me that this is the type of host which did you wrong?
nothing could really be worse than what i was using before, even on low traffic the server was always going down and just crawling at very slow speeds.
i wanted to consider some sort of grid/cluster but that was the trap i fell into with my old host, they promised that i would be upgraded to a grid that never existed after i paid some extra money.
well hostmonster offers a pro-rated refund should i be unsatisfied, so we’ll see how it goes and if i need a grid down the line.
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