Hosting for a large forum

twobeds.com is on a dedicated server iirc.

I would have thought the advanced pacakge from vida host would be ok to get you started. I will wait for beansprout to confirm whether its a vds / vps, i dont think it is.
 
A VDS/VPS won't really be useful in this instance, since a VDS is still shared hosting - it just has the flexibility of a dedicated server, meaning you can log in as root, install things, do whatever you like without affecting the other people on the physical machine.

The consideration that makes shared hosting unsuitable for large forums - performance - is still applicable to VDS/VPS hosting.
 
DiscoKandy said:
Would your advanced package from www.vidahost.com be suitable for a starting ground for the forum beansprout ? I pressume its a VDS/VPS type package?

Thanks for your help
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I couldn't really say since it's my company and that might break the rules. So I'll say "generally, shared hosting will be fine, but each site varies and you may outgrow shared hosting depending on how quickly your site grows" :)

If you want an official answer, go the official route :)

We don't offer VDSs (yet) and I'd agree with robmiller that there's little point since you just get extra flexibility, and maybe even less resources, for your extra money. Note: This isn't bias as I could quite easily pimp up VDS as we're soon to offer them (probably) :)

So Beansprout.. dreamhost would be ok for me just for a kinda site front type thing and I'm thinking about an uploader like (Tru's? The twobeds.com one). It'd survive that I take it?
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Uploaders require disk space and bandwidth - they're not CPU intensive at all. I hardly even notice mine and it has several thousand files and takes up a whole chunk of disk space.

But getting a script which limits images' bandwidth usage would be good, because one morning I found a bunch of images linked from a Chinese pr0n forum which were responsible for 20mbit/sec worth of traffic - not that Dreamhost would have a problem of course, but you could go over even their bandwidth limits if things like that go unchecked :)
 
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robmiller said:
A VDS/VPS won't really be useful in this instance, since a VDS is still shared hosting - it just has the flexibility of a dedicated server, meaning you can log in as root, install things, do whatever you like without affecting the other people on the physical machine.

The consideration that makes shared hosting unsuitable for large forums - performance - is still applicable to VDS/VPS hosting.
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I would just be looking at shared hosting as a way of keeping the initial cost down until enough users and revenue had been generated to justify a dedicated server.
 
DiscoKandy said:
I would just be looking at shared hosting as a way of keeping the initial cost down until enough users and revenue had been generated to justify a dedicated server.
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In which case you don't need the flexibility of a VDS, so just go with regular shared hosting until you can justify a dedicated server :)
 
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