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Dedicated server discussion. Advice please., Resources/bandwidth required for IPB?
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 Dec 6 2004, 10:06 AM
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 IZE Wubber  Group: Members Posts: 926 Joined: 29-August 04 From: Redneck Riviera, Florida Member No.: 122,662 IPB Version: Not Applicable  |
Hello all!
I would like a little advice and information. My current web host has become very unreliable lately. Constant outages. Sluggish speeds. Extremely poor customer service. My site was down Friday & Saturday because of a server board failure. I know hardware failure is not anyone's fault, but waiting until Sunday to respond to my emails to tell me what happened is inexcusable. I was in the dark with a dead site for 2 days. Ok, so anyways I've decided to go ahead and get a dedicated server and I'm full of questions. I have some good donations lined up to cover the setup fee and the 1st month. Hopefully, I should be able to sell enough hosting along with donations to pay the bill after that. There's lots of good deals out there on dedicated servers right now. I've seen everything from $29 to up in the thousands. What kind of processor/memory/bandwidth is needed to handle a small to medium size forum with ease and still handle a few dozen reseller accounts as well? I can see my forum having about 1000 members a year down the road. I want to plan this for future growth. Just how processor intensive is IPB? Does more ram help more or better cpu speed? How big of a difference does dual processors make? I've always used cPanel and I'm very familiar with it. I like the Fantastico feature. What about Plesk, Webadmin & Ensim. Are they better? Which one is easiest to use for selling hosting? Which dedicated server companies are the most reliable? If you're happy with your host, tell me about them. I've narrowed things down to a few companies that have been around a long time. aplus.net, serverpronto and serverbeach seem have good offerings. Anyone use these companies? Any others that I should consider? Minimum specs I'm currently considering: Pentium IV 2.0 or better or AMD 2000+ or better, 1 gig ram, 2x80 gig hard drives, cpanel w/ WHM, 1,000 gigs/mo premium bandwidth, free remote reboots. I'm looking at about $169/mo from serverbeach or I can go with a dual xeon 2.4 GHz from aplus for $30/mo more. Worth the difference? How many sites can I comfortably host on these configurations while of course retaining a very fast IPB site? I'd appreciate any advice from those who have already travelled this path... TIA for your help! gamecock --------------------  |
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gamecock Dedicated server discussion. Advice please. Dec 6 2004, 10:06 AM
Mina Well I have a 1.7GHZ Pentium 4 server with 512MB R... Dec 6 2004, 01:44 PM giggsey Rent it from the same place as Invisionize
There ... Dec 6 2004, 03:01 PM wiseguy I use http://nrghost.com and they are very reliabl... Dec 6 2004, 03:47 PM Nickoladze QUOTEduring E3 2004.
whats your site about??
i am... Dec 6 2004, 04:30 PM giggsey QUOTE(wiseguy @ Dec 6 2004, 10:47 PM) I use h... Dec 6 2004, 05:05 PM Larke I use the basic dedicated server package at Hostga... Dec 6 2004, 08:55 PM giggsey That looks OK Larke, I might get that if/when I ge... Dec 7 2004, 05:13 AM
Rk_ I got mine at http://hostdime.com
It is very relia... Dec 7 2004, 05:30 AM  |
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