SO after several huge downtime issues with my current host i've decided to move my forum (or rather, restart it as my host managed to lose all our data.).
I'm looking to get a VPS for this, i'm inexperienced with this but i'm sure I could figgure out how to set it all up.
My question is what kind of resources I need for a forum with around 3K members, the forum software is IPB and has the chatbox addon (which i'm told is quite a resource hog).
I've looked at sites such as
lithium hosting, afterburst and ramnode, but i'm unsure what kind of package I need.
How much disk space and monthly bandwidth does your website require?
Virtual Private Servers normally offer relatively low disk partitions, so if your forum has any kind of file sharing elements, such as map / mod uploading or attachments, you can easily and quickly fill up a 40 GB VPS service.
Also, how many of the 3,000 members are active on a day to day basis? How many concurrent users do you expect to have on your website at any given time?
Popular forums with hundreds of concurrent users would require a fairly high-speed port connection, such as 1 Gbps, to properly serve all of your members without any kind of speed limitations.
I'd like to suggest the 100tb hosting platform. They offer fairly high-quality dedicated servers at industry-low prices. Virtually every server that they provide will be more than enough to handle your website with ease.
However, if price is important, they also provide on-demand Cloud Servers, which you can scale as your website grows. (wouldn't recommend their cloud servers if your website is disk-intensive)
As for which server you should choose? Honestly, there isn't an easy way to determine a proper answer, as it depends entirely on the specifications of your board, as well as the activity of your members and the content that they contribute.
- Ty H.
[QUOTE=DRServices;40551072]Popular forums with hundreds of concurrent users would require a fairly high-speed port connection, such as 1 Gbps, to properly serve all of your members without any kind of speed limitations.[/QUOTE]
Uhh, no. Not even close. Maybe if caching didn't exist, sopie didn't allow hotlinking images and hosted them all himself/herself, and a quarter of his/her 3,000 members were online at any given time then maybe.
Also, 100tb hosting's prices [I]start[/I] at $200 a month for dedicated servers. You don't need 8 gigabytes of ram, a Xeon E3-1230v2, 2 terabytes of disk space, a 1gbps port (^) or 100 terabytes of data a month to run a forum with 3,000 users. You probably still wouldn't need [I]that[/I] much grunt to host a forum with 15,000 users. I thought you hosted websites for a living? Surely you realize this? The cloud servers are a less than ideal proposition as well.
sopie, [URL="https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing"]Digitalocean's $20/month plan will probably suit you just fine.[/URL] If you think you'll need a bit more processing power for mysql and such, have a look at [URL="https://www.linode.com"]Linode's '2GB' plan.[/URL] Nice new processors in there, Sandy Bridge I believe. Also, I'll throw in a recommendation for [URL="http://afterburst.com/unmetered-vps"]Afterburst.[/URL] The owner is a Facepuncher and I've been with them for almost 2 years. I can honestly say that I have no complaints and I absolutely recommend them. 'Big' will probably suit you.
I still stand by my original point regarding the amount of disk space required. If you operate a forum for a gaming clan, and if you upload content such as maps or mods for a game such as TF2, the space provided by a VPS could be used up fairly quickly.
(assuming each map is 30 MB in size)
The 1 Gbps connection speed I suggested was based off of the assumption that the website would be used by a video gaming community, and that a fair amount of content uploading and downloading would take place on his/her forum by dozens of members every couple of minutes.
Additionally, I wasn't basing my suggestions off of his/her current usage, but the potential that he/she will require more space as the forum continues to grow. Future proofing, so to say.
It may have been wrong for me to assume that the forum was at all game or clan related, or that any kind of map / mod distribution would take place.
So yeah, sopie; I'd suggest going with Hookerbot9000's advice here, rather than mine.
I based my original reply on too many loose assumptions, and I apologize for that.
- Ty H.
linode
I can offer you
512MB Guaranteed RAM
1GB Burtsable
50GB HDD
Unmetered 1Gb/s.
For $12.95 a month, we have lots of people using it for forums and it works pretty well.
Disk space is the least of your concerns for a forum, ignore DRServices.
I would agree that the $20 DigitalOcean package or the 2GB linode package are the best choices. I personally use the $20 DigitalOcean package and have no issues with them and performance is great (I did have a couple of minor issues when I first migrated to them but they have sorted them by upgrading their network hardware). Linode are pretty much the best VPS provider you will find but they are on the expensive side.
[QUOTE=HTF;40614916]Disk space is the least of your concerns for a forum, ignore DRServices.
I would agree that the $20 DigitalOcean package or the 2GB linode package are the best choices. I personally use the $20 DigitalOcean package and have no issues with them and performance is great (I did have a couple of minor issues when I first migrated to them but they have sorted them by upgrading their network hardware). Linode are pretty much the best VPS provider you will find but they are on the expensive side.[/QUOTE]
Has your view not changed after their recent hack?
[QUOTE=ReThinkVPS;40615107]Has your view not changed after their recent hack?[/QUOTE]
I think it has highlighted how a zero day in an application server can be a problem for anyone. Linode themselves have not done anything overtly wrong from a security standpoint everything was hashed and encrypted (except the last 4 digits of CC info, but that is common practice). The issue was down to Coldfusion and as it was a zero day that nobody knew about (Adobe did patch it but a bit too late for linode) there is nothing you can really do.
I do hope that going forward linode stop using Adobe products as they do not have a great history for vulnerabilities.
This is a little late I think but Linode is notorious for using old hardware and nullrouting you at the first hint of any sort of attack (which it doesn't sound like you face, but just in case)
There's afterburst, that's pretty cheap and unmetered bandwidth could be what you'd need
[QUOTE=Map in a box;40661088]There's afterburst, that's pretty cheap and unmetered bandwidth could be what you'd need[/QUOTE]
I just got my VPS moved to their new nodes in germany.
Took them 3 minutes from they said they started till they were done. WTF?!
Also tickets take 2-5 minutes and you have a answer - depending on your situation
[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;40659684]This is a little late I think but Linode is notorious for using old hardware and nullrouting you at the first hint of any sort of attack (which it doesn't sound like you face, but just in case)[/QUOTE]
I can't speak to the overzealous null routing, but they've just rolled out new hardware across iirc all of their nodes. It's why all the plans got double everything recently.
e: ^ great aren't they?
-snip nvm-
Pretty sure he doesn't care anymore, this thread is 5 years old lol
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What kind of VPS do I need for a forum?
