Do I Need VPS Hosting for This Forum Site?

Here are the facts of the forum site:
Monthly bandwidth: 90-100 GB
Database size: 450MB
Threads: 28K
Posts: 370K
No. of members: 4K
Software: SMF
Daily visitors: 1000-1,500 a day

Should I stay with a shared hosting at this time or move to a VPS account?

 

I would recommend you get a vps, 90-100gb of badwidth will start getting heavy on a shared account ... and with 1.5k visitors a day and adsense there will be largely enough income to pay for it.
Regards.

 

As bratosab says, move if you want to. Many shared hosting accounts will cope with what you are doing, but you need to be prepared to upgrade. Better to do it as a planned installation than to have it forced upon you and you need to do it quickly.

 

Thanks bratosab and RonBrown. How much minimum RAM should I get? I want to use WHM/cPanel for this.

 

I can provide very powerful shared web hosting for £2 a month; completely unmetered. You would be able to host your forums easily with that.

 

I'm afraid I can't help you with that one. I'm a Windows person and don't know enough about Linux and CPanel to help except to say, "as much as you can reasonably afford". Maybe someone with more knowledge of the performance of VPSs on this platform can help. Sorry!

 

Well if your site is running OK with shared hosting stick with it. But if it's running slow etc.. then move to a dedicated server.

I can't see any problem with Shared hosting my self.

 

There's a problem with Shared Hosting when they suddenly suspend your account for high server resources and you have no time to move out your site to another host.

 

You can't go with shared hosting forever , if you are saying you get 1k visitor per day that may not go well on a Shared hosting , shared hosting not always fast , you may not pay attention but during the 24 hours there are times where the server gets high load and your site start loading slowly , i would advice to get a small vps and be independent

 

Thank you, Amaroks. I am seriously considering your advice.

 

Sure, you're welcome

 

You can always start with a low end VPS and upgrade as you go. One of the few benefits of a VPS as it's fully scalable based on your needs.

 

My concern now, as what I've read lately, is that many vps hosts oversell their servers. Therefore it's not much different with shared hosting plans. Shared hosting companies oversell and so do vps hosting companies. Where shall we draw the line when there are so many oversellers?