Best host for vBulletin? (I need speed)

Quite a few people have complained that our site, http://www.theproductforum.com, is very slow.

I am looking for the best host for our forum, the two main criteria being -

• Load Speed
• Unlimited Bandwith

If anyone has any recomendations it would be much appreciated.

 

Really any host will work..
Might check out urljet, they seems to target vBulletin forums, also I've heard good things about http://hostatom.net.

 

Thanks Brandon, I am currently with www.register365.com and a few of our members have complained of seriously slow speeds. Have you used either of these?

 

I've never used them, I'd do a search at webhostingtalk.com for any host you may consider.

 

I recommend m3server.com to host your forum. Here is one I run that is hosted there if you want to see an example. livegroupbreaks.net

 

The speed is good.
Besides your can use CDN to speed up Static contents. If you are concern with price, try to load from *COOKIE-LESS* images from sub-domain or different domain
I also remove "What's Going on? " for non-members so that Server doesn't need to perform the query.

 

I'm recommened for HawkHost.com

 

It looks like you aren't caching your static content which is probably way they're complaining. Basically they have to download all the images on every pageload.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110527_AD_PY4D/


For a quick fix try adding this to your .htaccess file; it'll cache your static items for one month, GZip your text, and remove the E-Tags.

# 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

Header unset ETag
FileETag None

Code (markup):

As for a new host, I use 1 & 1 Internet. A little pricy but my down time has been pretty much nonexistent.

 

Oh, gee, you score 43/100 on Google PageSpeed. Add this too, along with what was just up there. vBulletin isn't really known for its speed, so you really have to optimize it yourself if you want to consider using it. That, or consider some other forum software.

Header unset Pragma
FileETag None
Header unset ETag

# 1 YEAR
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
</FilesMatch>
# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
# 2 DAYS 172800
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
# 1 MIN
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=60, private, proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>

Code (markup):

Also, scale down all these images to 48x48 and then run them under image optimizers such as YSmush.
http://www.theproductforum.com/forums/images/styles/TotallyPro/statusicon/id1forum_old-48.png

 

good info thanks man

 

try www.liquidweb.com hosting choose VPS package

 

have you tried http://seovb.com/vbulletin-services/professional-vbulletin-dedicated-hosting-plans

That's the one I am using now...

 

Agreed with mcloud. I wouldn't worry so much about which host as I would about upgrading to a VPS from shared.

 

Thanks guys, but really not an issue anymore. I sold my forum months ago...

 

i think you choice hxxp://ipage.com
it good for vbulletin