Do you think I need to upgrade to VPS?

It's Dondon, not Donald

 

Yeah i knew that, just a long 48 hours with no sleep sorry

 

Where is the location of your servers and datacenters?

 

Our servers are in North Carolina United States at caro.net data center..

They are also on a 100mbps dedicated tier 1 bandwidth port

 

Our Bohol forum site is not really that big, but I am looking at your host service to be a good place for relocation when our current host can't meet our needs anymore.

 

My best suggestion for you would be to get test files, check download speed. Make sure you are happy with them. Ask what other forums they host and look at size/speed of site load.

 

I am relying on testimonials now. It's difficult to make a decision based on speed since speed can falter. Our Internet connection is not that stable. I am scouring for statements of satisfied customers. Genuine testimonial, that is.

 

I would suggest checking:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com
http://www.webhostingstuff.com
http://www.webmaster-talk.com

 

TheHosted, thank you for sharing the links. I'll check them out.

 

Don't listen to the WebHostingStuff Top 10. It's highest bid wins.

Jay

 

Oh really. Thanks for pointing it out. It will help us in the decision-making.

 

No the top 10 isn't good but the testimonials page is from clients. They can be a good insite on any hosts.

 

You can only have a visitor per day and still aim to host your site on a VPS or dedicated server.

Root access is the way to go if you need to unlock the full potential of a site at any stage of its development

 

That depends. If the forum doesn't require anything beyond the standard PHP extensions available via cPanel's EasyApache, you might not want to fork out on a VPS (especially if it's unmanaged and you need emergency assistance) or dedicated server.

Jay

 

Very good thread here... Thanks everyone, I have learned a lot from reading over this!

 

.... Hostgator banned my site too and they said something very bad to me about we don't have time with you and when I ask them to give me a complain email or which company complain and which link they complain so I can fix, they just didn't give it ....

When I ask for the backup, they said we don't care about your backup, you have to back it up yourself .... That's a very nice service ..... I already paid for 1 whole year .... and now only the second month, they suspend my account without give me a warning for me to backup .... I think the reason not about copyright but ... my site is getting bigger and bigger .... they stop it because they found no reason to stop it

Here's my site traffic: http://extremetracking.com/open?login=dungdenv

Here's the letter they send back to me even when I ask for the link which is copyright complain ... they just didn't answer the question but said this:

"We don't have time to go back and forth with you on a regular basis, giving you new links every time to illegal content and things that violate our terms of service. You either run a legal account with legal content, or we suspend you. We cannot re-enable accounts with illegal content, because we're not going to go through and clean the account for you. We expect people to follow the rules, and are not going to waste our time fixing the account if you do not. You can keep your own backups of your account, but we are not going to spend our time cleaning your files so we can provide one for you.



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Extremely high ligh those word "We don't have time to go back and forth with you" (Even i just send them 2 email and it was very nice email asking why my account got suspended and can I remove them and get my account back)

"are not going to waste our time fixing the account" - "You can keep your own backups of your account, but we are not going to spend our time cleaning your files so we can provide one for you." -> When I'm asking if I can backup my file ....

What do you guys think about this kind of service .... If possible please tell other about their service so noone will get stuck with them and get suspended when the website get bigger

 

As what I understand from the email message of Hostgator, your site was suspended due to its content, which, according to Hostgator, is not legal.