Greetings I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge, as I'm not very tech-savvy and only do this as a hobby that, fortunately, paid off. All I know was self-taught and only learned what I needed when I needed it. I'm looking for an Offshore VPS for, at least, 3 websites. Those were websites that I managed for over 4 years untill last year my host shut me down due to a DMCA notice and, due to my lack of caution, the most recent back-up I had was over 1 year old so I said "screw it" and let the websites die. All three of them had "good" traffic, one was in top 30k Alexa and the other 2 were in top 70k. None of them were SEO optimized nor did they have meta-tags or something like that, so they have room to grow. Most of the traffic they got was organic, by search results or word of mouth in the case of a forum I had. I want an off-shore VPS because the 30k Alexa website was a mix between YouTube/Hulu and listing website, like SurfTheChannel/SideReel. It both had embedded videos and links to sites with other videos on them. It was due to this that my host received a DMCA noticed and shut me down. I don't know server specifics since I don't know what I need. I paid $15 for my former VPS, which had 40GB hard space and 500 GB bandwidth. That's the only specs I remember, I never needed all of that. This host is now asking $30 for their cheapest VPS so I guess that's their going rate now. I'm looking to spend $20-30/month in the first two months. I just want to see if I can regain some of my former traffic and build from that. I want a host that I can grow with, since I'll probably add 2 more websites if this is sucessfull. Once again, sorry for my ignorance in the matter. Thanks in advance for your help.
Think that you will find a good VPS hosting solution for your budget.. Could you specify your RAM and CPU requirements? It will be also a good idea to contact them directly and discuss what you will host on their servers.
Thank you for your reply. I really don't know my RAM or CPU requirements. I'm a total amateur at this, I started as a moderador on a fansite board who "inherited" the board when the owner split and I took charge because of the amount of time and stuff I had already done, then that site eventually grew to include videos and then I applied what I learned to create two manually-updated tube sites. None of the sites are professionally made, it's just Joomla with a few plugins and phpBB. I just know I can't have shared hosting because I had two previous hosts who said I used too much resources. I'm thinking of ditching Joomla altogether, though. I have contacted a few but haven't made my mind yet. So far, 1and1 and wrzhost don't have a problem with my content. I learned of them when I started poking around "famous" tube/listing sites and saw where they where hosted. I'm reluctant because of the reviews I've seen in this and other sites regarding those two hosts. Hopefully, I'll have everything sorted by the end of the month, I want to have a clear game plan when I start instead of doing experiments after purchasing the VPS.