Hello everyone. My contract with my host is about to run out and I think its time for a change. My site seems to be doing ok with them but lately a few cronjobs have not been going through (no errors received) and I am starting to get more downtime as my collection of sites are getting bigger. I am roughly pulling about 130-150gb/mo bandwidth and on a shared account that is kind of pushing it, I think? Should I be looking into a VPS perhaps? Every VPS review site is different it seems, as one shows a specific one to be a great candidate while another site shows mass problems. Some seem to offer 512mb of ram, when currently I believe that most shared hosts offer only a 64mb memory limit. Not sure if that means 64mb ram allocated or not, or burstable to. I seem to (from time to time) exhaust the memory limit at the moment with a browser game. Is there much of a performance boost when switching from shared to some VPS accounts? I have looked at 1&1, GalaxyVisions, Mochahost, VPSland, and a few others. Some sites show them with high ratings, others low. I almost went with GalaxyVisions and 1&1 until I saw the reviews. Any suggestions? Whatever I'd choose, I'd probably wish to be able to eventually have a topsite/directory website, which I know some shared hosts do not allow (like hostgator, unfortunetely). It would have to allow browser games (roughly about 90gb-110gb/mo of bandwidth alone within the next few months at current growth). The only other concern is the 500 mail / hour limit via mail() with my current host. Its not a problem most of the time but when I do events or sales it takes a few days to go through my whole entire client base.
Servers can be a pain. After I started gathering several sites I went to godaddy and got a dedicated server. It costs me just under $80 per month but it is my server to do with as I please and it can host many sites. I know their support sucks but I rather not have their help anyway. After some fine tuning and shutting down some of the garbage they had installed on there the server is now very quick. Up-time seems good for me also. No complaints after 2 years.....yet
I believe you need to contact several VPs providers and ask them and discuss with them. Maybe they will be able to recommend something for you. Here you are guessing and that is not the way to get the things right
Thanks for the replies and the PM's. I will not be able to go with some hosts like Hostgator (majority of PM's were of that) because they do not allow browser games in their TOS, not even for VPS accounts. Things to keep in mind: - I need well over 500 mail/hour limit via mail() - Browser Games/Web Directories/Potential Topsite - At least 150gb bandwidth per month - Low cost? but thats always good