I am quitting my old servers as well as my websites and starting a new forum. This forum will be very big as per the traffic is concerned,there may be atleast 100-200 members online! and i will be using phpbb3 and my modded forum takes around 5MB per page in queries and resources, I will be hossting 3-4 more small time sites specific to small niche or limited traffic so what kind of hosting and which host shall i look for? Reply with your experience please which host is good and needless to say the cheapest with satisfaction Regards
In addition i forgot to mention which host (if any) provides extra mods like xcache/memcache etc. etc.
If you really will have a forum with 100-200 members online all the time for sure you will need a good VPS or a dedicated server. On shared hosting your website will cause to much load and you risk to be suspended all the time.
you should purchase your own VPS or Semi Dedicated Hosting. Shared Hosting probably is not for you. But a dedicated server may be just a little too much
For unmanaged low end VPS servers I recommend IntoVPS. If you don't know how to manage a VPS yourself or simply don't have the time then I suggest you get a Fully Managed VPS server instead.
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I guess it's better to use dedicated server for forum with 100-200 users online. Some kind of mid-end should be enough.
Your requirements would make you a good candidate for a scalable Cloud Virtual Machine... That way you can simply scale up your resources when you need more!