I have a website using ~700MB disk space and ~15GB bandwidth/month.
This website has a forum(Invision Power Board), and this forum keeps arround 150 users at same time.

I found a lot of hosts selling more than this bandwidth and disk space, but I wanna have some oppinions before sign up with someone.

I´ve send an e-mail to lunarpages (~1:00 11/02 gmt), and untill now, no response.

I didn´t find anything bad about them on this forum, but searching internet I´ve found some complains about they are removing some websites with more than 90% cpu usage, how do I know if my website won´t consume 90% cpu?

Can I search for a shared hosting? Or do I have to search for somethig more specific like an dedicated server?

The point is, I want some reliable server, not someone who tell me they can´t host my website after host it for a while.

Plus there is another problem, I don´t have much money to spend at this time. This website was sponsored until last month, so I never really had any expense with hosting.

Thanks.

btw, sorry for my english, I´m from Brazil. lol

Originally posted by PaliteX
I have a website using ~700MB disk space and ~15GB bandwidth/month.
This website has a forum(Invision Power Board), and this forum keeps arround 150 users at same time.

I found a lot of hosts selling more than this bandwidth and disk space, but I wanna have some oppinions before sign up with someone.

I´ve send an e-mail to lunarpages (~1:00 11/02 gmt), and untill now, no response.

I didn´t find anything bad about them on this forum, but searching internet I´ve found some complains about they are removing some websites with more than 90% cpu usage, how do I know if my website won´t consume 90% cpu?

Can I search for a shared hosting? Or do I have to search for somethig more specific like an dedicated server?

The point is, I want some reliable server, not someone who tell me they can´t host my website after host it for a while.

Plus there is another problem, I don´t have much money to spend at this time. This website was sponsored until last month, so I never really had any expense with hosting.

Thanks.

btw, sorry for my english, I´m from Brazil. lol

Any sensible web host would remove your website with an option to upgrade to a bigger plan or dedicated server if your website consumes more than 90% of CPU. I see nothing wrong with it.

There's no set way to know if your website would counse 90% or not.

Btw, you should check out google ads for earning some $$$ to be able to pay for good hosting. ;)

- Reliability
- Good Support
- Features
- Low Cost

Generally speaking, you can only have 3 out of the 4 above. My suggestion would be to look for hosts that don't put a lot of clients on one server so that the server isn't bogged down by your site, combined with others'. You might also want to look at a virtual dedicated or semi-dedicated server.

Well said Akash. ;)

Yes I would definetly put google adsense on your site. You will make enough to pay for your hosting.

Agreed. You need a dedicated server with that many users. If you try and go even with a reseller plan you will likely have lost of "may user connection" mysql errors.

I would try and find someone to split a server with you at ev1 or servermatrix and hire an admin if you need help.

thanks for your help.

actually "150 users at same time" is not a big number :)

PaliteX, you still can go with virtual hosting, dont need a dedicated server what will take you lots of money and much time :)

I said that from experience as a person that has a forum that has 150 members online and have tried some of the best virtual hosts. 150 a site and 150 on a forum are different things.

Unless the host ups the max user connections for sql (which they won't to protect other clients) you are going to have problems with a virtual/shared plan.