Hi, guys

I want to host a forum, I suppose it may be pretty popular. Normally 20-30 person online all day long, sometimes even 100 people. I want to know how much traffic do I need? Anybody could give me an suggestion? Thanks in advacne.

traffic will depend on wat software you use, and how many people are posting/reading etc...

but if you are going to have more than 100 concurrent users, you may want to look at a vps solution

Thanks askshad, I will use VBB, normally one day have 200 new messages. And 5000 message will be read (plain one, without picture). By the way, what is "VPS solution"?

Originally posted by laro
Thanks askshad, I will use VBB, normally one day have 200 new messages. And 5000 message will be read (plain one, without picture). By the way, what is "VPS solution"?

I think he means "Virtual Private Server" but I could be wrong, as I have been known to do that :)

10G/Month enough? or more is required.

Yes, a VPS solution is what I meant :)

My suggestion is try go with a shared host that allows for easy upgrades, try it out for a month and see if you need more

Base on your number, my suggestion is to have 12-15GB at the beginning. The number usually decline a lot or increase a lot after the first two months. So at tht time you might reconsider. (10 GB is good enough when you have 20-30 ppl online and they only read the newest messages. anywhere under 8 GB is pretty dangerous for a popular forum.)

Thanks a lot guys, I will have a try.:)