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[Afridi786]

I'm shopping around for a host that is reliable and would suit me most....my site will basically be a phpbb discussion forum where at maximum there will 100 users at once online, at hope there will a good amount of registered users, lets say mayb a 1500+ in a couple months and might have a subdomain specifically for a sports team im on, i.e. schedule, player profiles, standings, stats, etc. I was thinking SiteGround.com, but let me kno ur opinions, thanks. I'm a noob, if you haven't already guess it...lol.

[edifice]

For that kind of traffic, I think any shared hosting plan should be ok for you. But what's your budget? And do you think that number iof users will go up in near future?

[Afridi786]

im a noob, so i dont kno how much traffic i shud expect...budget thinking about $10, like monthly, and not having to pay upfront for a year or two, that is a big plus for me.

[E.Emile]

You vould g-et a shared hosting plan and later on ugrade it may be to a virtual private server

[Afridi786]

Which host would you recommend for quality, reliability, options, and ease of use for a noob?

[edifice]

You can look at ResellerZoom's buget plan (I am currently on that running my blogs and it has good performance). You can otherwise do a search around for hosting companies in that budget.

[micksss]

If you don't like to pay upfront and dig the month to month payments go with HostGator.

[rllunzmann]

I would definetly recommend staying away from hosts that make you pay 6mo to 1yr upfront. Given the requirements above you should easily be able to find a host that supports phpBB with more than enough bandwidth to cover your visitors. What hosts have you considered?

[cartika-andrew]

my site will basically be a phpbb discussion forum where at maximum there will 100 users at once online

Bandwidth is irrelavent here. Buy a package from a host that has packages built for application hosting. What you are really buying is processing power, bandwidth numbers are irrelavent really.

Maybe look at a provider like medialayer??

If you have 100 users online simultaneously now and expect to grow to 1500+, your best bet would be to buy from a shared provider that can actually accomodate 100+ simultaneous users today on phpBB (very few can). Then that provider should be able to seamlessly upgrade you to a a more dedicated solution as your requirements countinue to grow. Based on your comments, you will need fully managed solutions throughout the process, so ensure you have some sort of revenue generation associated with your site early on, as it is not cheap to host large forums.

having said this, you could also take the route of growing your forum without generating revenue, then buy one of the massive packages for $10 and wonder why your forum is always down or working really slowly

Always tough when you are just starting out, so make sure you research who ever you are going to go with and make the correct decision for your specific requirements (ie DB driven forum site with expected growth)

Best of luck and hopefully this information turns out to be helpful to you.