Has anyone used SiteGround hosting for their vBulletin forum? Or for any forum really, just wondering how your experience went?

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Never used them, but I would be very cautious with any host that offers 500gb of diskspace for only $5.95/month.

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I use two sites for them.

I was cautious, but these guys are good.

They responded to my support tickets in 15 mins or less. (Even though they ask for one day).

I have two sites up:

40K Terra - Your #1 40K sourse

CRE Loaded 6 - Mini Warhouse - From bits to boxes we have it all.

these guys are good i'd say, using them for about a month now.


They will even transfer one database over for free, and/or install vbulletin for you for free.

Ryan, you're correct. I am hosted there, and simple thing like sending email to users causes an "mysql server has gone away" error. I am told to upgrade to their VPS!

I will be moving my site back where it was nonetheless.

They get you to host with them so that once you grow you have to upgrade or move, they only seem able to handle a tiny site and mine isn't that tiny.

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yeh i use them and their great service

From what I recall, SiteGround used to be a decent web hosting provider, however, as of recent, they are just another web host overselling their services to the extreme.

If I ever told any of my customers I could provide them a full hard drive and enough bandwidth to cover 2-3 dedicated servers (or more) for $5-$6 a month, I'd probably lose 90% of them.

You can't justify actually providing such limits and give customers the idea they can actually use them on a shared servers. It's just not going to happen.

It'd only take one customer to bring the server down utilizing those limits.

Something else to consider is the fact that they probably host 200-400 customers or more per server. Even with a dedicated cluster, are you really going to be able to provide 200-400 full hard drives and guarantee a customer will be able to use it?


Break it down further. If you they host *only* 100 customers per server, they are selling 50,000GB's of Disk Space, roughly 50TB's and 500,000GB's of bandwidth, roughly 500TB's.

Do you honestly see a shared hosting server being able to possibly push that much bandwidth in a month, much less a year? Do you honestly see, even with a clustered setup, a server or group of servers offering 50TB's of Disk Space (that would be 50-100+ hard drives).

The server(s) would simply cost too much, it's not feasible.


There is a reason there isn't a quote next to the disk space and bandwidth limits labeling it as "Guaranteed Disk Space" or "Guaranteed Bandwidth" as you'll never be allowed to use that much.

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