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06-23-2006, 04:09 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,633 Location: Holmfirth, England    
| Hosting: Shared & Dedicated What is the differene exactly between Shared & Dedicated hosting?
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06-23-2006, 04:13 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | Shared hosting means that you are on a server along with many other small to medium-sized websites - this is the economy plan...the cheaper option of the two and the way to go unless you have a very active or very resource intensive website. Dedicated hosting means that you are all alone on your own server...this means more resources for you to use...lots of diskspace, lots of bandwidth, and lots of CPU usage available...the catch is that it is going to be at least 10x as expensive as the average shared plan....and the best of the best dedicated servers can be hundreds of $ per month.
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06-23-2006, 04:17 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,633 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Ah, so all forums that grow large will probably have to move to dedicated hosting?
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06-23-2006, 04:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,479 Location: Alabama 
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06-23-2006, 04:22 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,633 Location: Holmfirth, England
| no wonder owning a forum can get expensive
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06-23-2006, 04:25 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,479 Location: Alabama
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I will be using: Servstra AMD Servers More than likely a 64 Bit 3200 with 2GB of RAM. However I can not get a price at this time since they are not taking new orders till the 12th of July. | |||||
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06-23-2006, 04:28 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | Forums can be expensive, yes...however...if a forum requires a dedicated server, that also means that it is bringing a lot of traffic...Enough traffic that if it is monetized correctly, can bring in far more revenue than needed to cover the costs...in fact, forums that are on dedicated machines are going to be the forums that see the most profits - that is, of course, assuming that the owners/admins place ads in the forums. Think of it like this...every visitor that comes to a forum will add $2 of revenue potential but only cost $1 for server resources (those numbers are obviously fake, but that is the basic concept behind this)
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06-23-2006, 04:28 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,633 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Hmm... i am only paying £23 ($38) per Year for mine, but thats only a basic package of 250MB space 5GB Bandwith, and 3 mySQL databases
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06-26-2006, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 78 Location: InCosmos.com 
| See it like this, more tha traffic, more need of resources and you can be on shared still but dedicated would be better to prevent forum knockdowns. And this costs little bit more. So, in long run, your forum value also increases. | ||||
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06-27-2006, 07:02 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7 Location: NY | A quality VPS can handle a large forum easily and I guess it falls between shared and dedicated hosting as far as resources and flexibility goes. | ||||
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