What would be a Good Shared Hosting for Invision Community Software?

[Dr. McKay]

As title said, I am planning to build a small forum with IPB, what type of web hosting should I start with? a shared would be good for this forum software or a VPS?

 

[HostColor]

I would suggest you to get a virtual server based on full virtualization - VMware, kernel-based VM or any other similar virtualization. You'd also start with shared Hosting, but it is very likely that you'd need more computing resources.

 

[Dr. McKay]

Dr. McKay

Is this a kind of cloud hosting?

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

I would start with a good shared package then as you grow and need the space then you can get a VPS never buy more then what you need unless it is for a good price

 

[Malcolmjr96]

I just use HostGator shared atm, and when you're site starts becoming larger upgrade to vps etc.

 

[Dr. McKay]

Dr. McKay

I had HG shared hosting 10 years ago but my site used to suspended by DDOS and high traffic and when they recommend to upgrade to a VPS, the price is pretty high. It was not a good experience with HG.

 

[Malcolmjr96]

Malcolmjr96

Thanks for telling me this! I'll keep in mind when it comes up for renewal, hopefully if my site picks up enough speed I'll fly it onto a VPS!

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

ForwardWeb - Branden

Hi I actually realize I had made a error I meant that I would not really recommend HG

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

ForwardWeb - Branden

My goal here is to be open and honest with everybody so my recommendations would be mddhosting bigscoots.com or of course the company I represent forwardweb.net all are smaller independent companies which will give you wonderful experiences consider any of them and you will do just fine apologizes from the typo from before I wrote the post on my phone

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

Well it’s good that some have had good luck with HG I would Not recommend them with a good heart having had bad experiences in the past i
value independent hosts most of which you may never heard of but provide great service you don't need a big name to be successful
I also view my prospective hosts interactions here before i ever email them
my first ever experience with hosting i was with a company 1&1 Internet i moved from there to a company started by a friend who it turned out cared even less then my previous host so that is what shaped my views and you can see I found a wonderful host and like them so much I now rep them in this forum