Does anyone run a forum (best if it is SMF forum) on a TCH site. What kind of usage are you getting, 100 posts a day or maybe 1000 ?? What kind of disk space is being used for the site and what is the tipical bandwidth used ??<br /><br />I have a friend that is hosting a site on a provider that I feel is overkill, that TCH can do the job for much less money. He has the feeling that a forum with maybe 100 active users a day will need a dedicated server to handle it. I think he is wrong and that TCH can do the job just fine for much less.<br /><br />Any info would be appreciated.<br /><br />Lee<!--content-->
Lee,<br /><br />First of all.....How was the fishing this past season?<br /><br />On to your question.<br /><br />We host many forums. some more active than others.<br /><br />Here is an example of what we host on a shared hosting account.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tristatesportbikes.com/vb3/" target="_blank">http://www.tristatesportbikes.com/vb3/</a><br /><br />A forum with 100 users should not present any issues at all.<!--content-->
I won't be much help, but I run an SMF Board with maybe 10 active users (25 total) and an average of 4.05 posts per day. Bandwidth usage is about 55 MB/month. Sorry that doesn't help much. I don't know if you can assume 25 times the posts will be 25 times the bandwidth.<!--content-->
I think the key word is 'active' users...I don't think this (tch's) forum has 100 'active' users per day!<br />I have a semi-dedicated, with several accounts and several variations of boards...the most active being problemadults.com. Members: 208<br />Threads: 2,760<br />Posts: 27,900<br />currently using 122 meg's of space, and 3154 meg's of bandwidth (with 12 days left in the month)<br />it's not a SMF forum, it's VBAdvanced, with the photo album, links pages, chat room(s) and arcade options all in place and used regularly<br />I'm certain that TCH can handle your friends forum on a shared hosting account <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tchrocks!.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tchrocks!:" border="0" alt="tchrocks!.gif" /><!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=197161:date=Dec 19 2006, 03:50 PM:name=Redeagle)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Redeagle @ Dec 19 2006, 03:50 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=197161"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think the key word is 'active' users...I don't think this (tch's) forum has 100 'active' users per day!<br />I have a semi-dedicated, with several accounts and several variations of boards...the most active being problemadults.com. Members: 208<br />Threads: 2,760<br />Posts: 27,900<br />currently using 122 meg's of space, and 3154 meg's of bandwidth (with 12 days left in the month)<br />it's not a SMF forum, it's VBAdvanced, with the photo album, links pages, chat room(s) and arcade options all in place and used regularly<br />I'm certain that TCH can handle your friends forum on a shared hosting account <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tchrocks!.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tchrocks!:" border="0" alt="tchrocks!.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />We have well in excess of 100 members per day.<br /><br />"115 user(s) active in the past 120 minutes"<!--content-->
Guild forum running phpbb, averaging 80 posts/day over the last 2 years (58577 articles to date posted). Less than 260 megs of diskspace used for the whole site. Uses about 10-20 gigabytes per month in bandwidth.<br /><br />Not certain about the users per day, but it has 843 registered members currently, with probably around 50-100 active per day.<br /><br />Hardly makes a dent in server processing.<!--content-->
I run an IPB 1.3 forum <br /><br />Have around 80 odd ACTIVE users a day, with near enough 10 GB of bandwidth used a month, with around 1,000,000 hits a month.... The forum itself uses about 120MB of disk space plus a 90MB mysql database...<br /><br />not ever had a single problem running it on TCH servers, been with TCH for about 3 or so years now I think<br /><br /><br />so i dont imagine you need a dedicated server at all as I am on a shared server<!--content-->
Lee,<br /><br />First of all.....How was the fishing this past season?<br /><br />On to your question.<br /><br />We host many forums. some more active than others.<br /><br />Here is an example of what we host on a shared hosting account.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tristatesportbikes.com/vb3/" target="_blank">http://www.tristatesportbikes.com/vb3/</a><br /><br />A forum with 100 users should not present any issues at all.<!--content-->
I won't be much help, but I run an SMF Board with maybe 10 active users (25 total) and an average of 4.05 posts per day. Bandwidth usage is about 55 MB/month. Sorry that doesn't help much. I don't know if you can assume 25 times the posts will be 25 times the bandwidth.<!--content-->
I think the key word is 'active' users...I don't think this (tch's) forum has 100 'active' users per day!<br />I have a semi-dedicated, with several accounts and several variations of boards...the most active being problemadults.com. Members: 208<br />Threads: 2,760<br />Posts: 27,900<br />currently using 122 meg's of space, and 3154 meg's of bandwidth (with 12 days left in the month)<br />it's not a SMF forum, it's VBAdvanced, with the photo album, links pages, chat room(s) and arcade options all in place and used regularly<br />I'm certain that TCH can handle your friends forum on a shared hosting account <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tchrocks!.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tchrocks!:" border="0" alt="tchrocks!.gif" /><!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=197161:date=Dec 19 2006, 03:50 PM:name=Redeagle)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Redeagle @ Dec 19 2006, 03:50 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=197161"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think the key word is 'active' users...I don't think this (tch's) forum has 100 'active' users per day!<br />I have a semi-dedicated, with several accounts and several variations of boards...the most active being problemadults.com. Members: 208<br />Threads: 2,760<br />Posts: 27,900<br />currently using 122 meg's of space, and 3154 meg's of bandwidth (with 12 days left in the month)<br />it's not a SMF forum, it's VBAdvanced, with the photo album, links pages, chat room(s) and arcade options all in place and used regularly<br />I'm certain that TCH can handle your friends forum on a shared hosting account <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tchrocks!.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tchrocks!:" border="0" alt="tchrocks!.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />We have well in excess of 100 members per day.<br /><br />"115 user(s) active in the past 120 minutes"<!--content-->
Guild forum running phpbb, averaging 80 posts/day over the last 2 years (58577 articles to date posted). Less than 260 megs of diskspace used for the whole site. Uses about 10-20 gigabytes per month in bandwidth.<br /><br />Not certain about the users per day, but it has 843 registered members currently, with probably around 50-100 active per day.<br /><br />Hardly makes a dent in server processing.<!--content-->
I run an IPB 1.3 forum <br /><br />Have around 80 odd ACTIVE users a day, with near enough 10 GB of bandwidth used a month, with around 1,000,000 hits a month.... The forum itself uses about 120MB of disk space plus a 90MB mysql database...<br /><br />not ever had a single problem running it on TCH servers, been with TCH for about 3 or so years now I think<br /><br /><br />so i dont imagine you need a dedicated server at all as I am on a shared server<!--content-->