Me and my partners are running forum on sharedweb hosting acoount. Few days ago our provider ask us to move our forum on dedicated server. Bu it little bit expencive for us at the moment. We have decided to move on VPS server. Is it good idea?
Now we take up myriadnetwork.com as VPS provider: http://www.myriadnetwork.com/services/vds.php
Are they good?
Thanks

Wait a minute. Myriadnetwork.com provide but no VPS - they provide VDS services. I think thats different things.

I have found many VPS cannot take the load of a forum but it depends how much traffic the site has and how good the configration of VPS is.

I have found many VPS cannot take the load of a forum but it depends how much traffic the site has and how good the configration of VPS is.
It depends also on how much load from those users is... like, if the site is offering downloads, how often are they downloading. Then, is the site containing a bunch of graphics... it's little things like that you have to factor into your determination of choosing what kind of hosting to look for.

Of course more - users -more disk space and traffic.

Wait a minute. Myriadnetwork.com provide but no VPS - they provide VDS services. I think thats different things.

VDS - VPS, different name, same stuff ;)

It's hard to tell whether their VPS will be capable of running your forum ac they don't give any CPU guarantees, nor do they state how many clients are ran on one server - I'd ask for a demo account and give it a shot, see how it'll handle a backup of your website or perhaps some benchmarks (Unixbench @ WHT does the job fairly well!)

You may start from a semi-dedi hosting. It'll be good for you.

VPS solutions are fine for most small/medium forums... What you need to look for is 2 fold...

1) The contention ratio. Meaning, how many other 'VPS' accounts are on the physical server. If you are sharing the server with 20 other accounts and each of those accounts have 20 domains, that's 400 websites all fighting for the same resources.

and

2) The amount of RAM you have access to. Most reputable companies will break it down into how much physical memory you have access to and how much burstable is available. Since forums are database driven, the amount of memory you have is important since the majority of your site will remain IN memory. If you are a small forum (meaning not a lot of traffic as each impression is 'hitting' the memory allocation as it queries the DB), an entry level VPS is fine... But if you start doing a lot of impressions, you'll need something with a bit more power.

As an example. When we first started out, we had a VPS1 from LiquidWeb (https://www.liquidweb.com/cart/content/vps/VPS/Plan1). This worked fine for about 9 months but soo, we started doing 2 million impressions a month and our 256mb of memory just wasn't enough. We then upgraded to the VPS2
(https://www.liquidweb.com/cart/content/vps/VPS/Plan2) which lasted us another year almost. But, again, our server stats had our memory usage at around 80-90% all the time so if we started getting heavily spidered for instance, the server was brought down under the load.

Needless to say, we are now on a dedicated solution with 2gb of ram and we're never more than 50% usage and our load only spike over 1 when I do something silly! ;)

My advice after upgrading like this is to use a company that has both VPS and dedicated solutions in the same datacentre and provide an easy upgrade path.

I've seen others who outgrew their hosting have to suffer the 48 hour propagation delay due to moving of servers, whereas where we are, we were able to go from VPS1 to VPS2 to Dedicated without an IP change so we experienced no downtime.

You can go for a VPS plan from myriadnetwork.com, they seem to be quite reputable and the plans aren't pricey at all, I just want to point out one thing - be careful with choosing the cpanel, 'cause say on 256MB plan the Cpanel will eats all your resources, so you'll be basically hosting your panel and not your forum.

There are cheap dedicated plans, cheapwer than VPS actually, starting with $60 among ********.biz plans.

Wait a minute. Myriadnetwork.com provide but no VPS - they provide VDS services. I think thats different things.
I don't think these things are different. Myriadnetwork.com writes:
A virtual dedicated server (http://www.myriadnetwork.com/services/vds_moreinfo.php) (VDS) acts like a dedicated server in every way – while retaining the ease-of-use of virtual hosting. VDS costs far less than dedicated, but you get root access, your own mail server, your own IP number, and a lot more. It's the choice for serious developers, ecommerce sites, or any other Web business that's outgrown its shared hosting environment..
Do you see any difference?

How much visitors do you plan to have? I'm asking as for a start-up forum a good shared plan may perfectly suit, and later youy'll migrate to VPS when your forum grows, the pluses of such solution are obvious: less money spent, no need to manage server yourself. Look at webhostingbuzz.com budget hosting plans with lots of bandwidth and disk space.

Does Webhostingbuzz.com provide any scripts for forum software?

It all depends on how big the forum is and how big the user base is. The more users, the more it will tend to get slower if you are on a regular hosting plan. Plus, your host may not like all the lag on their servers either.

There are forums which are perfectly run on shared plans, no matter which host you are going with, discuss the possibility of upgrade with him, like shared-->VPS-->dedi, I think you can do that with onthespothosting.net.

There are cheap dedi plans among ********.biz offers.

VPS is good for small to medium sized forums.

I would go with ServINT though.. :)

you can get good cheap dedicated web hosting, and if you have no idea what your doing, you can get server management from 30$... all good.

$30/month or year? :D

My dedicated solution has no control panel, but adding one uses resources and costs too much per month. Not worth it for non commercial sites like i run.