The server issue has been flogged to death, but often with emotional replies or people pushing their own hosting business. Can we please keep this thread on track?
It's likely my site will have 2000 plus members. Not all will be online at the same time, but there could be 50 to 100 or even more during peaks. I would also like to use Oxwall's built-in chat.
I'm planning on aVPS (Virtual Personal Server) with the host I'm currently with and it's 2 gig ram, 60 gig storage and 2,000 gig monthly bandwidth. It's $35 a month, but they want an additional $10 per month for cPanel. Say $45 month all up.
Being a semi-adult site it's not possible to use any old server and shared servers are out of the question.
In the past when people have written here about servers, ridiculous prices of $4 to $10 per month are quoted. Yet when I go to the sites mentioned, the prices are more like $60-100 a month.
I'm sorry about the long preamble, but does anyone know from personal experience, a GENUINE VPS server that will accept adult material (it's not a porn site) with cPanel capable of running my site for a more realistic price?
Please stop flogging your own shared server service please. I'm not interested.
Thank you in advance for your understanding and your help.
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Team Alia
Apr 30 '14
Average price for decent VPS is $30 and up.
Here is a comparison chart that you might use http://www.hostmonk.com/
I personally recommend checking plans from page 2 and further (http://www.hostmonk.com/vps_hosting/all/5) where price range starts from $20.
Here is a comparison chart that you might use http://www.hostmonk.com/
I personally recommend checking plans from page 2 and further (http://www.hostmonk.com/vps_hosting/all/5) where price range starts from $20.
Oxwall Accessories
May 9 '14
I use arvixe and I couldn't be happier. They have worked their way to oxwalls most recommended host and have a 99.9% up time guarantee. Doesnt get much better than that folks.
Kev
Jun 6 '14
I personally use DigitalOcean for my hosting. They offer unmanaged VPS (so no control panel), and a 2GB RAM, dual core, with 4TB of monthly bandwidth is $20/month. I've been using them for over a year now, and they really are great.
To get around the cPanel issue, I installed an open source control panel called zPanel it's really easy to install, it's light, works well, and I personally prefer it to cPanel. The 2GB is more than enough for my needs, and zPanel meets all of the requirements for Oxwall to run. I run my Oxwall site on it (http://motorbikecommunity.com)
Anyway, hope this helps, if you need any help with it, feel free to drop me a PM, or reply to this comment.
Good luck mate!
Kev
PS - Just has a look at their T's & C's, this may be of interest to you:
3.2 You agree that you will not transmit, distribute, post, store, link, or otherwise traffic in Content, information, software, or materials on or through the Service that (i) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, offensive, profane, contains or depicts pornography that is unlawful, or is otherwise inappropriate as determined by us in our sole discretion, (ii) you know is false, misleading, untruthful or inaccurate, (iii) constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, (iv) impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, or (v) includes anyone’s identification documents or sensitive financial information. DigitalOcean may permit, in its sole discretion, adult websites that abide by state and federal law and regulation.
The last sentence (in bold) may be of particulat importance to you.
The Forum post is edited by Kev Jun 6 '14
John
Jun 7 '14
Thanks Kev. It sounds interesting and the zPanel is also of interest. My mob want to charge me $12 a month for cPanel alone.
I'll write to them about the last paragraph, but it shouldn't be a problem. My site is a very restricted site serving Australian and New Zealand people only and is adult orientated as opposed to adult or porn. It falls within US laws and Australian and New Zealand laws.
Just one question. How many people do you think you have on line concurrently and are you using the built in chat? Sorry - two questions.
I'll let you know how I go.
I'll write to them about the last paragraph, but it shouldn't be a problem. My site is a very restricted site serving Australian and New Zealand people only and is adult orientated as opposed to adult or porn. It falls within US laws and Australian and New Zealand laws.
Just one question. How many people do you think you have on line concurrently and are you using the built in chat? Sorry - two questions.
I'll let you know how I go.
Kev
Jun 7 '14
Well, I've only launched my site a few days ago, so we only have a hundred or so members at the moment. The most that's been online at anyone time is around 60, I think. No idea how many of those were using chat.
However, I do monitor server resources closely, and the 2GB server that I mentioned also runs around 10 Wordpress sites, as well as a couple of simple html/css sites, and some of the Wordpress sites are pretty popular (100k unique visits a month) and I'm only using around 800MB of my RAM. The CPU is barely registering.
Hope this helps, happy to answer any questions that I can. I know Digital Ocean and zPanel quite well.
