We are looking to change hosting from 1&1 in Germany because frankly, the old host and support from 1&1 aren't up to it. Also, we have planned an upgrade to VBulletin 5 that needs doing, but a lot of the addons and plugins in VB4 aren't compatible with VB5.
AmiBay is funded on a donations basis and our budget is around £50 maximum per month, based on the level of current donations. We aren't looking for charity or free hosting here, what we are looking for is a decent hosting for a reasonable price. If the donations were better, we could afford a better setup.
Our choices are to go the cloud hosting route or stick with real hardware. Real hardware is great but based on our budget, we'd struggle to get beyond dual core processors and around 8Gb ram. I have no experience of cloud servers, I'm the first to admit that. Either way, we ideally would need a managed LAMP setup (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHPMyadmin) so that we wouldn't have to worry about updates to the infrastructure underneath the site.
The site database is about 10Gb, images take up a lot of space (about 20Gb) and we'd need at least 100Gb of drive space for the site and development work.
Can members share their experiences of hosting and maybe recommend a host that could fulfil what we need at a reasonable cost? In the interests of transparency, I'm throwing this out there.
AmiBay is funded on a donations basis and our budget is around £50 maximum per month, based on the level of current donations. We aren't looking for charity or free hosting here, what we are looking for is a decent hosting for a reasonable price. If the donations were better, we could afford a better setup.
Our choices are to go the cloud hosting route or stick with real hardware. Real hardware is great but based on our budget, we'd struggle to get beyond dual core processors and around 8Gb ram. I have no experience of cloud servers, I'm the first to admit that. Either way, we ideally would need a managed LAMP setup (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHPMyadmin) so that we wouldn't have to worry about updates to the infrastructure underneath the site.
The site database is about 10Gb, images take up a lot of space (about 20Gb) and we'd need at least 100Gb of drive space for the site and development work.
Can members share their experiences of hosting and maybe recommend a host that could fulfil what we need at a reasonable cost? In the interests of transparency, I'm throwing this out there.
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