05-20-2017, 11:45 AM
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Founder / Administrator
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Boise, Idaho
Posts: 928
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Re: Outgrown server
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Originally Posted by SVXdc
As for your server here -- Since the traffic volume here has dropped, why not switch to a web host and free yourself of the care and feeding of your own hardware? I signed up for a deal several years back for a lifetime 50% discount, and have been paying ~$22 per YEAR for "unlimited" shared basic hosting. Similar discounts are still offered regularly (particularly around Black Fridays).
What are you paying currently for your data, plus extra expenses to maintain the hardware (e.g,. electricity, extra air conditioning, etc.)?
What capabilities would you need from a web host to run this site?
Is there any reason you couldn't do that?
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For the most part, the issue isn't bandwidth (sometimes we spike), but the issue is the 47 gig combined database table sizes. I have not seen shared hosting for $22/year that get along with that well. The other issue is that shared hosting servers offer a mix of PHP and MySQL capabilities and and some or most have some safe modes enabled that don't work well for some of the add ons for photo uploads and such.
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