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The review of this web host was started by Groovystar on 2010-08-20 00:31:50:

My site is a forum and has been having issues with overage of Apache connexions and occasional memory overuse. Each time I go to my host and they make a few tweaks and the site goes back up, but this happens a few times a week.

Forum’s basic stats:

Usually 3,000 - 4,200 posts per day
240 - 270 members on daily, most users on at a time usually 80 to 90 daily

That’s the basic stats. If this was your forum would you think it needed a dedicated server? We are on a good VPS right now. We are preparing for an upgrade and theme change to eliminate a lot of coding problems, but my programmer hasn’t gotten back to me yet when I emailed him to let him know it’s ready to upgrade.

Anyway, what I am wondering is do we also need a server upgrade as well. At what point does a forum just need its own dedicated server. Like, what kind of server does this place run on?

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