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The review of this web host was started by anirban_das on 2010-01-22 02:33:09:

I am planning to open a vBulletin forum. The expected stats in 6 months time frame is : 15k threads, 3 lakh posts and 2500 members.
We would be having a traffic of 15-20 users/guests at a time & max 70-80 users/guests at any given time.
Would it be ok to start with shared server? I am actually worried abt the CPU usage thing as space & b/w would not be an issue.
I enquired hostgator as well as urljet (as recommended in many threads here) for the same and they asked to start with shared server.
Please help me what should i do as VPS servers are a bit costly to start with but would be ok after 6 months.

Also recommend some good hosts.
I can also post the link of a forum for example. (didn’t posted as i didn’t wanted to advertise any forum here).

awaiting response.

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