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All the info I've given you was right out of the stats page. I'm being told I will need a VPS eventually, when the forum out grows a shared service. The thing is, I don't know when the forum will flatten out. I'm still getting new users everyday and more and more people are on it on a daily basis. I'll keep on searching and try to get as much info as I can. I think I'm also talking to you on webhostingtalk. I went there for help. I don't mind about no phone support. I never really used it before, I was just using that as an example that my current service told me I couldn't call or try to get chat support or anything. A decision I need to make, soon. And thank you.

Just hearing that comforts me. My forum was blindly shut down with no notice or anything. And they even said due to the technical nature of this problem you cannot call or email for help, you must only go through the open ticket. It was like I was a cattle being funneled for slaughter. Right now my site has 30 active users on it right now, and it is only 2 months old and growing. I may even have to look into a small VPS possibly. I don't know, it is hard to know what to do. Me giving you those stats, would you recommend a shared hosting account? Here are some more stats....maybe will help in answering me. For the month of January Unique visitors 4.661 Number of visits 19.202 Pages 839,595 Hits 1,460,466 Bandwidth 4GB Also, thank you.

Well, let me ask this then. My forum has 1200 users right now, and really only 100 or less are really active every day. Bandwidth for last month was 4GB, and usually there are 10-18 users on at the same time. Those particular stats are quite small, right? This is the kind of forum I'll be hosting and have been looking at several hosting providers and trying to make a decision fairly quickly. What confuses me is my current hosting service (site5.com) throws me red flags and shuts my forum down all the time saying I've reached too many resource points. I keep telling them it is just a small forum, no scripts are running, there must be something wrong with how you calculate your resource points. Of course they don't even listen to that and just tell me to upgrade to a $950/year account (I'm at $150/yr now) or be shut down. I just didn't want the same type of thing happening again and this is why I'm asking the questions. Site5.com did also have a community based forum where people would ask questions, complain, all that. They were of course shut down. Once that happened, I knew things would just be volume, volume, volume. Thanks, Mike

I am currently with a shared hosting service that is driving me nuts. They have been overselling too much and service has gotten lousy. I have been with them for many years. I've done nothing with my domains basically except host some pictures for my family and stuff like that. Just recently I started an SMF forum. Within 2 months of starting my forum I had my hosting company shutting me down saying I used too many resource points and need to upgrade! I told them I'm just running a forum with no scripts or jobs running, that's it. They basically responded with prices on upgrades to their other service. They are trying to lock me down and force me to pay more money. I have been told by many people a shared hosting service can handle multiple forums very easily on one account. Is this true with MDDHosting as well? It's all text based, PHP...that's it. Also with my current hosting service I'm able to setup more domains (shared resources) with my account. Kind of like a reseller account. Is this possible here? Does each domain get it's own cpanel or something? How are the added domains controlled? And one more final question. Does MDDhosting oversell? I see on your reseller accounts you have overselling enabled, which means plugging as many people as you can on a box and hope things run smoothly. How does this affect me? Thank you.