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AftComet
02-02-2009, 02:55 PM
Is the MYSQL size unlimited?:confused:
How many members will it support on the $6.95 plan?

How big can my forum get before I have to upgrade to VPS.
felgall
02-02-2009, 06:04 PM
That would depend on which forum software you use, what plugins you install (particularly any that cache pages to save their needing to be rebuilt for each visitor), how frequently your visitors actually visit etc.
Hamjat
02-03-2009, 10:51 PM
One thing about shared hosting is the biger your site become the more undesirable you become to the hosting company. You can get everything "unlimited" but the catch is "CPU" usage. You don't see CPU quota in any hosting package. That's the hidden devil.

...if you have the money you can go for a DS [dedicated server]
felgall
02-04-2009, 12:49 AM
...if you have the money you can go for a DS [dedicated server]

or a VPS (virtual private server) where you have what looks to be a complete server but which is actually shared with a handfull of others where each of you have your own virtual server you can do what you want with as if you had the entire server.