I'm thinking of starting up a forum and am not sure in the slightest how much of a hosting package I would need.
To make some over-generous guesses at how how much usage it would get say...
5000 visitors per day with a max of 500 at any one time.
Posting habits would likely be much like d-f with most occasional posters and a core contingent of chatty buggers.
Forum design would hopefully be nicely designed with good graphics.
Posts would be limited to text only with some smilies with no hosting of pics, files etc (these would have to be hosted elsewhere and linked to).
This is a big guess but likely maybe 300 posts per day.
For arguments sake say I would use vbulletin as I would guess it is the most resource hungry.
Any recommendations you can give to what sort of processing power/disk space/bandwidth I would need would be really appreciated. Also any recommendations of a good host with scalable plans would be nice too. I tried google but all i get is loadds of crap about hosting bargains.
Having thought things over i think I have really over-exaggerated most points on my requirements but I'd rather be on the safe side and have capacity to spare.
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