I did something somewhat retarded I guess and got hosting at godaddy. So I'm looking for a decent web host at a decent price. I looked at nearlyfreespeech and when I get more people on the site and more space to fill up then it gets pretty pricey and I'm looking for something like singlehop where the prices are affordable and the space and bandwidth are just as good. But they have to be able to do adult content, if they can't it's no good and I'm not going to give them my money. Simple as that. I'll check and see if singlehop allows adult content.
I'm kind of a noob to the whole hosting thing and I really have no idea of what I need and when I have to move a step up (in hosting terms). I have around 30 something total boards going up, including notes, and a couple kareha boards with images.
I don't really understand how many people can be on all boards at once untilled I have to go dedicated.
I know I am going to have to sooner or later get a dedicated server, that's not really a question as much as a fact. I just want to put my money in the right hands of someone who isn't going to trip on my scripts and how much space I'm taking up. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to take up that much space either. it's all user generated content any how.
So any suggestions would be helpful.
dreamhost wrote me back after I ask if I'd have to pay them extra so that they can set up imagemagick and everything that's on their shared or vps servers. They wrote back and said that everything that's on the lesser servers will be on the dedicated servers which makes me kind of happy.
I don't really see the reason to start off with one board, I'd much rather go all out and just plop them, or most of them down at once with a couple notes boards and a kereha. I know 4chan.org started out with just /b/ but that was a while ago.
The only thing I'm tripping on is people moderating that won't give out my info. I'll figure it out soon enough.
OK fine I'll go to sign up with dreamhost. rabble, rabble, rabble.
singlehop just seems too legal like they'd tell on you themselves.
I hosted with hostgator a couple years ago and I didn't have the internet for 3 months. Went to go check out the site and it was down. stupid internet posting things they shouldn't.
nearlyfreespeech seems a little too pricy for someone whose going to pay for this all by themselves. if I have 20gigs of data on a HD and had a monthly bandwidth of 10gigs it would come out to about 200 bucks. I don't think so. For that I could get a 1TB server with 12gigs of ram and 4 or so cores.
OK I just give in dreamhost. I'm out of energy on this front.