Where do most of you host your forums?

[AlexJ]

Unmanaged Dedicated Server. Pain when something goes wrong but alas you got to learn something.

[Woodsman]

Unmanaged Dedicated Server. Pain when something goes wrong but alas you got to learn something.

But isn't that the reason most of us are here?

[MikeSpears]

I currently run my forum on a colocated Dell PowerEdge R210 that I run a ton of other things on. I use VMWare ESXi as the bare metal OS, with a CentOS 6/cPanel Virtual Machine, and I've got a bunch of other virtual machines on the server

[AlexJ]

Are you running windows as main OS? I tried to run VMWare on windows OS and I/O usage was terrible.

[Aussie Cable]

VMWare ESXi is an OS (bare metal), it does not run on Windows.

[Bexit]

I'm using a Linux VPS: 5GB Ram and GenuineIntel, Intel® Xeon®CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz

I also run a game server which is integrated with my forums, which is why I require more ram.

[MikeSpears]

Are you running windows as main OS? I tried to run VMWare on windows OS and I/O usage was terrible.

ESXi is bare metal, you might be thinking of VMWare Server, which is a piece of crap.

[Steves Web Hosting]

After years of using a dedicated server I made the move to putting my own machines in different colo facilities late last year.

My main server uses an E3-1230 and a RAID 10 array, a chron job rsyncs the cPanel backup directory to a backup colo server thousands of miles away and through a different colo provider.

I'm liking the colo thing so far.

[MikeSpears]

Yea, Colo is awesome