To answer Richard There are about 7 unique sites that, ideally, I would put on the same host. But if push comes to shove, there is only 1 of them that is really the resource hog. It isn't too bad with bandwidth (25 GB/month was the heaviest) but on a shared virtual server at the existing hosting company it was eating up more than 10% of the CPU/RAM so it got moved to it's own VPS. Unfortunately, I've been trying to get specific numbers on the CPU and RAM usage but have not found anything concrete as yet. Thanks to everyone for suggestions thus far; they've been a great help. I'm going over them one at a time now... ====================== Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2008 12:10:21 pm Jordan Peacock wrote: > > Any recommendations? > > > > It's for an existing site that exceeds the CPU/RAM usage of some of the > > lower-priced basic offerings from AN Hosting or GoDaddy (the shared > virtual > > servers). Not a heavy hard drive or bandwidth site. Currently paying > > $150/quarter, looking to lower that as much as possible, as this is for a > > non-profit organization that is on half of a shoe-string budget as it is. > > > > Does it make sense to upgrade my internet connection and host it myself, > or > > go after a hosting company? Ideally I would like to administrate the > server > > as well and have it run Ubuntu or Debian, but I'm not hellbent on that. > > > > ====================== > > Jordan Peacock > > hewhocutsdown at gmail.com > > hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com > > You might take a look at Pajunas Interactive, which is fairly NPO friendly, > is > run by a drupal dev, is here in the Twin Cities, and hosts everything on > FreeBSD, which is just like debian, only better. :) > > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel > > PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080915/85ad318e/attachment-0001.htm