<div dir="ltr">To answer Richard<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, I've been trying to get specific numbers on the CPU and RAM usage but have not found anything concrete as yet.<br><br>Thanks to everyone for suggestions thus far; they've been a great help. I'm going over them one at a time now...<br clear="all">
<br>======================<br>Jordan Peacock<br><a href="mailto:hewhocutsdown@gmail.com">hewhocutsdown@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com">hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Josh Paetzel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@tcbug.org">josh@tcbug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Monday 15 September 2008 12:10:21 pm Jordan Peacock wrote:<br>
> Any recommendations?<br>
><br>
> It's for an existing site that exceeds the CPU/RAM usage of some of the<br>
> lower-priced basic offerings from AN Hosting or GoDaddy (the shared virtual<br>
> servers). Not a heavy hard drive or bandwidth site. Currently paying<br>
> $150/quarter, looking to lower that as much as possible, as this is for a<br>
> non-profit organization that is on half of a shoe-string budget as it is.<br>
><br>
> Does it make sense to upgrade my internet connection and host it myself, or<br>
> go after a hosting company? Ideally I would like to administrate the server<br>
> as well and have it run Ubuntu or Debian, but I'm not hellbent on that.<br>
><br>
> ======================<br>
> Jordan Peacock<br>
> <a href="mailto:hewhocutsdown@gmail.com">hewhocutsdown@gmail.com</a><br>
> <a href="http://hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com" target="_blank">hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com</a><br>
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</div></div>You might take a look at Pajunas Interactive, which is fairly NPO friendly, is<br>
run by a drupal dev, is here in the Twin Cities, and hosts everything on<br>
FreeBSD, which is just like debian, only better. :)<br>
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