Web Hosting : Large phpbb forum, What do I need

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This web hosting thread started by Zoltrix on 10 November 2008

Im looking aquring a phpbb forum in the future here, and im looking at getting either a VPS or a dedicated server.

Heres what im looking at, its a phpBB based site that allows users to create a forum… the script will duplicate a phpbb database and insert all the tables required into the database, seperating them with prefixes ofcourse.

Currently the database it 13gb, contains 100,000+ tables… and the website pulls off about 3 million hits a month.

This IS a free site, revenue generated by ads on users sites… so the real question is. What sort of specs do I really need. I cant go off what the seller is running because they run several sites on the one server. I really wanted to sneak away with a VPS because then its managed and comes with Raid10… was thinking of a VPS of

512mb ram dedicated with 2048MB burstable. (shared quad CPU’s)

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