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I'm looking for suggestions for hosting solutions for a website.

Requirements are pretty simple:
Ability to host PHPBB 3 forum software
Have no advertisements
Be able to handle traffic of up to 5,000 visitors per day.
Be able to store however much data is generated by that many visitors making posts on a forum.


I don't care if it is paid or not.

So far I've looked at two options:
Slicehost and Network Solutions.

Network solutions appears to offer a much greater disk space and bandwidth limit for a competitive price...

Any other companies worth looking in to?
In response to Airjoe
Airjoe wrote:
Yes.

You're my hero
In response to AJX
AJX wrote:
Airjoe wrote:
Yes.

You're my hero

Twasn't nuthin speshul.
Personally, I'd suggest byethost.
The 'Fantastico type installer' should grant you an easy 'Instant PHPbb forum' set-up and 200 GB traffic a month leaves you with ~1.3 MB per visitor on a 5k hits a day base.
There are no advertisements, but you are free to use your own (if you want to). I have never handled a forum of that size, so I'm not sure if 5500 MB storage are enough, but that should be a considerable amount of postings, unless you allow attachments/avatars/signatures of unreasonable size.
AJX wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions for hosting solutions for a website.

Requirements are pretty simple:
Ability to host PHPBB 3 forum software
Have no advertisements
Be able to handle traffic of up to 5,000 visitors per day.
Be able to store however much data is generated by that many visitors making posts on a forum.


I don't care if it is paid or not.

So far I've looked at two options:
Slicehost and Network Solutions.

Network solutions appears to offer a much greater disk space and bandwidth limit for a competitive price...

Any other companies worth looking in to?

It depends a whole helluva lot on what you plan to do with it. Your specific needs would likely be best with the likes of Hostmonster or MDWeb, who offer shared web hosting with great specs with a tiny price tag (Hostmonster specifically has no disk space or bandwidth limit for $7 USD per month). Services like Slicehost are VPS and you basically get a clean-slate OS install to do what you will with, so it becomes your responsibility to do everything from install apache to setting up FTP access. The latter option ends up costing you a lot more ($20-40 USD per month) but you get full and complete root access to do anything you want with.