I have a VPS host right now with hostv...  just upgraded to

768MB ram w/ 2gb burstable

The site is much more stable now, but I have not been pleased with them.  So I am still looking to see if there are any other good VPS hosts out there for a better price.  Anyone hear anything about VPS.NET?  HostUpon.com looks pretty decent as well.

Hi Kevin,  I want thank you for clearing that up I was a bit confuse my self  about  the difference between the "number of users logged in at the same time" and the number of "simultaneous users".  

As iionly and others have suggested a I think all start off with VPS hosting.. Thanks for the responses everybody.. Great Community… :D 

This is a very good conversation. I am using Arvixe to start my elgg venture and I am happy with their customer service. I used ipower and their hosting was good for basic websites(no real traffic) but customer service always made me cringe.

I expect to destroy my basic package and look forward to the phone call from Arvixe saying I need to upgrade. 

I would like to think any host that is business minded would not shut you down but negotiate a solution and price that would handle your storage and bandwidth requirements. What would also be valuable is some forward thinking on tiers for expected growth. Shut me down without warning, poor performance or non competetive pricing and I put my elgg in a zip file and start shopping. I am hoping that Arvixe is a company that looks to grow with its customers.

At this point I would recommend Arvixe.

Arvixe is usually good for most kinds of hosting. I do not use them myself. I have used HostMonster Shared Hosting in the past - never any problems.. until I moved to three (heavy-duty) Dedicated Server boxes for the very very large Elgg site(s) (212K++ users) we have. Funny but I've had very little inquires on the side-line Hosting I offer off our servers ;-) We offer basically like 'shared' or vps style hosting - esp for Elgg based sites (since our specialty *is Elgg) for pretty much the price of normal hosting, but on our own dedicated servers and of course the backing of DeScoop and his Team/Elggalaxy.Com brain basket ;-) Anyone interested ? - Just send me a PM for details...

Arvixe won't shut down your site without warning. We always look for a solution for a problem with your site.

To help our customers we have forums, and online 24/7 support. We value our customers, and because of that, we created liaison programs to give a more personal tech support to our customers.

Rodolfo Hernandez

Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison

Hi Folks

I am trying to figure the best solution for a social web project in Elgg in which you can not anticipate the real users charge over the time. 

At first I thought that we can use a Cloud Computing Infraestructure approach like Amazon's one, 

http://community.elgg.org/pg/forum/topic/458061/amazon-elgg-virtual-machine/

http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=542992&group_guid=34434

but I recently found an specifically designed option for Elgg projects:

http://www.tmdhosting.com/elgg-cloud-hosting.html

Is there anyone who had been testing this Hosting Provider Plan?

Best regards