What specs would you ask for?

[Roenick]

If you were building a Web site with 10-12 pages, moderate graphic content, software patch downloads, and a vBulletin software forum with a potential community of 3000 users...

two questions:

1) what would you ideally like to have in terms of hardware/software/bandwidth?

2) what would be the minimum you would need?

 

[adam_uk]

3000 registered users

it depends how many are on at anyone time

bandwith that would depend entirely on how many graphics, how big how many hits etc etc

get a suffecnent ammount of bandwith remember you can always upgrade/downgrade

software i would recomend cpanel, linux box

hardware
as much ram as you can get (id say about a gb)
id say a 80gb hdd maybe more depending on the site and database sizes
cpu, a p4 2.* ghz with HT will be suitable

 

[MikeChristopher]

To start off with i doubt you would need to invest in your own server..

Do you have the member base already or do you just think you can get that many people on - if you do have that member base then possibly looking at a semi-dedicated would do to start with, if not you could do with just a mid priced shared hosting plan and work your way up.

 

[Brian]

if you alreayd have that member base, dedicated would be way to go if they are active, if potentially could get that big, start with shared, and upgrade as you need to

 

[matrics]

Hmm... hostrocket.com have a nice package on sale - 1500mb space, 50GB rollover BW. And they`re very reliable. They also offer dedicated servers, I think

 

[identity_00]

Start little for under 35 yearly and simply upgrade when needed.
Upgrading can be done with just a couple of clicks from your hosting provider when asked. No big deal - and nothing is required on your part (except paying more of course).