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For a small forum that is not heavy, you don't need anything too wild. A good shared hosting or small VPS can work effectively as long as the host does not oversell. I’ve used Namecheap and Hostinger for small forums before and they worked perfectly fine.
But once your users start to grow, VPS is the best choice.
What do you guys recommend?

These days even a basic VPS package comes with $20 or more per month. If you try to run on VPS, it will come as a liability if your site is small. For small forums or websites, shared hosting is ok. However, you need to aim for better package, with more resources.

Admin wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 3:07 pm These days even a basic VPS package comes with $20 or more per month. If you try to run on VPS, it will come as a liability if your site is small. For small forums or websites, shared hosting is ok. However, you need to aim for better package, with more resources.

You can probably get a VPS even cheaper if you look around.

I guess so. But these cheaper packages come without web hosting control panel manager and if you are not much of techie, it will be very difficult to run your website.

For small forums, cloud-based shared hosting or entry-level VPS works best. They provide reliability, speed, and scalability at an affordable cost. Managed VPS adds control and isolation. Choose based on budget, technical skills, and expected forum growth.

$20:a mo isn't much in the US but in other nations $20 might be worth $100 in their own money, for instance.