Date: 08/20/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, hosting

My friends and I have a website.. a community of sorts for about 50 people. It has a chatroom, a calendar of events, blogs, photo galleries, etc.

It's written quite efficiently, but:

Hosting companies don't like the load that it supposedly taxes their shared servers with (the load is probably larger than that of a portion of other users, but it's nothing outstanding).

So our current host, 1and1, is pushing us toward a dedicated server solution.

This is kinda nuts, because it's a site just for our group of friends. Our webmaster would not want to dish out his own money for a dedicated server, and collecting fees from friends every month would not really work.

Any suggestions are welcome. We're considering different things, some along the lines of running our own server from someone's house (the details of renting a dedicated line, etc. are sketchy.) Some about moving to a different host (but here we're not sure if the same thing will happen again.)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/235723.html