What capacity do I need?

[TwoonTwo]

I need help please.

The activity on my web site is currently:
Sessions/visitors per day: 2,000-2,500
Pageviews per day: 15,000
Bytes transferred per day 270 MB
Disk space used is about 900 MB

My web site is a community web site with an active forum/message board with about 20,000 posts.
Usually within a 90 minute span there are about 100 to 150 forum visitors. High was 226.

Currently I am getting a MySQL error of too many connections, or a 504 time out error.I use Verio as my host and I have their top shared hosting plan which is 1000 GB monthly data transfer and 40 GB disk space. Their tech support is suggesting I switch to a VPS to combat this issue.

If it helps I use UBB Threads 6.5.4.

Thanks,
Ivan

[edited by: txbakers at 2:47 am (utc) on Oct. 18, 2006]
[edit reason] removed personal website address [/edit]

[carguy84]

Well, that's the problem with shared hosting...you're sharing resources. Dedicated hosting is decently priced, or a good VPS solution.

[txbakers]

I would start shopping around for a dedicated server where you are the sole user.

They are not that expensive these days, and it really helps.