Dear Rick
> I have had around 450 students in my moodle,
> and I have run around 30 courses so far.
>
Surely you're not getting a good performance with $68 per year to cater to the load of 450 students and 30 courses right?
May I know what type of hosting you're using with the current setup of number of students and course that you now have?
Are you using Shared hosting, Virtual Private Server or (wow!) Dedicted Server?
I am asking because I just subscribed to a local (Malaysian-based) web host, using shared hosting. I'm not too impressed with the performance (maybe it's my college's Broadband line that's the limitation) even with a computer lab session size of only 20 concurrent users(!). I wish I could subscribe for a dedicated host, but the monthly cost is beyond me...unless of course all my colleagues get onto Moodle and are willing to share the annual dedicated server hosting costs.
Frankie Kam
Melaka, Malaysia
http://www.moodleace.com