Disk IO Performance
Mar 26, 2008From the Disk I/O performance is it better
1) to have main PHP file with 10 includes
2) all 11 files as one file
3) the difference is not big
Suppose
a) a low traffic site
b) a high traffice site
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Xen Disk IO Performance
Jun 19, 2007One of the things people seem to bring up a lot is disk IO Performance.
Why? Because theres little you can do about a customer being stupid and creating a disk swap nightmare.
There is however something you can do to reduce the impact across your clients, Have a separate raid array for swap space.
This does 2 things, it splits some of the Disk IO across 2 arrays, but more important it reduces the affect someone overusing there swap will have on the ones that are not.
Just my quick 10 cents for the day.
Dramatically Increase Your Performance Of Web Server By Disk Cache
Jun 22, 2009it took me one year to develop the disk cache tool which can dramatically boost your host and save your harddisk. it is like supercache,but more cheap and better speed.
check picture to see what it can do.
i will offer free download to test the tool by first 10 people. if u host huge traffic website, do not hesitate to try it. i already test it for half a year. it is time to publish it. pm me or post here to get free download.
i open to any opinion about the tool.
400GB Hard Disk Drives In RAID 0, RAID 5 And RAID 10 Arrays: Performance Analysis
Mar 7, 2007Quote:
Today we are going to conduct a detailed study of RAIDability of contemporary 400GB hard drives on a new level. We will take two "professional" drives from Seagate and Western Digital and four ordinary "desktop" drives for our investigation. The detailed performance analysis and some useful hints on building RAID arrays are in our new detailed article.
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JaguarPC Performance VS. LiquidWeb Performance
Jul 13, 2007I am using dreamhost host 3 of my web sites and 1 blog. Dreamhost is great, offers alot space and bandwidth.
but I think they are oversellling their space, sometimes it gets really slow. (overselling ? ok, I dont really know, but sometimes its really slow, and most my asian readers said need to refresh to load the page. I am wondering if theres a way to check if they are overselling or not.)
I am thinking about buying vps, even tho, I still got 5 month left with dreamhost.
I found 2 vps companies are highly recommanded on this forum, JaguarPC and LiquidWeb.
theres already a post compared both companies in terms of price and service. I say I will pick JagarPc, cuz, its basic plan just 20 USD, and htey got promotion now, its even cheaper. and basic Liquidweb vps plan is 60 bucks.
I am wondering why Jagarpc is so cheap , are they overselling? how can we check if they are overselling.
I found a few posts saying how good jaguarPc is. and they are not overselling, but those members just signed up this month, and only have 1-3 posts. I cannot really trust those new members.
Can someone share their experience with JaguarPC? compare JaguarPc performance and liquidweb performance. antoher question is switch from dreamhost to JaguarPC basic vPS plan, will performance gets better?
last question: VPS account allows 3 IP, 3ip = 3 domains? if not, how many domains can I have?
Use Almost Disk Space Will Harm Hard Disk
Apr 29, 2008My server has a small SAS disk(about 73G), if I use 90% diskspace of it, is it good idea, will it harm the physical HDD?
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Jan 8, 2009I am looking for better disk performance. Due to the tight budget, I have to choose one of following options as my disk choice:
2 SATAII disk w/RAID0, 7200rpm, 32M cache for each disk
1 SAS disk, 15000rpm, 16M cache.
which one will be better and how better if other things(hardware & OS) are same?
Disk Image To Disk Partition (Xen)
Sep 1, 2008can a Xen disk image be converted to a diskpartition?
Someone is asking whether I can host his disk image at his current host, which he is leaving for poor I/O (wonder why that would be ). I can host a diskimage, but I don't like diskimages (slow, and 100GB isn't very 'comfortable' either). Is there any way out there to convert a disk image into a normal partition?
Apache :: Use Disk To Enhance For Page Cache And Database Cache For Disk
Apr 24, 2013I use apache with CentOS VPS hosting for my blog. I only host one blog in this VPS account. I have 1.5GB RAM and I have 7, 500 page preview per day. My page loading time is 2-3 seconds (according to the pingdom tool).
I want to know what is the best performance (faster web page loading) W3 Total cache option for VPS hosting blog. Currently I use Disk to enhance for page cache and database cache for disk.
MS SQL Performance
Sep 7, 2008We run a very busy web application written in .net . The backend is SQL 2005. The server running SQL for this web app is slammed constantly. CPU is red lined, and the disks are queuing up because they cant keep up with the demand. What I am wondering is what do the big websites do to gain performance? What direction should we start moving in to get ahead of the curve. We are using an HP DL 580 with 4 x quad core xeons and the fastest SAS drives we could get.
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May 12, 2008Any rumors known already?
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Dec 10, 2007Does anyone have experience using LVM2? We'd rely on hardware RAID mirroring for the underlying physical redundancy, but we're very interested in LVM2's storage virtualization features.
If anyone can share their experiences with LVM2 with regards to performance and possibly use in a SAN environment,
VPS Performance
Apr 20, 2007Hypothetical Scenario:
Let's say I've got a single website built in Drupal (using PHP and MySQL). It gets less than a 1,000 visits per day and needs very little storage or bandwidth. The site is currently on a shared host and it runs okay, but often has very slow page loads due to sluggish MySQL calls and other traffic on the server. Sometimes the homepage loads in 2s but other times it takes 20-30s depending on time of day. The client is sick of this performance on such a low traffic site and wants to improve the situation.
Question: Will a VPS really provide that much better performance than a shared host?
Remember I'm talking ONLY about page load time under minimal load. No need to take into account scaling or Digg/Slashdot effects.
I know dedicated is the best option but it seems crazy for such a low traffic site. A lot of the VPS offers are very attractive in theory (managed and affordable) but in practice I'm concerned that even a 512MB VPS with 1GB burst won't make much of a performance difference.
Mainly I don't want to go to the hassle and extra monthly expense of moving everything to a VPS for only a minimal gain.
Godaddy VPS With Low Performance
May 2, 2007We shifted one website based on Article Dashboard (its an article directory script coded in Zend) to a Godaddy VPS ($35 per month) from a shared hosting account with hostgator.
This VPS is really slow compared to hostgator account.
Can anyone tell what we should do?
RAID 5/6 Performance
Sep 30, 2009Im planning on buying a NAS from my provider for using as a backend to my VPSes (around 15). The plan is to put the server images on the NAS so the VPSes can be moved without interruption between different nodes.
The server i have looked on so far is the following:
CPU: Xeon 3330 2,67Ghz
RAM: 4GB DDR2
HDD: 8*Barracuda 7200.12 1000GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, SATA-II
RAID: 3Ware 9650SE
Network: Intel 2*1Gbit
Would it be enough to fill the Gbit-line?
The budget is pretty tight so if it's possible to do this with SATA drives it would be great, otherwise it could be a possibilty to go down in diskspace and switch the SATA drives to SCSI/SAS drives.
VPS Performance / Server
Apr 12, 2009We are getting into VPS hosting and wanted to get some opinions and feedback as we're quite unsure on what to expect as for performance and how many clients we can generally keep on a box.
For now we've bought 3 dell R710 with dual Xeon L5520, 72GB ram and 8 x 2.5" SAS drives.
We are thinking of a base offering of 512 megabytes of ram and
was hoping to get about 40-50 onto a server.
With 40 there should be -plenty- free ram and plenty drivecache.
Then a next offering of 1 gig ram and next one of 2 gigs.
Even if we do the biggest 2 gig offering with 25 on a server we should have free ram to spare.
The software would be virtuozzo.
Any thoughts on this, am I expecting too much, or am I being fairly realistic?
Poor Xen Performance
Nov 7, 2009I have been working with Xen over the last week or so and I can't figure out why the performance is downgraded so much when booting into Xen. There are certain things that seem just as fast but other things just don't seem normal.
I have tried this on two different quad-core systems, one new generation (York) with CentOS5 and one old (Kent) with Debian Lenny but neither seem to produce good speeds.
For example, when I use the default kernels I can usually get about ~600 score out of unixbench-wht and things such as top and core systems show up as 0% cpu when running top.
When I boot into Xen kernel however, whether it been from Dom0 or the guest OS, top uses about 3% CPU and unixbench-wht produces scores under 250.
I have set vcpus to 4 and have even tried vcpu-pin 0 0, 1 1, 2 2, 3 3 but nothing seems to be changing anything. The disk speeds seem about the same (hdparm). I'm assuming it is something with the CPU,
Performance Of 2 X 1TB RAID1
Feb 7, 2009I have to leave the Supermicro servers and use only Dell. I have this question.
There is a big difference in performance between these two RAID configurations?
Dell - 2 x 1TB RAID1 PERC6
Supermicro - 4 x 500GB RAID10 3ware 4 port
It is for use with webhosting.
Performance -VPS Setup
Nov 6, 2009I need some advice on my situaton at my host, and possibly some frame of reference as to what can/should be expected from a VPS setup like mine and what I can expect it to manage.
I have a site that sees some traffic of about 150k pageviews per day. On any given day, it peaks for roughly a timespan of 4 hours per day where there may be about 5 req/s.
I use a standard setup (LAMP) running mod_php in Apache, not fast cgi. I have a VPS on Virtuozzos Power Panel that has 1,5 GB RAM and really an unkonwn amount of CPU. I haven't been able to ascertain that information but probably could if I asked my host.
The problem is that during these hours it gets a bit slow from time to time. Running TOP shows sometimes a staggering amount of waiting processes i.e. the load is quite high (15 - 25).
So, I'm now really at a fork in the road where I either start looking into going with a different setup, say Nginx + PHP-FPM (FCGI) and try to see if that makes a difference. I'm not really an admin so I would be kind of lost on that. I could also start looking into my code to see if I can cache more or do smarter stuff etc.
However, before doing any of the above, I'd like to ask this crowd here if you think that I've sort of hit the roof on what can be expected from a VPS of the size I just told you about. That my situation is quite normal and that the real solution is actually just to upgrade my VPS. Is it?
Scaling Performance
Apr 14, 2009Lets assume that we (me and the people I'm working with) were to launch a really powerful website. Then all of a sudden there is more demand for the website than the backend infrastructure can handle.
What do we do?
- 1000 users (ok so one powerful server should be enough).
- 2000 users (lets setup an additional server to work as the HTTP while the powerful server acts as the database only).
- 3000 users (lets eliminate all the commercial linux programs and install a fresh version of linux on both boxes and compile only the programs we need).
- 5000 (lets setup another server that handles the sessions).
- 6000 (lets setup a static-only server to deliver the non-dynamic content).
- 7000 (lets do some caching ... ugh maybe it won't be enough).
Any greater and what? We've run out of ideas on how to separate the code logic and how to optimize every byte of data on the website! What do we do? We can buy more servers, but how do we balance the load?
This is where I'm stuck at. In the past I've separated the load in a modular sense (one server does this and one server does that), but eventually I'll come across a wall.
how clustering works? What I wanna know is how is the information, whether it be the server-side code or the static information, is shared across machines. Is it worth it anymore to learn these things, or is it worth it just to host with a scalable hosting solution like AWS?
7200 Rpm HDD Vs. 10k Rpm HDD Performance
Aug 22, 2008How much faster is a 10k rpm HDD vs a 7200 rpm HDD in a server environment?
IMO, a 7200 rpm HDD is much faster than 5400 rpm HDD when it comes down to desktop PCs..
Just wondering if it's worth upgrading to a 10k rpm HDD from a 7200 rpm HDD and losing about 1TB of storage as well...
(Comparing specifically 2 750GB 16mb cache 7200rpm SATA 2 HDD RAID 1 with 2 150GB 16mb cache 10krpm HDD in RAID 1)
Performance Benchmark
Feb 19, 2008I have several VPS's that I run. Some run LAMP, others RoR, and my latest runs with Nginx + Cherrypy (python).
To be honest, I've never run any benchmarks to see how well the servers performed under stress. But I'd like to start.
Are there are good (free) programs out there that will stress test my web servers? I develop on windows, but deploy on linux, so either platform is ok. I'm most interested in how many concurrent connections can be maintained.
Joomla + VPS Performance
Dec 9, 2008I currently have a VPS in the UK that I host my clients joomla sites off and the specs of this VPS server are as below:
- 20 GB SA-SCSI Disk Space
- 350GB bandwidth
- Full root access / Parallels/WHM/cPanel
- 2 Dedicated IPs
- 384 MB SLM RA
I am now running around 10 joomla based sites off of this VPS, 5-6 of which are Ecommerce based sites. Whilst I am probably only using 10gb of the overall disk-space so far, in terms of performance, should I continue to add clients to this server or should I keep the more hungry sites on this server and move some of the less resource intensive non-ecommerce sites to another VPS? Or would it be in my best interest to upgrade to a Dedicated server where I will have all my own resources?
Performance Levels Between USA And UK
Apr 17, 2008I’m moving my web server from the US to the UK.
Would I be roughly right in assuming that an American customer accessing a UK server will see similar speeds to what I have been getting as a UK customer accessing the same site on a US server?
RAID Performance?
Jul 25, 2008Is there any RAID performance decrease if per say you have a 24-RAID 3ware hardware card and you already have a 6x RAID partion on RAID 5 but then you are now adding per say 18x of HDD and your going to make it to another partion of RAID 5 does the performance stay the same or decrease?
The question as to why you would have different RAID partions is because if you were to buy a 8U you would want it as an investment to avoid buying smaller cases to eliminate the amount of money on new motherboard/cpu/ram per each system and add hard drives whenever you can and RAID them.
Staminus Performance
Jun 2, 2008I am currently working with an internet radio station, it is currently listed in iTunes and we are pushing about 90mbps from a ecatel server during the day. We are expanding and are looking to pick up more capacity and were considering doing Geolocating for generating playlist so listeners would get the closest relay to them. Staminus has excellent pricing on unmetered connections so we were looking into them to use for a US provider.
I have searched the forum and haven't found many reviews on their unmetered connections, more on the DDoS protection. Does anyone have any recent experiences with their unmetered connections they have been offering with great prices?
RAID 0 Performance
Oct 24, 2008A couple sources with RAID performance numbers:
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RAID 0 is the fastest by far, excluding RAID 10 on the F2 layout (which is significantly faster than RAID 10).
Do these numbers match up with your experience?
I haven't been able to find any dedicated servers with RAID 10 F2, so this doesn't seem to be a viable option.
Apache Performance
Jun 14, 2008my server load is max 1,it wont cross more than 1 but for 2 days iam getting 20 or more,but this load is extents for 1 or 2 min only after that it become normal to 0.58 around 1,in top i can able to see lotz apachi process when the load increase,
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Apr 17, 2008Does anyone have any experience running Juniper SSG-550 firewalls in a high-traffic hosting environment?
I run network operations for a hosting provider in Australia. We currently have two J4350s running as border routers, and we are looking at putting two Juniper SSG-550s behind the border routers to do stateful firewalling / NAT.
We'll be using active/active NSRP on the SSGs for load balancing and failover.
My concern is that these devices may not be able to handle our traffic load. They have a hard-set limit of 256,000 "concurrent sessions" which may not be enough for us in peak times. Almost all of our traffic is HTTP though, so I would imagine sessions would timeout quite quickly?
SAS Vs SATA II Performance
Nov 26, 2008On a normal shared hosting server, what kind of performance gains can you see using a SAS drive instead of a SATA II in raid-1?
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