Hosting For Mid Size Community
Dec 11, 2008
I own a parenting site, mid-sized I think (1100 members). We were recently "fired" by our host for server load. Sooo, I'm in the market for a new host. I'm so gun shy right now, because everyone is reassuring me they can handle us, but then so did the company that we're currently with.
Specs:
Phpbb3 software
Bandwith - 17.7gb so far this month
Disk Space - 111.3 mb this month
There are an average of 100 members on line at a time. I've been told we need a dedicated server by some, though I don't think we're big enough at this venture for one, and it's out of our budget. I realize the things I listed above don't have much to do with server load, but I figured I'd share anyway.
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Jul 22, 2007
We have built a social comunity website like myspace, hi5, facebook etc. Can you please suggest what kind of hosting plan should we host on. We have developed the site using Windows Technoligies.
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Aug 14, 2008
One of our resellers has an account.. When looking into cpanel, it says that that account is using 3300megs. When we go into the ftp of that account, in reality it is only using 1.3megs. This is a huge difference! Most of folders are empty.
We are using the latest version of WHM and Cpanel.
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May 28, 2009
I run a small forum of (100-200) users that belong to a photographic community.
I now have it running off my personal hosting account that I have with dreamhost.
I pay around USD 90-100.
Its an ok account, as I have unlimited domains, databases, even disk space I undesrstand.
The idea is to move it on a hosting account of its own.
I just want an advice for a company and a price, around the same margins, that I can move it too.
As I said above, there are around 100-150 users, with prospects of it going up but not very much. They also upload images on a daily basis, so disk space and reliability in that area (i know backups are usually my responsability but anyway) are important.
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May 30, 2008
I am starting a social networking website that will give people the ability to have their own pages and upload videos to the site. The site is geared towards a specific niche, but has the potential to be very large and receive a lot of videos and traffic.
We are looking at different web developers and one is saying that we should go with a dedicated server with 500GB of disk space and 1500 GB of bandwidth.
The other developer is suggesting we go with a company that hosts media content and you only pay a low monthly charge and then the additional charges are based on number of video views per month. That way we don't have to worry about additional servers and this grows with us.
I am very confused, because it can get quite costly the more views we get, but they keep telling me it is cheaper than going with dedicated servers.
I'm trying to figure out how much can be held on a dedicated server with the above specifications and how much traffic/video views can it handle at one time.
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Aug 25, 2008
I've got my new hosting provider choice narrowed down to two providers (ServIt & WiredTree) for a Managed VPS. From the reviews here they both seem to be very similiar in customer support and reliability. The only difference I have found is that ServIt does have a community forum and WiredTree does not have a forum. It's wierd to be choosing a hosting provider based on this, so I thought I would come get your opinions on this.
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Jan 13, 2008
Has anyone had issues with Level3 honoring their discard community recently (3556:9999)? We had to null 2 IPs earlier in the week. The first one they didn't pick up the route when advertised via BGP (or if they did, it took hours). We ended up having to call and get them to filter it manually. The second IP we were able to null route fine using BGP. Now we have another IP being attacked and it looks like Level3 isn't going to pick up the route and discard traffic.
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Jul 9, 2008
I've had four different hosts in 1½ year, and I'm noe experiencing problems again with my current host, Lunarpages. Therefore, I really want to make the right choice this time. It would be such a pleasure to see my website run without any problems for more than just 8-9 months at a time...
Anyway, let me try to describe it. It's based on the Content Management System phpFusion. It has news, downloads, forums and screenshots. The site itself is c. 2 GB large (because of forum attachments and screenshots), the download section is c. 15 GB, and the site use up about 700 GB og bandwidth each month. In the forum, there's 100.000 posts, growing day for day, of course. We have 12.000 registered members, but we only have c. 50 members online at the same time -- maximum. Throughout a week, 2.000 members log in, but as said, they are never online at the same time. The members are mostly from Europe, but we do also have members from USA and Australia.
I've had both Lunarpages and Servage as hosts, but I have experienced problems with both of them. Servage has a daily bandwidth limit which I had overlooked, and the website constantly exceeded this. Lunarpages is very, very slow when using a MySQL DB.
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Jul 20, 2007
We have some Cisco servers that are being administrated by Affant. I recently downloaded a network management tool called SolarWinds and it looks really interesting and amazing because it can do so much for network monitoring. It seems that it needs not only the IP address for out server, but also a Community String. I tried the basic defaults (private, public) but they will not connect. I researched online and found some other defaults for a 3COM network, but none of those worked either.
I was going to try and telnet through to the server but port 23 (default telnet port) is closed. Im sure its for security purposes. I also read online that if I used a packet sniffer, I would be able to sniff out packets which hed the community string in them.
However, I could not find a sniffer which would actually do this. Any suggestions on a good packet sniffer that could do this?
Also, If the telnet port is closed, is there any other way I could telnet into the server on a different port? Or maybe use some other way to access the server?
I really want to use this program but I dont think my corperate office would like us to be monitoring it using this third party software, but us IT people dont really care...
If there is anything you can help out with, it would be most appreciated.
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Apr 6, 2008
A community website with a forum(phpbb3), not more than 2000 users, less than 50 posts per day and less than 50 users online at the same time, will be ok to host under a shared account?
If the bandwith is lower than the limit, is it possible to use many resources and get susbended?
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Oct 6, 2007
How much dedicated (and burstable) RAM would one need for a community site that averages 60 signed users for its performance to be good?
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Apr 29, 2009
Past shared hosting deals we been trying out sucks. We are a community forum that just started but know we will grow a big database in the future. We want to prepare now and have no problems. It's a LOCAL Radio-Control (R/C) forum.
What VPS Host would you guys recommend that handles forums well? So far, I broke down to WiredTree.com.
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Jan 17, 2007
as you know we can use followins to back up db
1- HMS [(hosting Managemen Script = cPanel / Plesk/vDeck]
2-phpmyadmin adn 3.th party script
3-SSH/Telnet
but why db size is differrent after backing-up?
db in server is for example 120MB
When i use SSH to back up db is 75MB
// // phpmyadin-------------120 mb
HMS ---------------------110MB
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Oct 4, 2009
what size stripe size people are using on their web servers on their raid setups?
Larger, or smaller considering the nature of web based files being smaller.
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Jan 6, 2009
I am hosting 80 domains on a dedicated server which is dishing up only about 80GB per month in bandwidth. Disk space is minimal at under 20GB. Sites are mostly PHP5 and MySQL. Some Perl. Using apache2.
Right now the server is a dual Opteron and it seems to be overkill for the job at hand. In an effort to lower my monthly cost I am wondering how small of a server I can go with and still allow some margin for only minimal growth.
Dare I go as small as one of these (from cheapest to most $):
1.7 Pentium 4 and 512 RAM, IDE
Athlon 3000+ and 1GB RAM, SATA
2.8 Pentium D and 1GB RAM, SATA
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Jul 11, 2008
Used chirpy's method
/etc/init.d/chkservd stop
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
umount /var/tmp
umount /tmp
replace "256000" "512000" -- /scripts/securetmp
rm /usr/tmpDSK
/scripts/securetmp --auto
cd /tmp
ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
/etc/init.d/mysql start
/etc/init.d/chkservd start
df
Problem
[root@host ~]# umount /tmp
umount: /tmp: device is busy
umount: /tmp: device is busy
[root@cmee34 ~]# lsof | grep /tmp
sshd 6650 root 9u unix 0xf57fe300 24988 /tmp/ssh-SDVLUi6650/agent.6650
If I killall -9 sshd, I got obviously logged out of ssh. I need to make /tmp 1GB instead of the current 500MB it is now.
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Jul 30, 2008
I seem to be hitting the tcpsndbuf max size occasionally, my host says they can not change it (there is plenty of free ram) and if I want it raised, I need to upgrade to a larger plan.
Was just curious as to what kind of tcpsndbuf size you guys have on your VPS plans?
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Nov 2, 2008
I have an issue of overload on my server running just a wordpress blog. I described my problem here :p=5384916
my website is situated on a folder named xxxx/public_html/
Now I discovered a folder named logs. its path is xxxx/logs
there is 2 files on it:
access.log ( 19 GB )
and error.log ( 31 Mb )
is it a relationship between my server overload and my access.log big size?
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Feb 14, 2008
I have never been to a datacenter. My friend has a rack at a datacenter near my house so he will be able to provide me some space for a monthly payment. At first I thought of getting a 1U server but it ended up costing too much and a hassle to find the proper sized parts. Now I have decided to go with a mini tower instead so I was wondering whether it would make a difference if I were to use a mini tower or a larger sized tower. If I used a mini would I be able to fit more computers or would it not make a difference?
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Aug 17, 2007
So I got the dedicated server.
Now, when I upload files to my server, some files upload fine but most upload but with 0 file size. That's weird. What can cause this? I used 3 FTP clients same results also no passive mode..
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Oct 25, 2009
I manage a high traffic website on one of my dedicated servers. It currently serves around 2 million uniques/mo.
In time, due to page changes, around 200 important URIs got a redirect [L,R=301] in the main .htaccess file that's sitting on the root directory.
Redirects are in the form of : person/J/James_Blake_2000/ --> /user/James_Blake/
Thus, the .htaccess file has reached well above 200 lines.
I would like to kindly ask for advice: should I limit the dimension of this htaccess file ?
How do you guys treat these permanent redirects?
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Jun 18, 2009
how to have full size images in my DH (dreamhost) gallery2?
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Jun 18, 2009
what kind of bandwidth i need and what kind of space i need for a site that experiences about 25000 hits a month and file size of about 700mb. the site is purely content and images and correspondence is done by forms.
i dont want to go to big but also dont want to under size my customer as uptime and speed is important (im looking at dedicated servers)
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Feb 2, 2008
I uploaded my file to web server(html, image file and css file), but strangely after uploaded it to server all file that I uploaded size 0 KB. I uploaded it using WS FTP.
Is there something wrong the way I uploaded it.
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Oct 20, 2007
i think it's an apache problem, but whenever i download something from my server via http, i get unknown file size when downloading. it's not a big problem, but it's kind of annoying.
does anyone know why it's doing this?
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Feb 1, 2007
how big I should set the cache size for eaccelerator?
Here's the information from the control.php
Caching enabled yes
Optimizer enabled yes
Memory usage 100.00% (16.00MB/ 16.00MB)
Free memory 0.00MB
Cached scripts 148
Removed scripts 0
Cached keys 0
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Oct 6, 2007
I send an email and check size on Exim queue, is 5.3 Kb
When I receive on my client I check the size and is 11 Kb
There is a only 1 image that is linked (not embedded) and have a sike 8133 byte. Image is online.
11Kb-7,94Kb=3.06Kb
Size is different.. why ?
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Jul 6, 2009
we can import dataabse with phpmyadmin files which size is under 8meg
how can we change it for example to 50meg
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Nov 2, 2009
I have a database which is growing to have about 100 tables. These tables will grow in size and sometime I will need to use RAID 5, I am told by my server provider.
My questions are:-
1. if these other servers are mirrors, should I have the database stored on each server?
2. when one server gets too busy, does the RAID query a lesser-used server so as not to bog down the first one?
3. Or, do I need to have different content in each db on each server so a query gets what it needs form each?
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Dec 11, 2008
Right now APC shm_size is set to30 and since I am only using about 20% of the RAM in VPS, I thought it would be best to increase it a bit. Now how do I go about doing that?
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Apr 23, 2008
Is it possible to add another hard-drive and attach it to increase the size of the /home directory?
Beginning to run out of space.
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