How To Find Out If A Server Can't Handle All The Incomming Traffic
May 11, 2009
what the max number of hits is a quard core server with RAID disk system can handle, it is running on a Linux with separated MySQL server?
The host says there are no restrictions on the bandwith, but somehow it is strange we always only have MAX 300 users online (24/7/365) now I wonder if it just is that way or if some users might be denied access from time to time when they try to enter some of the websites hosted on the server ?
Maybe you know a monitoring service or something that can tell if this is an issue.
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Apr 1, 2008
I've only ever had a shared hosting account with Hostgator, plus a few freebie hosts. However, I'm now pulling some heavy traffic and I'm concerned that Hostgator is going to suspend me soon.
My traffic on Saturday for example was ~2600 unique visitors and ~5000 page views. All of this traffic was from WordPress blogs and a small SMF forum. I've since converted one of the blogs to a static site to limit my CPU usage and I've setup caching for my other WordPress blogs. Advice I've heard on the Hostgator forums is that 7000 page views per day for a database driven site is around the time you should be upgrading and based on my traffic from Saturday (which admittedly was a bit of a spike) I could potentially be receiving 150,000 page views/month, so about 20x the point at which they recommend upgrading at.
Anyhows, in a nutshell I need to upgrade, or risk Hostgator throwing a tantrum at me ... but I don't have a lot of cash to pay for an upgrade Due to my lack of cashflow I've been considering moving to a VPS. The company which has interested me the most is HostV.com who offer a 256 MB (with 1000 MB 'burst' RAM) for only US$39.99 which seems quite reasonable to me.
They say that their 256 MB plan should be able to handle over 5000 page views per day for a WordPress run site, but I'm a little suspect. Do any of you know if this is a reasonable expectation from a 256 MB chunk of a virtual server? I have no idea and am always wary of believing the sales pitch of a random company across the other side of the world.
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Jun 9, 2009
Let's say I run a gallery site that is powered in php with no mysql required. Can a shared host handle traffic that receives 50k+ hits daily?
I know a shared host can handle 50k+ hits daily if the site is pure html but I'm not sure if that still applies the same for php
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Nov 26, 2007
Dedicated machine with 750GB HD x2, 16GB Ram, Dual Opteron 2212 Dual Core Processors, we are on a 100mbps burstable.
Im wondering how many vps i can load into this machine efficiently, any ideas on this?
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Mar 13, 2009
I have a client that asked me to educate myself about web hosting and make a recommendation to him about where he should be. He currently has a shared hosting server at Network Solutions and finds unexplained slow downs and disk corruption reports in his forums DB unacceptable.
I'm glad I found this site-lots of good info but nothing like throwing up some stats and seeing what people recommend. The client told me he wanted to move to a dedicated server but I'm thinking a VPS might do the trick. Especially if upgraded with dedicated Core as well as RAM such as wiredtree is offering.
Looking for a managed, Unix based server that in a typical month serves
100k unique visitors
230k page views
500Gb of downloads
But needs to be easily upgradeable to handle his expected traffic levels in the next year of monthly visits in the order of:
250k unique visitors
600k page views
1.1Tb of throughput
As far as features:
*Currently they use about 15 gigs of disk space. Some of that is inefficient disk management but the bulk is them supporting previous software releases.
*needs to be fully managed
*US datacenter with all the features you guys would expect to have as far as backbone access, security, power backups, etc..
*Backups by provider. Let's say 5 gigs worth since the old software versions don't really need to be backed up.(I'll recommend his own backups as well)
*Either plesk or cpanel
*15 minute hardware SLA is what the client is asking for but i'd like to present some comparisons to 1 hour SLA companies to see how much he'd save.
And finally, i tried to search for the answer to this but the keywords kept bringing up lots of hits without good info. The client sells software so the bandwidth needed is pretty consistent until they release a new version. Then it skyrockets to the point they may have 1500 people trying to download a 50Meg file simultaneously. What is the right way to handle that? Use a CDN or negotiate with the hosting provider to provide burstable bandwidth as needed. As a side note while looking at many offerings I was most surprised that bandwidth seems to sold in large chunks with overage costs hidden.
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Oct 10, 2008
I use zoneedit to point my domain to the server, and a few times their servers don't respond for a few minutes that causes my site to be unaccessible. I was wondering if there was any better way of doing this? Please give me suggestions on what to do to have proper dns.
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Aug 26, 2007
How well would a website do if it was featured on d-igg with these specs? (assuming it was the only site on the server)
Xeon 2.8, Quad core 4mb cache
4gig RAM
2x73gb SCSI
2,500gb b/w
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Aug 28, 2008
For the beginning, just wondering, what server configuration do you need to handle 150.000-200.000 uniques/month?
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May 4, 2008
if upgrading to that new server that I'll mention will probably solve my problems. Whatever help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Below are the details:
In the GMT evenings and nights my current server gets so loaded that every page load takes 10 - 30 seconds. Even the pure html pages will be so slow to load. It seems that after a certain treshold it just suddenly becomes that much slower. Not much middleground there. I have high MaxClients and ServerLimit values now and the error log doesn't say that they are exceeded anymore but that didn't help enough.
I have a high traffic website that is using latest version of apache (2.2.x) with the prefork MPM and apache is optimized, PHP 5.2.5 and APC 3.0.15.
I get 160,000 - 210,000 pageloads per day. 32,000 - 45,000 visits per day.
Most of its pages are PHP but shouldn't be too CPU or databes intensive. Mysql isn't used and I mostly used sharedmem (php's shm functions) for databases. 2 semaphores are quite heavily used but that can't explain how a few more users would make the server serve pages so much slower.
Swap usage is practically 0 and CPU user % usage is like 1 - 2 % and CPU system % is also about the same even during peak times. However the Average Load or whatever that "top" reports is 6 - 9.
My current server scecs: 1 GB Ram, Pentium D 3 ghz, CentOS 5 32bit fully updated.
I load all pictures and even the stylesheet from a secondary server by using href="$secondaryserverIP..." in the html code, so the main server practically just serves the pages.
My new server will have apache with the worker MPM and latest versions of every software. Also its specs are: 2 GB of RAM, Intel Dual Core Xeon 2.40GHz, CentOS 5.1 32bit fully updated.
I have a sophisticated netstat based ddos script that is an improved version of DDoS Deflate and while some of these slowdowns seem to have been caused by attacks that it then was able to defend me from, most of them are not. I am even protected from users who constantly have 7+ connections to my site and if someone has a way too high number of connections, the script won't even check if it constantly has it and the script just bans that user outright. It probably is banning a bunch of innocent proxy users too but that is a small price to pay.
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Apr 11, 2008
I have a video sharing site running Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz with 2 gb RAM and 400 gb Hard Disk.
the server load average increase up to 89,00.00.....
and the users online in my site is around 190 online.
do i need quad core server to maximize my site?
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Feb 28, 2007
how many players you would estimate the following server could handle running Counter-Strike Source dedicated Server?
Dell PowerEdge 1550 1U Rackmount Server
1Ghz P3 Processor -
1GB RAM
2X36Gb U160 SCSI Hard Drives in RAID1 for redundancy
Windows 2000 server
Network connectivity is 100mbit in a London DC.
Of course its not possible to give a 100% accurate figure however i would like a rough estimate prior to me purchasing this machine.
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Mar 25, 2009
Let's say a dedicated server has following specs:
Single quad core 2Ghz Xeon cpu
4Gb ram
250Gb SATA
100Mbps connection
and each blog has latest WP version and some plugins(without supercache) installed, 100 unique hits/day.
so how many blogs can I plant in this box?
(bandwidth is not considered.)
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Jan 6, 2009
I have a client who's server has got DDOS attack. It causes the network disruption and DC wants to turn off the server. My client feels it stupid to turn off the server just like that.
can large attacks prevented server side?
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May 11, 2008
We are setting up 100s of new domain names every day. We are only hosting a simple blog, in fact with our current setup we are on a HostGator Reseller account and we are just using one account meaning one single cPanel account.
We have a script that automatically runs when people sign up for our service, this script sets up an addon domain on that same single cPanel account with the same document root. Our modified wordpress blog simply looks at the HTTP_HOST in the config file and opens a separate database tables for every new domain name.
The problem we are running into is not the bandwidth usage, nor storage space. But simply the mass addon domains. The cPanel adddomain.html script seems to be getting ran so many times it is overloading the web server.
So I have read about some other people here WHT that are starting to use a new server software that uses a lot less server resources then WHM and cPanel. So I am wondering what hosting companies can provide that sort of a server.
Specifically:
Storage: A couple hundred GB
Bandwidth: 1000s of GB
Server software to run PHP scripts and mySQL databases
Ability to create 1000s of addon domains every day.
Does this need to be an array of servers?
We are ready to get moving on a deal now.
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Feb 28, 2008
My current website now have 16k unique visitor/day.
Last time I was host my website in HostGator shared plan, and it can't handle any more.
Maybe for the first time, I won't looking for superb server, but will be try small specification.
Slow but sure, I will upgrade it based on my website's growth.
about price, specs that can handle my website, and the provider.
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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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Mar 24, 2008
Since I have never worked on the server end of things I had a quick question for all you web hosting gurus.
Is it possible to have PHP installed on ONE single server and still have the ability for the server to work with both MS Access AND MySQL at the same time?
I would think YES, but I am being told by our server branch at my current job that this is not the case. They claim there is no way for the server on one machine to be able to handle both types of databases. Are they right?
If they are wrong and it is possible to have one server run both type of databases, what steps would be necessary to set up the server to handle both types? Do we need to tweak the php.ini file or is there another method of allowing the server the ability to work with both MySQL and MS Access.
Sorry if this question seems stupid or odd, as I said, I have minimal experience on the server end but I am confident that a server can handle both.
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May 20, 2009
I own two large hacking // gaming sites and host a few others. I need a company that can offer fully managed, secure,ddos protected, fast dedicated servers.
A big thing with me is if someone sends my hosting company a message saying, HEY your server is hosting hacks or illegal material, the company wont just go OH OK and shut down the server.
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Nov 15, 2007
What traffic monitor would everyone recommend for sites that have as many as 5,000 to 10,000 hits an hour?
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Oct 15, 2007
how can i do a search for all files (probs using regex) of files consisting purely of numbers?
for e.g. find:
53243.php
24353.php
24098.php
(always have 5 numbers).
seems one of my accounts has had some script run which generated a bunch of these in various subfolders, and the php file basically does a callback to www3.rssnews.ws and www3.xmldata.info, which seem to be some sort of spyware servers.
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Aug 29, 2008
how many pageviews a server like this can handle a day?
Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
1024 MB RAM
160 GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
Simple website with PHP and MySql, few graphics.
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Aug 10, 2007
Is it possible that someone on the same network as my server (shared hosted, freebds) could somehow cause my traffic to be diverted to a new url after visitors landed on my website?
I assume this person has access to my home PC also and is reading what I type here etc. Has the ability to allow domains and IP's and divert others on my server, IS in the position to know who to allow and deny (my affiliates, customers etc IP's are recorded etc)
IF this was possible, how would I be able to catch this person out?
Where would I look for evidence of this and what am I looking for?
I don't manage my DNS and asking my server host (my suspect hosts with them too) gets a reply like: I don't understand what your asking? Do you need webaliser stats?
How would someone be able to do what I'm guessing is happening: That people can land on my site.. however, this guy can than redirect them to his own paying page. If I set a link here to my site..he'd soon add its domain to "allowed" etc etc.
I'm thinking I need access to server access to my dns, login info and Last Modified details on those file. I don't have these. I don't know what I'd be looking at if I had them.. and my server tech hasn't offered to look at such things.
My interest is more than intellectual.
Until last weekend my 2 1/;2 year project that has grown in sales volume beyond my expectations. I had had no contact with this person for 8 months and in that time sales where consistent. I Had changed all accesses, IP etc etc. I used to host with him. Then moved hosts since I didn't trust him (same problem back then - sales fell to nothing but traffic grew) moved to my current host.. not long after find HE is now on that host too.. now after I have contact from him again, sales have gone flat without any explanation, even though traffic has increased! 1:300 has become 1:10000 and I have checked everything site side (I'm a webmaster for over 10 years)
I'll be ruined very shortly and I don't know what to do.
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Apr 14, 2007
I am being hacked & I don't know how they are getting files on my server. They are doing it on two of my domains, I suspended one and then they got it on the other. My FTP access log does not show anything suspicious..
How can I find their doorway?
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Jul 8, 2009
secure a windows server 2003 traffic.
I have one server with a small number of clients <10. The clients have dynamic IPs.
The server hosts a number of public facing websites, email, FTP and remote desktop.
What I want to do is make port 80 respond to all web requests but lock all other services down so that they only respond to my 10 clients. I was thinking some certificate or VPN solution but I've ruled VPN out as I don't have a firewall or VPN so would I be able to do this with IPSEC?
Is there quick utility that would do this or can you point me to a good example article?
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May 9, 2008
We're expecting a large spike in traffic (40k visits in one day) soon. We’re running on a very powerful server with CentOS & cPanel.
Is there any specific configuration we can setup to prepare for the large visitor spike? The website is very database and PHP intensive. We want to avoid any downtime.
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Sep 19, 2008
which processor for an high traffic server?
DELL Xeon 3065 or Intel Dual Core E 2140
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Feb 26, 2007
I was wondering if it is possible to block traffic to and from a server with iptables.
Like for example a user transferring files with his ftp client to another server x.x.x.x (FXP)....
been trying with these rules here:
iptables -IINPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP
iptables -I OUTPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -s x.x.x.x -j DROP
But still the user can transfer to the server destination...
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Jan 15, 2009
i have question which i'v serched for answer for it more than 3 days , may be more.. but i still can't catch it.
now if i have aWin EST server , and i have t remote desktop . i can creat accounts right?
well , if i need to manage the traffic for evry account, and give account whatever 500 GB trffic , another account with 500 GB , another with 300 GB , etc etc..
how can i know they have reched thier limite and they stop useig more from the server?
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Apr 22, 2009
billing system to control the traffic between router and servers. I thing I need a billing system installed on server with webgui like those used by ISPs but I need it working with paypal and other payment gateways.
The other solution is to use radius server but I will need it working with payment gateways. Can you recommend me a good radiuns server with many options?
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Aug 8, 2008
how you monitor the traffic of each individual VPS on your dedicated servers?
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Apr 14, 2008
Is it actually possible to find Windows dedicated server with unlimited traffic (1Gb Pipe)and reliable 24/7 technical support? Cause I have searched and found out that if the traffic is unlimited the pipe is too small, and if the pipe is big enough traffic is limited and additional one costs a fortune.
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