How can I determine the minimum specs for a server that will hold several VPS? Dividing the resources by the total number of VPS machines, is this any good? (Processor, Ram, ...etc)
View 2 RepliesMy site serves a few hundred people, and has very heavy database usage (every page).
But, for a two hour period EVERY day, it can server 5-10,000 at a tme - very strange, I know.
What kind of server set-up would I need?
I.e your answer may be... "Woah... You'll need 10 servers all doin abc"
I'm not too bothered about the detail - just "1 basic server would be enough - $100" - just an idea - I really have no clue.
I know this is a difficult question, and I'll get the usual - depends on xyz etc. - but even if your answer is "You'll need between 10-50 servers" - it at least gives me an idea.
if i need to host 10-20k concurrent users, what kind of server specs should i be getting ?
operating system will be windows server and IIS
running several websites and some web services.
I've been commissioned to setup and run a server for a client. It's a site where people can upload and show their photos in a rather large community. Daily users peaking at around 5.000 these days. He also has a large and very active forum for his 30.000 members. Forum is run on homebuild scripts (compares to Vbulletin).
He insists on getting a server that has absolutely no lag or other response time and is willing to pay what ever it costs.
I was thinking about setting up a system with:Xeon Dual core
16 GB RAM
4*500GB RAID
10 MBPS Port
Would a server like that do the job?
Was thinking about co-locating it to a Level3 center.
I have been hired to build a web server for a fellow student at school. I am used to building desktops for personal use but this is my first time putting together a web server so I just wanted to verify with you web hosting pros what should go in it.
Purpose of server: He wants a server that is capable of hosting a website mostly dedicated to a vBulletin community. He wants it to support a community of 30,000 members with a max of 1000 active users. He is also active in local politics and wants to host some local candidates web pages but I assume since they are local candidates and not very well known and most likely going to be very static pages this wont cause much of an extra load.
Limitations:I know the connection is going to be a likely place for a bottle neck but he wants to have a server that is capable of hosting the above mentioned type of load and will upgrade the his connection as needed. Also he does not know how to use Linux or Unix so a windows based system would be strongly preferred even though its generally considered worse.
what is the most necessary specs on such a system? I would greatly appreciate any input.
What do you think are good specs for web servers? We've been usually buying dual processor, dual core, 2gb ram, 2x36gb 15k scsi in raid-1 servers, but I wonder if we could get away with significantly less.
Is it better to have multiple, cheaper servers for Apache? What are some example specs?
What about something like this:
Intel Xeon 5130 2.00GHz 1333MHz 4MB DC x 1
2GB FB-DIMM - DDR II - 667 MHz (2x1GB) x 1
74GB S-ATA 10000 RPM ... OR ... 250GB S-ATA 7200 RPM ... OR ... 36 GB SCSI 15000 RPM
What specs would I need to host a blog that gets 20k uniques a day?
View 17 Replies View RelatedI'm starting a file download site. I've done a lot of research and I'm currently planning a head for growth and scaling. Looking to serve around 250-500 thousand 5MB files a day.
I would like some input from people that KNOW what they are talking about, hopefully people that have hosted/ran similar sites.
The main question I need answered is what will be the first bottle neck for a single download server will run into when delivering the following.
File size = 10MB.
Number of downloads = As many 1.2mbit download streams as possible.
Example Server, lets say...
Intel 5405
8GB Ram
2x640GB RE3 Hardware Raid 1
1000mbit
Am I correct in assuming the bottle neck will be the HD's here? So would I be right in assuming this could handle around 200 concurrent downloads @ 1.2mbit(250mbit)?
I'm wondering what kind of web server load that people are dealing with when it comes to their web (Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, nginx, etc.) server.
What information I'm curious about: How many raw accesses your web server is dealing with in a given month, and what kind of hardware you have to serve those accesses?
If you have multiple servers, pick the one that has the most accesses in a month.
My results:
My server gets ~2,500,000 accesses a month (about 1 per second) on Apache. The server is a AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 1GB RAM. Hardware handles those requests with no problems.
I've been getting requests for a VPS hosting from a few clients and I was wondering what everybody's input on the best server hardware configuration for a hypervm server is.
Was thinking something along the lines of the following server configuration:
Quad core processor(s)
16gbs of ram
2x 100GB RAID 1 Main HDD (Do I need this much space?)
4TB RAID 5 VM HDD's
That would allow me to keep the main OS separate and redundant due to HDD failure and leave the VM's on a RAID 5 for the same reason.
What would you change or advise me to do on this configuration? The goal is to host as many VM's as the processor/ram/HDD's will allow without much of a performance hit.
how many we can host with this configuration? Obviously depends on the packages that I haven't thought about yet.
Is it possible to build a server with only 0.5A - 0.75A (110V) or 60W - 90W peak power consumption? If so, what specs?
What's the lowest peak power consumption on:
quad core CPUs
2 memory DIMMS
2xSATA drives
I am looking to built such servers or have somebody built it.
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.
At the moment I have two Clovertown boxes at Softlayer with 4GB of ram. One has a couple of mirrored SATA disks and the other has raid 5 on some SAS disks. Both boxes have 1GB ports.
I'm running MDaemon not sure if its the right choice on both.
There arent many user accounts listed as most of emails goto and come from application servers, where they are basically loaded into a database.
My issue is most emails go out on one mail server. Sometimes there are 100,000 messages in the queue which then effects icoming mail processing. At times it can take hours for a message to get through the box. This results in issues as the email verfication system I use for end user accounts requires them to reply to a message, which of course if it takes hours to get into an account is no good.
Im debating about adding another box to the mix or replacing the two current mail servers (I could use them to do something else) with something like a 4xquad core job with 16GB of ram.
However does anyone have any suggestions on any different mail servers.
I dont want to run exchange, I have that on another box (lol) for my email already and I dont want something which is really going to require a lot of user input to keep running
setting up a Backup MX server for my domains and I was wondering what sort of a spec'd server I'd need for around 20-40 domains. The 20-40 domains aren't hosted on the same network/server so it would be unlikely for all of them do go down at once...but at the same time I dont want any emails to go missing.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI would like some advice and to see if this is a good approach to setup a server / web business.
The idea is to start off providing very basic web hosting functionality for smaller sites.
I was thinking about purchasing two similar or identical servers (RAID1 disks) + server fully mirrored.
In case 1 falls out the 2nd one takes over. DNS services is at startup located on other servers in the DC.
If this works out then I'd be looking at increasing servers with clusters or LVS.
I'm having a very hard time finding resources and information of the load and server capacity.
I was thinking about a system like this:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 , RAID 1 SATA disks (preferrably Raptor), 2 GB of RAM.
This would then be running LAMP. I would limit the traffic to 5-10GB transfer / month per account.
(most account would not nearly get up to this figure).
Is there a ballpark figure at about how many web sites this server could handle ?
Are we talking about 50 ? 20 ? 100 ?
So heres the short story:
1) I had a VPS account at [url](now hosting.com) for 2+ years.
2) My credit card expired so they suspended/disabled my account because they couldn't charge it.
3) I decided that I wanted to find a new host.
4) I asked for my files.
5) They said no because the account is disabled because of non-payment for 40+ days and that I'd need to pay the balance and then reactivate my account at the new pricing structure (which is $30+ more per month).
Is this even legal? Seems like extortion to me, but then again I am not a lawyer.
We have a client that is normally low use. about 200+ hits per day. They are a non-profit, and get TV coverage (like the Today show, Dateline, NBC nightly news, and coming up here soon final 4 news spot) about once a month. When this happens, they get 60k hits a day.
they crash my dedicated server a few times. I have a dual p4 w/ 2 gb of ram. I only have 60 clients on this server, but as they get more coverage, our server cant take this many hits.
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?
I'm building a web app that will be both serving ads as well as recording things like impressions and clicks.
Obviously it will have a dedicated server (and will most likely quickly expand in to needing multiple servers) but I'm curious what specs are most important for this sort of thing.
Is processor speed more important? RAM? Hard drive speed?
It won't be heavy so much on the side of server full pages of data (like a normal website) as much as it will be heavy for display ads and recording visitor data.
I'm building a web app that will be both serving ads as well as recording things like impressions and clicks.
Obviously it will have a dedicated server (and will most likely quickly expand in to needing multiple servers) but I'm curious what specs are most important for this sort of thing.
Is processor speed more important? RAM? Hard drive speed?
It won't be heavy so much on the side of server full pages of data (like a normal website) as much as it will be heavy for display ads and recording visitor data.
I'll be running a LAMP setup for this and will also be serving actual ad files (images, flash) from a CDN.
I signed up with La(m)nehost not a short while back, I now wanted to make use of the guarantee since i'm not happy with there service.
I issued a ticket the 27th december 2008, requesting my money back since I wasn't happy with there services and they offer a 60back not-happy-money-back guarantee.
Till this very day it seems as Lanehost is REFUSING to respond to the ticket! I asked about the issue on the chat and just got a lame answer "you should log a ticket"...
What can I do against this? I paid around 150dollar for a year (stupid enough).
I was about to start my own hosting company, and this just sets me back alot.
I had two servers with wiresix, for the most part support was OK (not the best, but not really bad) and Ryan was responsive to AIM and emails. At one point I no longer needed my dedicated server with them as I had moved everything over to my Colo server. I submitted a ticket to cancel the server (i gave 45 days) and request confirmation from them which I never got. AS the time got closer for that server to go away I started getting longer and longer response times to IM and support. Because of this I felt the need to cancel my colo box and get it shipped to a DC by me as not to be left stranded by a host that didnt care.
I submitted another cancellation request (about 6 weeks in advanced) and again got no response. About this time the dedicated server was supposed to go offline. I got invoiced and charged for it so I opened another ticket asking for a refund for a server that had been canceled. No responses, on anything. Now it comes time for the colo box to be taken offline...
I requested it be taken offline and shipped out a little bit earlier then the actual date. I provided shipping information. I also noted they can use the payment that should have been refunded to cover the shipping costs. This was the first of April. I am borrowing a server from a coworker for my customer who is supposed to be on the colo server. No big deal right, borrow a server for a few days and then move the customer back to the new server...Right?
Wrong. As of this date Ryan still has all my servers online, in the rack and will not even respond to my tickets or AIM. I cant even get in touch with him (or the rest of wiresix) to allow a friend of mine to goto the datacenter and pick up the server. The refund? Who knows... At this point I am convinced Ryan is angered that I am leaving and is hold my colocated server and my payment hostage. I have no other explanation.
I have attached an image file (with some information whited out) with the tickets and the last response times intact. Please I urge everyone DO NOT USE WIRESIX. If you do, do not ever cancel or you will never see your hardware.
At this point, I do not think I have any other choice but to contact my lawyer or the Atlanta Police department for the theft of my hardware.
I signed up for 3rd Rock Hosting's smallest plan and pre-paid a year because it was inexpensive and after EpicVPS's server magically deleted everything I had no reason to use a bigger host as my data was gone and my most recent backup was too old to do me much good.
The account got set up immediately, however there were problems such as my bandwidth allocation and number of email accounts and such were half of what they were quoted to be on the webpage. Ok, got a ticket in and got that sorted out no problem.
Then, something happened to 3rd Rocks upstream host and the site was down for two days about two weeks into hosting. They've had this problem before and I knew about it and decided to chance it. Bad decision I guess.
A week ago or so I got an email telling me to change my DNS as they moved to a new server. What? New name servers? Ok. I use my own DNS but updated the A records to the new IP's. This is where the trouble began, once everything resolved I could access my panel but none of my pages load! It just loads a blank screen and even view source doesn't show any of my php pages. I logged into the account via FTP and sure enough my files/data are there.. just nothing loads.
Not having to want to deal with this headache I politely asked my account be canceled and the 30 day refund honored. I was greeted by Mark asking if I changed my nameservers and when I told him I had modified my nameservers to reflect the new IP's he offered me two free months.
I stated that with the trouble I've had in the last 30 days; going past the 30 day trial would give me no 'out' if more trouble occurred. Mark stated he'd give me a refund 'ASAP'. This was Sept 1st. There's been no refund and I've shot off two more questions in the support ticket without answers. My 30 day 'guarantee' ends in just a few more days so I'm trying to get this done before hand of course.
I'm -> <- this close to filing a paypal complaint and escalating it. Being incommunicado with me for 2 days while you scrounge up $20 bucks is baffling.
Can you guys recommend a server by looking at the graphs below?
Connections „ CPU Usage „ Load Average
Memory Utilization „ Swap Memory „ Traffic
I'm trying to identify the right hardware for the job without going overkill with the specs, as the budget is limited.
I've recently had a number of enquiries from hosted clients and potential customers requesting SharePoint hosting for use in connection with their current packages. I've used Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 in the past, but am specifically looking into the latest and greatest release of SharePoint to date to install - SharePoint Server 2007.
I've read over Microsoft's server requirements for running SharePoint, who recommend a 3GHz or higher processor and 2GB RAM for web servers, and 4GB RAM for SQL servers. To me, this seems ridiculous for the small number of clients I'll ever be hosting, and who will only have a small number of SharePoint users per site.
Those with any experience of SharePoint hosting please share your opinions of SharePoint hosting on various server configurations, as I'm interested to know how it performs. As I'll only have a small user base, would running SharePoint fully on one existing IIS 6 web server do the trick? What processor should this machine have, and amount of RAM to run SharePoint well?
I wanted to know wich hardware parts/specs are most important when running a php newsletter script like Interspire Email Marketer [url] or Omnistar Mailer (www.omnistarmailer.com/).
So im looking for a server that as to be able to have between 50 to 200 diferent emails clients, each one sending 20.000 to 80.000 emails / moth.
Based on my needs wich will be the adequate choice?
Server 1:
CPU: P4 2.8Ghz HT
RAM: 1GB
HDD: 2 x 80GB HDD SATA
Server 2:
CPU: 1 x Intel XEON DUAL-CORE 3075 [2.66GHz/4MB/1333MHz FSB]
RAM: 2GB
HDD: 2 x 250GB SATAII HDD
Server 3:
CPU: 2 x Dual Core Xeon 5110/4MB cache
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 2 x 73GB SAS - 10K RPM [RAID 10]
More Questions regarding hosting details:
a) In terms on CPU, do i need require P4, Xeon or 4Core Xeon?
b) In terms on RAM, will i need 1, 2, 4, or more Gb?
c) In terms on Hard Drive, i will be just fine using SATA or do i need faster, like SAS, 10k Raptor?
I want to install a email newsletter script like SendStudio or 1 2 All [url], to serve my current clients but i im not sure of wich server to choose.
Wich are the most important hardware specs (Processor / RAM / Harddrive) to andle a PHP / MySql Email Script sending 1 milion emails / moth.
Will a Pentium 4 / 1Gb RAM / SATA Hard Drive do the job?
Or do i need a High End Server with Xeon Processor / 4Gb Ram / SAS Hard Drives?
(* Didn't know where 2 place *)
I have heard that some Linux systems ( like Debian ) are advised 2 support only 2 gb of ram.
What OS can run these specs?
16-32 GB RAM ECC
2 Intel Xeon E5355, Clovertown 2.66Ghz Quad Core, FSB1333, 8MB, 32/64 bit, VT, DBS, 120W
I was wondering.. which specs does a VPS need to have where proxies will be hosted on?
I will be using LXadmin as my control panel and Glype as my script.
I had an eye on the 5$ per Month VPS special of thenynoc... should that do the trick?
Super VPS
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10GB Space
512MB RAM
1,000GB Transfer
2 IP Addresses
Choice of operating systems (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse)
How many proxies can you host on that VPS with those specs?
I have a small VPS with Serverways and to be honest I have had no problems with it for a week or so - suprising when you see the spec!
My question is - are there any other providers around the globe (looking for VPS servers all over the place) that would sell me a VPS with the following specs:
CPU 100MHZ
100 MB RAM
10GB SATA (Could probably do with less if needed)
No control panel
100GB Bandwidth on- 100mbps port.
4.90 USD
UnManaged
We're setting up a vBulletin forum, and I'd like to know what we'll need from a vps. We expect 5000-10000 hits a day, maybe 30-60 users on at a time, and we'd like to keep quick load speeds.
So how much ram would we need to achieve fast speeds?
How many mysql database might we need (just roughly for such a sized forum)?
How much bandwidth will we need?
Plus any other info you can give!
I could also do with some VPS hosting recommendations. We'll be adding other sites (with less traffic) in the VERY near future, so we'd like them to be accomodated. A host with good support/ response time is a must, and one with excellent uptime to!