What minimum VPS specs should I be looking for to support a PHPBB3 forum that uses 100GB/mth bandwidth and has 50 concurrent users at peak times (measured by PHPBB, so not real-time concurrent)?
And are there any suggestions for inexpensive ($30 or less) options that would be worth trying? Have never used a VPS before.
If not, are there any shared hosting providers that specialize in hosting message boards like PHPBB?
I am in the process of cleaning one old unused phpBB technical forum. As of now the forum is full of spam posting and junk users. I did upgrade it to the latest version, applied a few security tools to prevent spam users from registering. It seems they aren't that much effective. I still get around 50 new spam posting a day.
Do you have any suggestions/tools to help me in getting up the database cleaned. Do you prefer migrating to another forum software. If yes can you recommend some tool for that?
Are there any services where an ADMIN can monitor DB usage on system and make some recommendations or even find SQL that is poorly written ...
I have a DUAL harpertown, 10GB RAM, and RAID
I have a typical, gallery, busy VB forum, and video script...
THe site traffic has not increased much but my Memory keeps getting chewed up... i already did some tuning that VBULLLETIN suggested... but the memory still goes... i need a tool or someone to just monitor the server for a day and grab as much diagnostic info as possible..
I suspect that its a single query giving problems cuz i have some custom coded pages...
I don't want to split the DB and HTTP request on diff servers cuz the traffic that i get shouldn't warrant it... for now...
Any recommendations for inexpensive but fairly good colo options near Chicago? I have a website that will serve users routing through Chicago us.bb.gin.ntt.net and am wondering how low latency I can get to that without breaking the bank for this one project
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhat is the price one should expect to pay for a quad system server? I am guessing this could either be four cpus, two dual core cpus, or four seprate cpus all on the same motherboard. What this the best way to offer such a server?
If you were on a budget and building a server, which motherboard/cpu combo would you go for?
Currently paying 24.95/month with Hostgator on a reseller plan but am only using ~2Gb drive space and less than 2Gb or monthly transfer.
Would be nice to find a VPS that has CPanel for about the same price range.
I've searched extensively through the Windows hosting forum but I was not able to find reasonable hosting providers based on the following criteria:
* Shared is fine (I'm on a budget)
* The cheaper the better (no more than 2 hours / week downtime)
* 9-5 support and 24 hour ticket turnaround
* Include .NET 3.5
* Include ASP.NET and WCF (web services)
* Allow up to 5 domain names that I already own
* Include 2GB of disk space and 10GB of traffic / month
* A decent pipe, something like 100K down and 50k up
* SQL Server 2005 Express (or better) with the ability to remotely connect to via Management Studio (with credentials)
* Ability to run or use a POP and SMTP server
* Allow file upload / download via FTP or secure FTP
Anyone know of a good source for inexpensive used or recertified SDLT tapes? We have a customer installing a pretty large NAS (one 2TB array, one 1.6TB array, both will be near full) which they want to back up to SDLT... but new tapes at $35 will cost them a couple thousand bucks.
I've seen recert tapes between $10 and $15 but can't find anyone who has them at the moment.
I've been having good luck with desktop class systems using boards like the Supermicro PDSMI+. But I have need for a 8gb solution.
2gb DDR2 modules are still in $300 range... so 8gb is costing me 4x as much as 4gb.
4 x 1gb=$300 using Kingston DDR2 from Newegg
Problem is motherboards either have 4 slots or I have to move up to Opteron/Xeon boards.
I'm open on ECC or not, had failues either way
Just got a letter from InMotion. They don't like I uploaded my backup files to them, which makes their hosting benefits totally pointless to me and I will be moving to some other cheaper hosting since I basically only use email.
So I need some place to store my backups... I need only about 5 Gb, and I don't care about bandwidth, as I don't plan to download them unless all my HDDs will burn or get stolen or something so I don't need bandwidth. And it should be no more than few bucks/mo.
../logs/error_log
[info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 6 idle, and 37 total children
../httpd.conf
StartServers 7
MinSpareServers 8
MaxSpareServers 13
I think it's already high values, Is it safe to increase it?
Is there a way I can track the HTTP traffic to which domain is running with high traffic. Due to traffic load I/O wait is increasing. I want to suspend the domain that have the large traffic to avoid down time.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi'm hosting a forum (~80 simultalinous users online) In a VDS 512 MB RAM, Linux Debian with apache 1.3 and mysql 4.1 , php4.
Apache seems to be busy, pages don't even load, this can be resolved by restating apache. and after a couple of time (about 4 hours) it does the same thing again, and i do have to restart it again and looping ...
Here is my httpd.conf file :
Code:
Timeout 200
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
KeepAliveTimeout 3
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 15
StartServers 5
MaxClients 20
HostnameLookups Off
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
how much ram do i need for my site (currently on local shared hosting which offtenly highload because of my site), using cpanel vps (cause i don't understand other control panel)
I'm using phpBB2 Forum with few mods and total of 17.800+ member, 300MB Mysql DB, with user online between 100 - 120 at peak hours.
here's my alexa traffic link:
[url]
my site is www.modifikasi.com
I've VPS, I want to cutomize server busy message.
what i should do to cutomize this page?
Wanted to share a bit (read vent a bit if you're cynical ).
Just got the following e-mail from hostmonster.
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Dear Dale:
Your web hosting account for ibycus.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Support
For support go to
Toll-Free: (866) 573-4678
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Apparently, there are two files on my website that are being hit quite a bit, and causing the server to slow down. (I admit, its a busy site, and the files are very big).
The files aren't new there, and neither is the traffic, but the plug was pulled with no warning what so ever, and no offer of remediation on their part beyond refunding the remaining portion of my contract (I would hope so too!).
I can understand that they may not be able to continue to host my site due to the volume of traffic it generates, but they really could have handled this much better.
Tailed apache logs and found this:
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10308 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10309 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10310 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10309 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:34 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10310 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 2 idle, and 45 total children
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10311 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10311 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10312 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10312 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10313 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10313 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10314 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10314 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10315 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10315 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10316 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10316 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10317 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10317 for (*)
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1670): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 10318 for worker proxy:reverse
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1689): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized
[Sun Apr 20 08:29:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(1778): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 10318 for (*)
What on earth is all these proxy_util.c errors?
Also, I could not find any details in the httpd.conf file regarding StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers.
I'm using Centos 4 / Apache 2.2 / PHP 5 / Cpanel
Mysql server always busy and slow (in my VPS).
How I can know which website/account uses mysql very heavely?
or just any monitoring Idea?
I want to know which user is responsible of that overuse?
I have just started a discussion website using phpBB, with over 3000 forums. PhP memory is becoming a problem. My current host provides 16M. As I know 32M is recommeded by phpBB. I asked my current host to increase the memory but found out it's really costly.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMods, if this topic does not belong there - please forgive me and move it where it does belong
I have a question about forums. I am going to have a website based on Typo3 cms. The host is almost found. The site will have its forum and I want it to be as secure as possible. Unfortunately, I cannot invest $ into paid forums, like vbulletin.
The question is, which forum is more secure and which one will become the biggest obstacle for hackers / spambots - phpbb or Typo3 forum?
a host for less than $15 a month that can host a phpbb client with likely around 150-400 members. The site will have little media, mostly pictures if anything, nothing fancy. So what is the best for this?
View 15 Replies View Relatedi not sure what goin on, my phpbb display tis msg when i navigate inside the forum (IIS6.0, windows 2k3)
This msg
your browser does not support meta redirection please click HERE to be redirected
Can I know is the latest version of phpbb still vulnerable to bots signing up? I had given up using phpbb for sometime. Thinking of using it again but I really fear those bots.
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I have a pages with high load - load avg is about 10-20.
and in the error_log of the apache message:
[Mon Mar 17 18:10:19 2008] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 6 idle, and 32 total children
I have in apache:
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeOut 1
StartServers 15
MinSpareServers 15
MaxSpareServers 20
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 500
What values should be of these parameters for the such high traffic pages?
it's getting to the point where I need to optimize MySQL to better handle a busy server.
These days it seems MySQL is using 30% - 60% CPU almost constantly. But, the good news is that I've got 4 gigs of ram on this box and their seems to be an access of 600mb free constantly throughout the day.
Is it possible to tweak MySQL to a little more RAM dependent and take some of the load off the CPU? It seems MySQL wont go over 300mb of ram at any given time.. I'm already working on optimizing the SQL Querys on the web page itself.
my.cnf (4.1.22-standard):
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
# old_passwords=1
# [mysql.server]
# user=mysql
# basedir=/var/lib
# [mysqld_safe]
# err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
# pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
safe-show-database
old_passwords
back_log = 75
max_connections = 600
table_cache = 128
thread_cache = 32
wait_timeout = 60
interactive_timeout = 80
connect_timeout = 60
tmp_table_size = 64M
max_heap_table_size = 64M
max_allowed_packet = 64M
max_connect_errors = 10
read_rnd_buffer_size = 524288
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 64M
query_cache_limit = 8M
query_cache_size = 100M
query_cache_type = 1
default-storage-engine = MyISAM
local-infile=0
thread_concurrency = 4
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[mysqld_safe]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
open_files_limit = 8192
[mysqldump]
quick
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M
[myisamchk]
set-variable = key_buffer=256M
set-variable = sort_buffer=64M
set-variable = read_buffer=16M
I am using apache 2.2 webserver and tomcat 6 as app server.
I have two unix boxes (let say A and B) where apache is installed for load balancing purpose.
The issue is now and then I see that on both the server reaches to 250 busy servers which makes my site very slow and after some time the site is unaccessible.
When I see this I restart apache on both unix boxes and also restart my app server.
But that does not work. As soon as I start apache the httpd process ramps up to 12 (ps -ef | grep httpd) within a minute and the busy servers still remains at 250.
The only I have to do is wait and watch till the busy servers goes down to 250 and then site is back to normal.
Some times it takes hours for busy servers to go down below 250.
I dont understand that why even restarting apache and tomcat doesn't work. why the busy servers are still at 250. even after I restart.
This is what I have in httpd.conf
<IfModule worker.c>
ServerLimit 80
StartServers 2
MaxClients 250
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
I tried to increase MaxClients to 300, which also didn't work and apache or httpd process shuts down by itself.
My current phpbb Installation is 3.0.1 and i want to upgrade it to latest 3.0.4. However as you know, automatic upgrade is available only for 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 and 3.0.3 to 3.0.4. So iam attempting to upgrade 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 and then auto upgrade 3.0.2 to 3.0.4.
I have downloaded and extracted the 3.0.2 source. I have moved the install folder of 3.0.2 to root where my phpbb has been installed. I then used the url domain.com/phpbb/install and the browser based conversion/upgradation has been invoked.
However iam having serious trouble in providing the board path. whatever i have specified, it returns the error --
Could not find path to your former board. Please check your settings and try again.
» ../.. was specified as the source path.
We are currently running a phpBB forum on Dreamhost shared hosting and have been getting a lot of Internal Server Errors, so it's time to move to a new host.
We generally have around 200-300 members online (within the last 30 mins). We are using around 2.8TB/month of bandwidth currently. We get around 135,000 visits per month and 470,000 pageviews.
Dreamhost use their own way of measuring database usage..
Quote:
We've developed a unit of measure that helps to track database performance that we call the "conuery":
(25 * connections) + queries = Your database's conuery usage
Our database disk usage us 24mb, we are averaging around 100,000 database connections per day, around 85,000 queries per day and our "Conuery" is around 3 MCn per day (this means nothing to me either lol).
I have found a VPS package with directspace - 2x Intel Quad Core Xeon, 50GB Storage, 2Gb RAM, 2.5GB Burst Ram and 5TB of monthly bandwidth, for $35/month.
Is this likely to be an adequate solution for our needs? We would be running both the database and web services for phpBB from this box.
Also, can anyone give any hints on the best (and most seamless way) to migrate? I'm thinking that we'll get the new host to install all the services and get the box up and running, then I can ftp the files to the new server and export/import the databases. Then perform a (301?) redirect on the old host, pointing to the new IP address until the DNS is updated.
I realise that I'll need to update the config.php for phpbb with the new database details etc, along with the database details for our wordpress implementation and update the server details in the board configuration.
I wanted to create a phpBB forum without having to pay so I found a website and got it hosted. You can find it HERE: [removed]
I wanted to add on a "Downloads" section but I don't believe this is possible... Does anyone know of another free website that lets you host a phpBB forum and a web page or two?
Current BB: readybb.com/cindysommer
Current host: readyBB
My technical skills: only enough to be dangerous
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
My current host is not satisfactory. Support is practically non-existant. I need to know if there is such a thing as a host that will provide transfer services as I do not have the technical ability to do it myself.
I would think the ideal situation would be to copy everything to the new host first, but as much as I've read and read about this for months, I still do not trust myself to do it.