Optimal Setup For Large Business Listings & Classified Portal
Apr 10, 2009
on the optimal setup for a new clients project. We currently host with eUKhost and have been very happy with them in terms of support. They offer a range of hi-end dedi servers but as with everything in life, cost is an issue.
I know that obviously if money was not an issue, the last server would be the best, but I wonder if this is absolutely necessary for the website. Here are the anticipated site specs....
Portal site with anticipated traffic of around 5,000 visitors online at any one time, searching around 1,000,000 business listings and around 500,000 classifieds ads. Most listings or ads would have multiple pictures on their pages and there will be a reasonable amount of advertising on each page.
My question is whether the system will function adequately with a lesser processor and more Ram, or whether its the processor that gets the database searching speedily.
I just purchased a dell poweredge in order to move my website to its own dedicated server. I have a few questions on the best linux partition setup for a webserver. The system has 8 gigs of ram, raid 10 setup with four 15k rpm drives and two quadcore cpu's.
The os is CentOS 5.1
The server can have up to 30,000 uniques in a single day and can be somewhat database intensive.
Does anyone have a recommend partition setup, besides the default?
With 8 gigs of ram, what is the recommend swap? I've seen rules that say anything over 2 gigs of ram, the rule is S = M+2. So that would put me at 10 gigs swap. Is that overkill?
I run a large adult vBulletin community with 70,000 members, 1/2 million posts, 186,000 attachments (a lot video), and closing in on 100 million downloads since our start some odd years ago. I've been battling keeping the site up for quite some time, and I am starting to wonder whether we shot too low on the server setup. I figure I would ask the pros here at WHT for some advice.
This is our current setup:
Site server:
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CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz 4 Gig ram 250 Gig sata harddrive Unix FreeBSD 6.2 Apache
MySQL server:
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CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (2666.62-MHz 686-class CPU) Cores per package: 4 4 Gig ram 750 Gig SATA harddrive Unix FreeBSD 6.4 Apache
Do you think the site would perform better under one server and maybe a more powerful processor? What should I be looking at exactly as far as hardware goes for this type of site. I should note we push about 2.5TB of bandwidth monthly.
Is there a way to search through all the WHOIS records for a specific contact e-mail address. I'm trying to track a scammer and I've yet to find a search engine that could do this.
on good hosting setups for getting large amounts of disk space.
I would like to be able to offer up to 2Gb storage space for 100s, maybe up to a few 1000 users - any solution should scale well. The files would be static files that might be up to 400Mb in size.
It would be nice to be able to give users FTP access to their disk space, although it's not a core requirement.
I'm currently running two classified ad sites with a php script and a mysql database. Both just launched, but I expect them to have decent traffic within 1 year.
Here are the two options I'm currently considering:
1. a fully managed dedicated server such as Wiredtree provides. This will roughly cost me between $250 and $350/month.
2. go with Rackspace Cloud. Take advantage of their $100/month and then just pay as you go as traffic increases.
ServerLimit 1000 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 64 KeepAliveTimeout 1 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 15 StartServers 30 MaxClients 850 MaxRequestsPerChild 64 HostnameLookups Off UseCanonicalName Off
my.cnf
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[mysqld] local-infile=0 datadir=/var/lib/mysql skip-locking skip-networking safe-show-database query_cache_limit=2M query_cache_size=128M ## 32MB for every 1GB of RAM query_cache_type=1 max_user_connections=350 max_connections=600 interactive_timeout=10 wait_timeout=28800 connect_timeout=20 thread_cache_size=128 key_buffer=512M ## 128MB for every 1GB of RAM join_buffer=8M max_connect_errors=20 max_allowed_packet=32M table_cache=1024 record_buffer=8M sort_buffer_size=4M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM read_buffer_size=4M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM read_rnd_buffer_size=4M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM thread_concurrency=8 ## Number of CPUs x 2 myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M server-id=1 collation-server=latin1_swedish_ci
I am in the process of configuring my volumedrive dedicated server and would like some input on ideal settings for my filesystem.
I'd appreciate suggestions and explanations of what they options do.
Here is my system info: Linux volumedrive.com 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:14:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux CentOS release 5 (Final)
AMD Sempron64 3000+ 1GB RAM
HDD: Location: SCSI device B Cylinders: 60801 Size: 465.76 GB Model: ATA ST3500320AS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Parameters I can change: EXT 3 File System Configuration Options: Block size Fragment size Bytes per inode Reserved blocks Journal file size
Edit IDE Parameters Transfer mode: Default mode / Disable IORDY / PIO mode 1,2,3,4 / Multimode DMA 0,1,2 / Ultra DMA 0,1,2 Using DMA: On/Off Sector count: 256 Read-lookahead: On/Off Write caching: On/Off Interrupt unmask: On/Off Keep settings over reset: On/Off Keep features over reset: On/Off Read only: On/Off Reprogram best PIO: On/Off Standby timeout: 0 32-bit I/O support: Disable / Enable / Enable with special sync sequence Sector count for multiple sector I/O: Disable 2 4 8 16 32
We have a very small server/network/telecommunications room with one server rack housing 2 racked Dell servers, 2 3com router, 1 switch, 2 UPSes and 2 tower servers.
In addition, our phone system is housed in this room.
The temperature is normally about 77 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a VERY small room and central air does not reach the room. Their is only a portable A/C(I guess its fairly powerful) that we leave on all night and day at its max. However, the temperature stays about a constant 77 degrees.
I read in some articles that the temp should be about 58 degrees Fahrenheit. Is that true?
Is our equipment being damaged by the temperature in the room?
I have a website that I want to have people sign up for a user name and password in order to view member content on it. Right now I dont want them to pay for anything, but I want them to be able to go to the site, view a few pictures of clothing, and in order to see more of that line of clothing, they have to register to be a member, or already have a username and password to login and see. Is this done only through webhosts? or is there code that can be bought to accomplish this? what are my options to get this going?
how legal it is to host a gambling portal. So you only have links and ads to gambling sites?
I heard for gambling sites it is only allowed in Malta. But is a portal the same? Also, it seems really hard to find hosting in Malta for reasonable price. Anyone any advice for hosting on this one?
We are getting the error from the SAP portal where we have installed Apache as a reverse Proxy on Windows server.
The Apache Server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The Proxy server could not handle the request POST/irj/portal
Reason: Error reading from remote server -------------------------------------------------- Apache/2.4.9 (Win32)OpenSSL/1.0.1h Server at www.xyz.com port 80
i want to star a real state portal, but i have some questions on what kind of server i will need.
So my real state portal will have: PHP/Sql Databases (for all the information) Up to 20000 images (50kb each) Up to 500 Videos (encoded in flv. 400kbps at full screen)
Visitors / moth: 100000
Assuming that every user that enter the site, views many houses, and videos and photos.
What kind of server or servers will i need to keep this website running?
As my clients' needs expand, they're asking for chroot ssh/sftp setup. I'm currently on a dedicated Linux setup but don't really have the time to set up a whole new box with full virtualization or investigate a full chroot solution (baby on the way), and to be honest it would be less hassle to move to a new provider than worry about down time with sites.
What I'm looking for:
- linux hosting - hosting for 30+ accounts, some with several domains - at least 6 IP addresses for SSL certs - each account in a full chroot environment (ssh/sftp/ftp) so they can't poke around each others' files, or each account set up in a virtual machine setup (ie: openvz) - maildir - spamassassin - php 5, mysql, perl 5.8.8 - suexec apache would be nice
To start I would like to point out that I am expressing my personal opinion and not my company's, although my experience comes from there.
In the last 2-3 months, we noticed an important increase of really hungry customers forcing us to upgrade our infrastructure almost weekly. While this is fun it is also very expensive and requires a lot of prefinancing; something that shouldn't be taken for granted these days. Most of these hungry customers are no doubt seedboxers and they consume an average of 75-85 MBIT/s on a so called unmetered 100 MBIT Port. All of this is fine for me, but I really start wondering what other professionals in this business think of these customers and how they control their bandwidth usage? OVH seems to be pretty clear about this: the more servers you get into your account, the less speed you get per server unless you pay for the pro SLA. I find it interesting, but I doubt that anybody who wants to run a seedbox is actually going to pay a few hundred bucks just to get bandwidth for something that may or may not generate some (legal?) revenue.
Just to ensure those who are following this and might be customers of us: No, we are not going to kick you out! I just want a discussion and get some point of views from others who have been facing the same issue before we actually did.
I have multiple valleywag friends who have gone with Zone.NET for server hosting. I decided to do the same a few weeks back and use them as well. I never got my IP and server info and called customer support. No kidding... been 9 days and Level 1 support kees saying someone will get back to me.
So today I call them and ask them if they are going out of biz because customer support is impossible bad, and he basically said yes!!! Wish they would have told me that upfront.
Anyway, wasted a few weeks with them. Now my cohorts and I are on the lookout for some new hosting companies. All recs welcome
We have been with servage.net for a few months now & have been having lots of issues with emails bouncing, web sites unavailable, very slow, support staff who ignore requests for help etc. etc. etc.
I have posted about them in these forums before.
For the last day the web site they host for us oznotes.net has been "missing", we cant login to cpanel, we have emailed they via the address on there page servage.net & got no reply – but this is typical, they have our money and dont seem to care!
We paid for 12 months hosting in advance
Does anyone know whats happening with them, I rang the TIO – Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman & they cant help with hosting companies.
I'd like to put up here a base question which I hope some will have the goodwill to answer even though it might touch some business secrecies.
We're a gameserver hoster since around ten years, running also vserver products since over two years now. Renting a few Racks in Europe since some time we're a bit in a question mark how rootserver companies deal with the initial hardware costs for every new customer.
Rackspace and today specially power costs are huge cash eaters here in Europe. Dedicated Rootservers are huge space & power consumers per customer ratio. The initial Hw costs for every new rootserver customer might be covered after 4-6 months (if the machine has to be bought newly), adding the bandwidth and power costs it might take up to 8-9 months until a benefit might come in.
Is this the business normality in the rootserver market (waiting 9 months for any benefit, or counting only on the benefit of the 2nd customer using the older Hw), or are the better ways to handle those "initial" costs or keep them affordably low?
Is anyone experiencing no communication from Vortech?
We have a Dell PowerEdge server co-located in a Vortech rack at Colo-Solutions in Orlando. We lost communication with the server 11 days ago, at 13:00 hours 24 Sept 2008. Dan (WHT user Danlvortech) at Vortech, said it was a failed switch and they were working on it.
Nine days ago at 17:00 hours on 26 Sept the network issue was still not fixed and all phone lines into Vortech were not working. We raised ticket requesting release of the server. Vortech billed us another month and agreed to release the ticket. Since then, we have had no contact from Vortech except closure of the original 'No Connection' ticket.
We have written to their CEO Brad Pugh, he does not reply. We try their phone lines every day, the calls are answered by the answering menu, but fail to forward to any department.
Dan and the other guys in Vortech Support do not respond to tickets relating to this matter.
We don't know where the server is!
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues with Vortech?
Does anyone know of any way to make contact with Vortech?
I'm starting a small web hosting/voice chat business. As I'm looking through sites with dedicated servers, I really don't have a clue as to the resource requirements of hosting multiple websites and a few teamspeak/ventrilo servers. What would you recommend I start out with in terms of hardware on a dedicated server?
Seems their page is up and they take orders, but my site is down for about a month. Emails to their support also get an error message that their smtp server isn't working.
They have been limping along for the last year with the server i'm on with almost full disk space all the time.
They also never updated cpanel. Cheap, but the quality was low.
How does peering work from the business angle? Say company X has bought a Gb port at an exchange, and wants to peer with other folks peering there. What are the folks typically going to expect from X before they'll peer with it? What are the characteristics of X that would make folks willing/unwilling to peer? I've no idea what the relative importance of things would becontent (desirable, undesirable) WAN Network. (Does one have to have one?) technical cluefulnessBrand Qualities of the potential peer. It's hard to figure out the realpolitik of it all just by understanding the tech (BGP, etc.) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering .
I have learnt it is harder to setup than I initially expected (since I have just moved from a shared hosting service). I am in need of some help setting up my DNS servers, as I am very confused. Here is most of the info I know:
1) I am running HyperVM
2) I've installed LXAdmin
3) I own the domain (purchased from xeodomains.com) runemart.com
4) My VPS hostname is: vps.runemart.com
5) I know my IP
6) My host has said:
'For VPS customers that have a HyperVM login you can now host forward DNS on the DNS servers rdns1.vaserv.com (US)rdns2.vaserv.com (UK'
And I am unsure what this means/how to do it.
I am not sure if I need some more information to set up my DNS, however I am sure that I can get it if I do.
Now, my questions begin. Firstly, I need to point my domain - runemart.com - somewhere. I believe I need to set up my DNS via HyperVM or LXAdmin so that they are something like: ns1.runemart.com and ns2.runemart.com. Though, is this correct? Am I able to set up my own actual domain name servers, or will my domain have to point at something like rdns2.vaserv.com?
If anyone can assist me in this I would be very greatful, as I am waiting to get my website running. This is all I will ask for now, I will take it one step at a time =).
So, I no longer required my VPS at Knownhost. Stopping service was a snap. Sent an email off to billing, no questions asked. Done. So? Why would I post this? I just wanted to state that my whole experience with Knownhost has been TOP OF THE LINE, the whole way. Support was always responsive, the service/downtime notifications were a snap via rss, I have NOTHING to complain about. Hell they even sent me a Christmas card :-)
So, what proof do I offer? I utilize a 3rd party Uptime service to historically log outages on various servers, let's look at the downtime report for the KnownHost VPS: ...
