It's been hard finding a host here in Oz that can compete on price with US hosts, but I've just stumbled on hostess.com.au and their fees and offerings seem way too good to be good, if you know what I mean. Has anyone had experience with them?
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I'm on a low-end dedicated server that I run 2 decent sized blogs on. I'm getting several traffic spikes a day where the load goes through the roof and I think I need my server optimized.
My server admin says I need a bigger server and he has never steered me wrong but this is ridiculous:
My blogs use Wordpress as its blogging platform....I know they hog server resources and I've recently installed Super cache so that seems to help.
I average about 5,000 pageviews a day and I would think even a low-end box should handle this but maybe I am wrong.
Here's the server specs:
Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2394.661 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 128 KB
Memory: 1033924k/1048016k available (2171k kernel code, 13360k reserved, 723k data, 172k init, 130512k highmem)
hda: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Memory:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035148 993356 41792 0 151312 527008
-/+ buffers/cache: 315036 720112
Swap: 2040212 476700 1563512
Total: 3075360 1470056 1605304
Its been about 9 days since I launch new site.
75gb BW (bandwith) is used up. 24,000 page views so far.
Now I check and I am over the BW limit by at least 30gb.
I have to pay 50 cents additional for each gb.
Continuing the increasing bw spikes I realize it is not economically viable continuing for now, considering what I pay for original package.
The site has been down for at least 24 hours. My budget is rather tight at the moment being a student with full time loan. I did not realize VPS would continue even though bandwith limit has been reached.
After Cpanel update latest release version. I have issue with named.conf.
I tried to rebuild named. but..
/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig
fixrndc requires a syntactically correct /etc/named.conf.
No changes were made to /etc/named.conf.
Problem was:
/etc/named.conf:23: when using 'view' statements, all zones must be in views
Anyone can explain me about "/etc/named.conf:23: when using 'view' statements, all zones must be in views"?
By shared plan I mean affordable $8 per month shared plans offered by most cheap hosting providers.
By using wordpress without wp-cache plugin, what's the maximum daily pageviews / page refreshes a shared plan can handle? I mean, in terms of CPU load, before having to upgrade to a VPS plan or sth.
Can anyone give me an approx figure? I'm thinking, if you got 1 visit every 3 seconds, it's 28800 pageviews a day? Any shared plan can handle that right? No other crazy stuff at all, just one domain on wordpress with pure text posts.
I know things vary host by host, but can you give me your own estimation on this?
I have a customer who is having trouble with his account and would like to help him out. He has a VPS from a totally different provider and his Bandwidth usage is 20x normal.
In his awstats, the internal page views is showing a huge number of views to totally different domain names such as Yahoo.com etc
Has anyone ever dealt with this before or have any experience with what it is and how to stop it?
