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
My site will be powered by drupal and I want to know if a vps under $30 can handle instant and huge traffic that comes from digg
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been browsing Google and have learned a lot about how to read stats and what to look out for. However I'm not understanding what effects what.
We've increased
max_user_connections from the default 25 to 50 and
max_connections from 500 to 1,000
What area would this effect, RAM? CPU? If I'm having issues with CPU during my heavy load times, What should I look to optimize on our web site? We also disabled gzip on css/js files to prevent the server from over-working.
I've also run into the Today's stats for the server. Can someone tell me more about the part:
Quote:
Top Process%CPU 29.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
Top Process%CPU 28.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
Top Process%CPU 27.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
I'm hosting proxy sites on my vps and untill yesterday my proxy worked fine with no problems at all.
But while going trough my server graphs I found it odd that I had 0 bandwidth since the middle of yesterday.. I first supposed that this was due school's out [url]but this wasn't the reason I found out!
I tried testing one of my proxies to see if it was still working, but with any URL I try to visit I get:
The requested resource could not be loaded. libcurl returned the error: Couldn't resolve host 'www.google.com'
I suppose the DNS server crashed?
I already restarted the VPS 3 times including the DNS Server.
I learned the hard way last year when my website (on GoDaddy shared hosting) made the front page of Digg. GoDaddy suspended my account in a hurry (and didn't bother to inform me, but that's another story). I'm planning to get a VPS account with SLHost to prepare for future traffic growth.
How should I configure the server to best handle a huge spike in traffic? From what I can gather, there are a number of factors:
- Max HTTP connections (MaxClients in Apache)
- Max number of open file handles allowed (a kernel thing)
- Virtuozzo allowed TCP connections
This post at webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=4552677#post4552677
by Josh at SLHost outlines the defaults for their VPS servers:
Quote:
Are you referring to HTTP connections or other? By default, the MaxClients setting is at 256 clients and would need a recompile if you want more. The number of open files allowed is set to 1024 by default and can be raised. There are also Virtuozzo allowed TCP connections, which is set at 1200 and we've noticed that anything more than that should either be on an Enterprise VPS package or low end dedicated server at least.
Should I do any tweaking to the defaults if I want to survive another Digg onslaught?
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?
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.
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.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor the beginning, just wondering, what server configuration do you need to handle 150.000-200.000 uniques/month?
View 9 Replies View Relatedif 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.
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?
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.
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.)
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I had made a website which name is uscarland.com it is very attractive site therefore I had got Google Page Rank 3 But Now our site have losted Page Rank. Last weak I changed our DNS .
Can DNS effected on PR?
I wanna ask from you why I have losted our Page Rank.
when I searched my site at the google then google show it But I try to open then my site is not opened ? why
When I opened it directly then it will opened? How can Possible?
Which VPS package would I need from Host Gator to survive a front page Digg?
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Would a level 3 work?
Running wordpress with the wp-super cache plugin.
if there is a way to detect traffic spikes using weblogic server logs and depending on traffic load redirect to a static page, or load the dynamic page.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm reading about the fail-over system on precision effect's site, but am not 100% clear on a few points. Their live chat isn't active right now and I'd kind of like to hear from someone that actually uses the service anyway.
If there's not anyone who knows for sure, I'll just ask their live chat later on when their awake
Is their fail-over system actually a load balancing cluster comparable to cartika's hsphere plans?
I'm trying to decide between checking out cartika, precision effect, or opening another account with medialayer just for a couple more domains. Between the 3, price isn't really a concern, since the package I'd order from each, with addons and such comes out to within a dollar or two of the others.
Medialayer has been great, and I'll keep my site with them, but I have a couple other sites to put up, and am kind of drawn to the clustered solutions for max uptime per dollar.
I was searching for the web hosts that could survive the ****.com effect then I researched myself to compile this list of Web hosting providers that survive it. Web hosts that survive the **** effect
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to ask about suexec.
Currently I disable suexec in my dedicated server.
Which is better, to enable it or not?
What will happen to existing sites folder permissions if suexec is turned on?
I currently pay $9.99 USD per month for a dedicated server to host my little news site.
The specs are 667mhz / 256Mb ram / Centos / about 20-40mbit BW on a shared 100mbit port.
Anyway, I have a possibility to have one of my articles dugg soon, as It may become popular and I am wondering.. is there anyway i can tweak this box to survive DIGG?
I'm using wordpress at the moment, with lighttpd and mysql and I could possibly just make it a static http page I guess for the digging.
I think that even with lots of tweaking and serving a static HTML page, it may still die.
SO, anyway..
My maximum budget is approximately $25 USD per month, but I'd like to spend less, ideally.
Do you think I should A) get a 2800+ sempron / 2.8ghz p4 with 1GB of ram and unmetered 10mbit / 100mbit with 1.5TB
Or shared hosting? Or a VPS? or what?
OR just stick with what I have now?
Basically it will just be news articles / blog type stuff + some images.
The reason I say 10mbit unmetered is at least I know what my bill is going to be etcetc.
It has been a little while since I have frequented here, but I thought it was time that I step in here and offer up a review of Precision Effect over at www.precisioneffect.com after moving to them this past February. I have now been with Precision Effect for approximately 7 months.
I had been with a previous host, A Small Orange since June 2006, and it seemed that at least once a week I was seeing 20 to 30 minutes of downtime. After awhile, I got used to it, thinking that that is just what happens with your web host. Well after things continued to worsen over time, it got worse during the winter (end of 2007/early 2008), and I was having a number of up-time problems, including a day and half of downtime at one point (that I had posted about previously here: [url].I was finally fed up in February after I had to email their support services for a few days straight to continue to fix things.
Needless to say it was time to move as my site was growing in popularity and as I run an official message board for a #1 New York Times Best Selling Author (that I fund on my own), I felt it was only right to move to a more professional host that had better up-time and customer support.
Precision Effect is where it is at!
They completely took care of me during this stressful move from one host to another and did the complete transfer for me.
I have had a few questions here and there (very minor in nature), and they have always provided me with a professional and caring response (no matter how minute or how stupid I may have sounded to them). To me, this is a company who takes care of its customers.
The members of my site, never knew this, but one day after I was completing an update on my site, I made the mistake of deleting a directory on my server, that I believed to have been a backup file on my server, and wiped out my entire site! In ten minutes my site was backup and running from one of their backups...I don't know how they did it, but I didn't lose one post on my board!
If you are looking for a company that offers amazing up-time, professional, caring and courteous staff who will take care of you, then this is the web host for you! If this company continues to operate the way that they have for me for the past 7 months, then they have a customer for life.
This week I am about to pay for my 3rd year at Precision Effect. (Since December 2006) I've had several hosts in the years before, but after signing up for Precision Effect (heard about them on WHT), I have had absolutely no reason to change.
When I first signed up, I was worried that I would have to manually upload all the files to precision effect by first downloading them to my computer and then re-uploading them to Precision. After chatting with their tech support, however, I was able to give them a link to a rar file on my previous server which they downloaded directly to the new server and decompressed for me. They even ran a database restore with a backup file from the old database server. I could have done this myself (as I'm sure most of you could) but I really liked to see that the tech support took the time to get me settled in, especially since (at the time) I was only paying about $20/year. Past hosts would have just brushed me off.
In the past two years, I only had to contact tech support twice. Both times, I received an almost immediate response to the email (I usually email late at night) and it really felt as if they were dropping everything to fix my problem.
I'm still on one of their older (not their "LiteSpeed") servers, so I can't attest to the speed of the new ones, but my server has always been very fast. My websites are a bit graphics/database intensive and I've never had load time issues. I've also never had unscheduled downtime (a couple of times they would have some small amount of downtime for upgrades) that my "downtime detector" found, though its accuracy is only about once every 15 minutes.
So, this is a long-winded review, but Precision Effect is highly recommended!
I've been reading more and more posts about how a quality network card is important. We build all of our servers from new, quality parts but honestly we always rely on the built in NIC on the motherboard (which are brand name motherboards, but nonetheless)
How can a lesser quality NIC effect a server other than total failure of network activity? What signs should we look for and what are quality brands? My first guess is dropped packets or low throughput. I've also heard of people saying that load can go up from a bad NIC - is there any truth to that?