Requirements For In-house A/V Hosting? How Much Traffic
Jan 23, 2007
I'm trying to come up with a cheap , middle of the road, and high end set of solutions (list of equipment) for in-house hosting of video-casting / audio-casting on a site that can get big spikes of traffic at times. With some particular attention /consideration to the back-end, server requirements/needs. When or at what point does one need a a dedicated server for media? How much bandwidth is needed? how much traffic is a breaking point?
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Jan 12, 2009
Currently my company's websites are hosted on a dual xeon beast with 8 gigs of ram and two SaS raid 5 arrays(i think). The bottle neck occurs with our single T1 connection. Our traffic is using an average of 97% of that T1 24 hours a day. We're looking into adding another T1 at the price of $600 monthly (bandwidth is expensive in our rural area).
I'm wondering if moving to two less powerful dedicated machines (one for db and one for apache) in a datacenter would be a better use of our money. For instance, The Planet is offering a Intel Xeon 3040 1.8 GHz Dual Core server with 1gb of ram and cPanel (something we don't have but I would prefer to have) for $175/month. Two of those would be cheaper and free up bandwidth for user PC's in-house.
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I'm in the (very) early stages of developing a MySpace application and I'm looking for advice on hosting package needs. I've got an extensive software development background, but nothing at all web related, so I really don't know where to begin, and I don't want to shoot myself in the foot from the get-go.
I assume a simple shared hosting package would suffice for development, but I don't know how long or far it would scale, what the upgrade path would be, or what difficulties I'd encounter, so I'm here with this question.
I'd appreciate any suggestions whatsoever on what's key for this kind of application: package type, minimum data transfer, connections, cpu time, OS, database, language support, etc.. That includes any experiences anyone might have had, the host they've used and liked or disliked, or what they offer themselves (if that's allowed on the forum) and so on. Anything at all.
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Has anyone ever heard of Random House hosting? Know anyone that is using them? Reviews?
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Let's say someone is on the final step of setting up VPS hosting service. There are 2 options.
1. To launch Virtuozzo based VPS hosting
2. To develop own VPs management software
I would ask you to tell me 2 things. What would you do, would you spend a month or 2 in developing VPS control panel or you'd start with Virtuozzo.
The other question is can you please post information about Virtuozzo pricing and dealers. The guys from Parallels didn't respond to email send before 48 hours. I'll give them a call but still want to know what do you think?
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I am about to set up a domain to build landing pages for PPC advertisements on, and maybe later a full fledged website. At the moment I have a shared hosting account in the Netherlands, that's where I'm from. Now I'm wondering if there will be any issues to consider when I send US traffic there.
I like the hosting company I am with now, they're cheap and they have good service, and I haven't found one is the US yet that offers the same so I'd rather stay with them if it's not necessary to switch.
Does it matter much when I host my site on a Dutch server?
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Apr 2, 2009
How much traffic can a typical $5/mo shared hosting account support?
A lot of them claimed "unlimited" bandwidth and storage. Of course there's no such thing as unlimited.
I have a site based on Python, Django, MySQL or Postgresql. It doesn't have any video or other bandwidth heavy elements, but the whole site is dynamic, each page takes about 5 to 10 DB query, 90% reads, 10% writes.
What kinds of traffic can a shared hosting account support for a site like that?
At stackoverflow.com, someone stated that a $5/mo shared hosting account can typically support 10-20,000 unique users per day or 100-200,000 pageviews/day. Does that sound about right?
Any recommendation for a good hosting company that'd suit my needs? My site will start small but hopefully will ramp up quickly. I'd like a hosting firm that can support that growth.
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Jul 10, 2008
We expect a site on one of our boxes to receive a significantly high level of traffic tomorrow as it is an event that will be covered and has already been covered by the press. The site operator expects > 100,000 hits a second.
It's a PHP page that pulls records from a database and lets people submit a form to insert a record. We have already put a caching script in place so that refreshing the page does not result in doing another database query.
The site was overloading a shared server, and we've moved it to one of our VPS boxes - it's the only VPS on the system at the moment. The box is a Quad Xeon 5410 with 4GB RAM with a 4 10K RPM drives in a RAID5 setup.
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Can anyone give me some recomendations of some traffic accounting packages?
I'm looking for something that drives the backend stats you get as a customer when you login to your Dedicated Server providers control panel. Traffic graphs / total throughput stats etc
The obvious way to do this is to ping the switch ports and generate graphs and stats using RRD tool. The other way to do it would be to mirror the external switch port and generate stats from there (this would discount 'internal' traffic between boxes, although there will be a seperate private LAN for this).
We can obviously roll our own, but to save on man hours are there any out the box packages (open source or otherwise) to generate the graphs, traffic levels and dump it all out in a nice customer friendly report (i.e not something like Cacti).
In other words, what does everyone else use...or is it a case that everyone has based the backend on mrtg / rrdtool and built their own reporting lauyer ad-hoc on top?
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Personally it does not bother me much because I know how to change it simple. I'm a big fan of HostGator otherwise. They do provide a great service. I just find it weird your 404 page is a HostGator ad with a coupon code.
Is this a popular thing I have just never run into? I know it is the norm with free hosting providers.
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creating a setup that will host a site which is expected to receive 50-60K visitors in the first few hours after its launch. The site is membership based and the backend (member system) runs on PHP5-MySQL5.
Here is what I have thought of until now.
Site's sales page (which also happens to be the first page that visitors hit) hosted with Amazon S3 service. All public media files are off loaded to amazon S3 service to keep the number of requests on the hosted setup to minimum.
At the front we can have a high performance firewall like Cisco ASA 5520 followed by two dedicated load balancers in Active/Active state.
Behind the load balancers we have 3 front end servers acting as web-servers. These have SAS disks, 4GB RAM, RAID 1 setup, Dual Xeon Quad core processors each.
Behind the front end servers - we have a dedicated load balancer for the database cluster.
The database cluster consists of 3 Storage/API nodes and one of the front end servers acts as the management node. Each storage node has 8GB RAM, Dual Xeon Quad core processors, 4x RAID 10, SAS setup.
The private network is on a GigaLan.
Do you see any possible/obvious flaw in this design or anything that should be added/subtracted from the setup?
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Current Forum users: 550,000 users
Traffic: 700,000 to 1,000,000 page views a day with 70,000 – 100,000 visits a day.
Monthly bandwidth needed around : 18000GB (18TB)
Now can someone tell me what kind of solution i need to host this website & keep sit running smoothly.
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i work for a small but fairly successful and quickly rising company. we're looking for hosting for our corporate site. we could host it ourselves but that would put an extra burden on engineering and we're stretched pretty thin as it is. we moved to bluehost on my recommendation. i've been using them for 2 years now and never had a problem. unfortunately less than two days after we switched the server is now down. it's been down for over 4 hours now and we've blown past several estimated times from tech support. i know this is a rare thing but it doesn't look good and i don't think the higher ups much want to stay with them. so here's some info about our site. requires SSI, CGI, Perl 5.8+ with Perl DBI 1.32+ and Perl DBD::Mysql > 2.1021+ Perl Modules, ImageMagick 6.0.6+ Perl Module or GD Perl Module (GD.pm 2.17+), PHP 5. small traffic with occasional spikes. approx 200 uniques daily. occasional spikes if we happen to show up in the news. we do have the possibility of showing up in all major US news outlets. it's happened once before which resulted in almost 1,000 uniques which quickly tapered back off to normal levels. we're currently using 154MB of disk space and 8GB of bandwidth last month. we need multiple ftp accounts to allow marketing and contract web devs to upload their own files. probably around 10 or so would be adequate. email not required. we have a hosted exchange server. uptime and quick response to server outages important. being a corporate site and not our application downtime isn't truly horrible but it is perceived as such. this site is our identity. we're a tech company and it looks bad when our corporate site is down. even when our application isn't.
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I'm working on launching this online store for a poster designer, and we're becoming more and more aware that we need a really robust and fast server. This site is looking at extremely high levels of activity whenever this designer posts a new poster. We're talking 1700 people surfing the store (downloading med-high resolution poster images) and 300 posters sold in 16 seconds kind of thing.
So, we need a really robust hosting, to work with PHP5 and MYSQL.
My previous go-to hosting provider was Lunarpages, but their customer service has gone down the crapper, and I've just about had it with them. My main questions are:
Should I be looking into getting a dedicated server, or are there hosting companies that can handle this kind of traffic on a shared server? I don't have experience administrating a server, so if we got a dedicated one we would have to pay the host to do at least some of the setup/administration, I would assume?
Dedicated server or not, what's a hosting company that has really good customer service, where we can be assured of getting somebody knowledgeable without having to wait on hold for 20 (or even 10) minutes?
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I have noticed that resellers traffic stats (looks like email) are not being updated and just show 0.
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What traffic monitor would everyone recommend for sites that have as many as 5,000 to 10,000 hits an hour?
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I'm currently looking for co-location in the US (preferably West coast) for a 2RU server with a 100mbit port with around 500gb-1TB of bandwidth, with the option to upgrade bandwidth as necessary.
I have two requirements though - first, I need a provider who can do the initial server setup for me. I want to provide them with a blank, empty server and I want them to install the operating system (no control panel), install the relevant software (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Exim) and do an initial server hardening. Obviously expect to pay a higher setup cost for this
Second, I need a provider that does two things - they need to offer dedicated servers as well as co-lo (as I will need a handful of dedicated servers at some point in the future for 2-3 months only), and I need them to be able to place these servers on to a private switch/VLAN so that all bandwidth can be pooled between the servers and used as necessary, rather than having individual port limits. I would probably be looking at needing a 1gbit port in total for these servers (or 100mbit ports to each server). And I need someone that can sustain a data transfer of a few hundred mbits from these servers in terms of their infrastructure and connectivity
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If this is too abstract, then I would like to ask aobut the real world power consumption of two boxes. 1 E5410, 8GB of RAM, 2 SATA disk maybe 10K RPM. The other will have two E7320, 24-32GB of RAM and 3 10-15K disk.
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with a single server running PHP and MySQL.
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A site with a mysql db with 100,000+ records in a single table and executing simple select statements on the table with 100,000+ records at a rate of 50 queries per second? (All other things should be negligible at this scale).
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May 14, 2007
My question is not purely theoretical. My partners and I are starting a new web hosting company and would like to hear your opinion before we do something completely wrong. Our understanding of the market tells that there are 2 major components of that business: reliability and cost, so we decided to keep cost at the average rate but to bring reliability as high as possible. So our points were as following:
1. Reliable server hardware: IBM/HP/Dell servers only, using redundant hard drives in RAID1, redundant power supplies.
2. Reliable and fast server support: Server vendor provided 7x24 onsite support with 4 hour response
3. Reliable network: Connection to at least 4 major internet providers
4. Reliable power: Dual UPS provide 2 redundant power lines to each server
5. Powerful servers: Dual CPU 4-Core Xeons; up to 32 GB RAM; 750 GB SATA II disks
6. Remote diagnostics and support: Servers equipped with Remote Management interface to diagnose problems and create server support ticket with the server vendor automatically.
7. Reliable datacenter: Toronto Front 151 datacenter provides physical security, fire prevention, network connections, power generators
We will provide VPS hosting and considering SUSE/Virtuozzo as our main virtualization platform. We have not decided yet either to purchase its support through Novell (SUSE distributor) or SWsoft (Virtuozzo vendor).
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* Permissions to execute third-party applications (i.e. exe files)
* Permissions to execute Internet Explorer
I've used Jodohost before and they were ok. Also was considering weberz.com, but I don't if either will meet these requirements. Any ideas?
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Feb 20, 2008
I have a cople of dedicated servers. Both run the same software, phpBB forums. However, with the top command I see one of them need as much as triple memory for every apache process than the other. Here are the details:
Server 1
Hardaware: Dual Opteron 2212 + 4 GB RAM + 2 SAS 146 GB drives. CentOS5 x64
uname -a
Linux s1.tp.netmanaged.net 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:02:30 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ps auxf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 10316 684 ? Ss Feb14 0:03 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:11 [migration/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Feb14 0:01 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:25 [migration/1]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Feb14 0:02 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [migration/2]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Feb14 0:00 [ksoftirqd/2]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [watchdog/2]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [migration/3]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Feb14 0:00 [ksoftirqd/3]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [watchdog/3]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [events/0]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [events/1]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [events/2]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [events/3]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [khelper]
root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 [kthread]
root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kblockd/]
root 64 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kblockd/]
root 65 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kblockd/]
root 66 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kblockd/]
root 67 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kacpid]
root 180 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [cqueue/0]
root 181 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [cqueue/1]
root 182 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [cqueue/2]
root 183 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [cqueue/3]
root 186 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [khubd]
root 188 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kseriod]
root 279 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:40 \_ [kswapd0]
root 280 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 1:02 \_ [kswapd1]
root 281 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [aio/0]
root 282 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [aio/1]
root 283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [aio/2]
root 284 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [aio/3]
root 436 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kpsmouse]
root 497 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_]
root 503 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [ata/0]
root 504 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [ata/1]
root 505 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [ata/2]
root 506 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [ata/3]
root 507 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [ata_aux]
root 513 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_]
root 514 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_]
root 515 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_]
root 516 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_]
root 517 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 17:38 \_ [kjournal]
root 549 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kauditd]
root 1184 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kedac]
root 1700 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kmpathd/]
root 1701 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kmpathd/]
root 1702 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kmpathd/]
root 1703 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kmpathd/]
root 1734 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:03 \_ [kjournal]
root 1736 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb14 0:00 \_ [kjournal]
root 3220 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Feb14 1:59 \_ [kipmi0]
root 5770 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 00:15 0:02 \_ [pdflush]
root 12519 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 00:48 0:02 \_ [pdflush]
root 583 0.0 0.0 13480 1624 ? S<s Feb14 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d
root 2272 0.0 0.3 23588 13780 ? Ss Feb14 0:00 /usr/sbin/rest
root 2287 0.0 0.0 81800 772 ? S<sl Feb14 0:03 auditd...
Do you realise that the x64 Opteron is needing an avarage 1.7 %MEM for each Apache process while the Xeon just needs 0.5 %MEM?
Since both use the same version of phpBB and the same version of CentOS5, while the only difference is one is x64 and the other i686, I wonder if this has to do with the way memory is handled by the x64 CentOS5.
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Currently i am running on a Mediatemple DV base VPS that provides me 256MB guaranteed RAM, and a processing speed of appx 190Mhz and is on Virtuozzo.
Currently my site keeps going down and i dont know what to do...
Can anyone please suggest me a better VPS for my site.
My Budget is around 60$.
I checked linode and they are providing 900MB of RAM guaranteed, along with 533Mhz of processing, but the only problem i feel is that they are running on UML.
How good is linode?, anyone used them before, any previous experiences.
how stable is UML?, is it better to have Virtuozzo or UML.
I am actually looking for Xen servers,Can anyone suggest me on Xen?
Vpsland is providing Xen servers, do anyone have any previous experiences with Vpsland,Linode.
Even JaguarPC is providing a VPS for 512MB ram, on vitruozzo or 59$,how good is JaguarPC, any previous experiences...
If you can provide me more services that fall within 60$ and a minimum of 512MB ram,
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