My shared hosting company booted me for too much traffic and now I'm on mosso cloud hosting which is great as far as the service but I have to pay for every compute cycle over 10000 and thats going to cost me a fortune (about $600 extra dollars above the $100 i pay per month) ... I'm using about 20 GB of bandwidth a day too. Basically I'm looking for any tips. Could a dedicated server handle this traffic? What should I do? Should I just stick with mosso?
-1,050,000 unique visitos per month -600 GBs of bandwith per month -$90 in adsense earnings daily? (read your blog post ) You need a dedi Talk to iWhic here- they're great with service and everything is awesome. If you're looking for a big corporation behind you- go with the planet (theplanet.com) or hostgator (hostgator.com) I would go with iwhic though Thanks Mike
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Yep good work! I would definately recommend a VPS or a dedicated server, you will gain much better performance and will be able to handle a lot of traffic and concurrent users as you have resources dedicated to YOU only and not shared among many users... IwhiC do provide some pretty good dedicated servers at a good price (USA based) so i would check them out, but if your looking for European Servers (Netherland based) feel free to contact me as i have some good offers available. As i said, VPS could also be an option so feel free to PM me if your interested, i could offer a powerful VPS (USA or NL based) to suit your site for the price around the range your currently paying (<$100)... Regards, Edward Tobia Administrator/Founder EuroSRV Hosting Solutions MSN/Email: http://www.eurosrv.com
Thanks for the tips. The tech support at MOSSO told me that my compute cycles = using 7 dedicated servers at once and that sounds a little fishy to me. You guys are saying I could get by with just one dedicated server? I have a couple of concerns with switching to dedicated from MOSSO now - #1 being that my site would then be down during the transfer stage ... although I could do it in the middle of the night to make the problem less impactful. #2 being that this is a traffic surge - it will not stay this high long term - particularly after november 4! But I may have an increase of traffic in one of my other sites and I could use my dedicated server for that... so there's + and - ... Anyway my main question is: Can I handle 45,000 page views/2500 compute cycles/20 GB bandwidth per day on one dedicated server?
Hi, SoftLayer can get you a nice Dual/Quad core with cPanel, 4GB Ram and all the other nice features for ~ $200 per month. That can definitely handle your site(s), and cost you a fixed amount per month. I recommend you go there. Jay
I second this! You may also wish to go for higher configuration costing $400 to $600 a month, but that would be definitely better than the best you can get for your sites. Always go for reliable servers if you are making a lot ($90 a day) -Vijay
Can I ask what your sites are? It may be possible to make your site more static, resulting in lower "compute cycles".
It's a wordpress site so I don't know how I can really change it? --- A lot of different advice here. I have to admit I'm still not sure which way to go. It's a hard decision because my traffic burst is likely not going to last too long and this particular site won't have much traffic at all after November 4... so... But that being said I would like to have a dedicated server around in case I need it in the future and as good as Mosso has been service wise (no problems getting the site up and running and no down time) the price is going to be crazy (I'm estimating over $700 a month at the current rate.)
one dedicated server should be more than enough, I'd say the quad core 2.4 with RAID 1 should keep you going strong. You are onlu using 600GB per month so bandwidth with any dedi provider starts at 1TB. I would probably check out 100mb port though if you have higher traffic times, nothing sucks more than hitting a slowdown during peak traffic times.