I have 3 sites that have massive traffic. So much that Dreamhost limited my connections to 100 per 5 seconds. This has KILLED my income and almost cut it in half if not more. I need something that will let say 300-500 connections at any given time if not more. I need a change but not sure what I should do. Ive looked at the prices for dedicated and VPS but just need some input. Ive also thought about just buying my own and have a local company place it on thier shelves. Please give me your opinion. PGZ
There must be some limit or they wouldnt be limiting me....Im nowhere near the BW they have giving me. PGZ
Hi, I prefer you Dedicated server with 100 mbit unmetered bandwidth port. Mostly 10 mb lags at the uniqes u are getting
if you are gona use linux, you have also apache to support more than 255 connection simulteniousely. you need to recompile apache to support any connection more than that.
Dreamhost has limits on more than just bandwidth. I've heard some people having good experience with Dreamhost, but my customer finally left them because she had so much trouble with them. She went to her own VPS. Personally I have a dedicated and that's what I would recommend you get. I don't know what advantage their might be in buying your own and co-locating. I didn't want to go there. Also, depending on how tech savvy you are you may want to get something that comes with a support package or you can hire an outside company that specializes in that. Jennifer
since you have high traffic, i assume you should have enough revenue from that to pay off a dedicated server. Go for it instead of VPS. The reason why dreamhost limit probably because the server is shared with other user, so any abuse of resource from any one user will affect the others. Go for dedicated server. Limitation depends on the hardware + software and how you configure it. With your own server, you definitely is able to maximize it to suit your high traffic website. Even it is cant support anymore, do hardware upgrade (in the future when it happens).
I have gone ahead and gotten my own dedicated and have moved all sites that werent with DH there. Moved tar files of both sites on DH to new server but have to dump SQL and move also. This is one thing I dont like about DH they have a custom CP and t isnt user nice when you want to move a site away from them. Im having trouble dumping both SQL files to move. Any Dreamhost experts out here ??? PGZ
Do you have command line access on your current machine? If so, you want to execute the following: mysqldump -u username -p databasename -a -B>sometextfile.txt That'll dump the database to 'sometextfile.txt'. Copy to the new server and run: mysql -u username -p<sometextfile.txt which will install it into the new machine. I concur that the dedicated was the way to go. That way you can tweak as needed for your circumstances.