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I don't know which dedicated server plan to choose

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by duzap, Jan 28, 2015.

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    Hello,

    I have one website based on wordpress.
    Lately I started to have a huge increase in traffic and I must have an upgrade. (I am on a shared hosting right now & free cloudflare service)
    when I reach about 550 sessions in real-time - the website just crash.
    I want to upgrade to a dedicated server but I don't know which plan to choose.
    I am afraid that in the future I will have more increase in traffic and then I will have to upgrade it again.
    I believe I can reach about 2000 users in real-time or even more if I had a server that could handle the traffic

    What can be my best choice right now?
     
    duzap, Jan 28, 2015 IP
  2. MilesWeb

    MilesWeb Well-Known Member

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    Consider a Quad core server with 16GB RAM. Installing litespeed on it will help to serve concurrent connections to the website. What's your budget for the dedicated server ?
     
    MilesWeb, Jan 29, 2015 IP
  3. yize

    yize Active Member

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    If you can afford it, get as much ram as you can and ssd drives. This will help the server complete the read/writes due to your site running wordpress.

    Have you installed a cache plugin as well such as - https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
     
    yize, Jan 29, 2015 IP
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    duzap Active Member

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    Don't you think it's too much?
    I want to save costs as much as possible
     
    duzap, Jan 29, 2015 IP
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    MilesWeb Well-Known Member

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    If you could confirm with your budget, DP members can suggest you with a server configuration you should consider.
     
    MilesWeb, Jan 30, 2015 IP
  6. Tearabite

    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    Just curious if you've fully optimized your site? In addition to Cloudflare do you have static caching setup (ie; W3Total Cache)? Unless you have a really crappy host now, 500 or 600 realtime visitors should not crash a well-optimized site
    ?
     
    Tearabite, Jan 30, 2015 IP
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    anyNode Greenhorn

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    You might just want to look into an SSD VPS instead of a dedi just yet. It'll also cost you less for a cPanel license on a VPS than on a dedicated server.
     
    anyNode, Feb 1, 2015 IP