I am contemplating having a dedicated server. Can someone who is experienced please suggest if the following server specs are more than enough to handle 25 websites generating a total of 10,00,000 hits per day? PENTIUM 4 2.4 GHz 1 GB RAM 100 MBPS CONNECTION 1000 GB BANDWIDTH Any idea whats max the above server can handle comfortably? Thanks to all who respond.
Quad core if you want to run all of those. Have you considered splitting your sites up between servers? Or (if applicable) using one server as a dedicated database server?
1 million or 10 million hits per day? If 1M, it would be fine. If 10M, you will need better server. More RAM or more CPU, or more... all it depends on what you are doing on that server
Hi, 10.000.000 unique users, if they transfer 1 byte each, you allready transfer 10MB Problem is if those visitors come on your website, they might transfer 500kb/ person (500.000 bytes to keep it easy) 500.000 x 10mb = 5.000.000 MB = 5000GB DAILY traffic. This would mean 30x 5000 = 150.000 GB traffic monthly. You will need a 1gbit for that. Either way, the amount of users is also too big for the type of server. Much regards,
Thanks for the answer but not 10,00,000 users only hits expected Users per day is no more than 5000-7000 i really am not sure if a server with above specs can not handle 25 sites with static pages, 5000 users a day or 1 Million hits/day and can someone please clarify if 360000 hits per hour (100 visitors/hour) is way too much for shared hosting?
It depends on your sites, if your sites are just static then no problem, but if they are forums or other then you need more.
3600 / unique visitors? This is either proxy or autosurfing. I still think in that case you will need a dedicated server. However, if it is a weblog or something, you will not have any problems.
A hit is not 1 user :| 1 user will not always download the same amount. Dude you need to give more info. You need the file sizes of the site averaged and you need the current data of pages per visit average over each of the sites. Multiply the two numbers together and thatll give you the average amount of traffic required per visitor. Then multiply this number by the AVERAGE daily traffic amount over the last week and that will give you your required daily traffic. Multiply by 30 for the average monthly bandwidth required. You will then need to find yourself a dedi with this amount of bandwidth... If you are gonna be using more than 500gig bandwidth i would suget a dual core. If you go over 1500gig bandwidth I would suggest a quad core. (alot more factors go into choosing a cpu and its more the amount of viists than the bandwidth but for most sites bandwidth is a good judge of what is required) But 1 gig ram is a no no. For any server these days. I advise 2 gig minimum if you will be doing that many hits to the server. You will like make it overheat lol. But if your bandwidth is over 1000gig use 3 gig... over 1500gig get 4.
Thanks Killermule for well written explanation. I wish there was some write up somewhere that could explain in general what kind of load a dedicated server can handle in terms of daily visitors, bandwidth etc. Without a clear guide line one appears to be taking a chance.
It would give you a general idea, but it all depends on: - Are you using a control panel? cPanel is a memory hog, DirectAdmin is light weight but not that user friendly. - Apache? Lighttpd? - Any MySQL? - What security software do you have? Generally, lighttpd will allow you to deliver more data than apache could, but it doesn't have as many plugins and isn't capable with cPanel. If i were in your situation, i'd be trying to get some external help to optimize your web site coding and the server itself.
Really You must have bad experience. I haven't seen any DA user says so. cPanel has too many things in their GUI, meanwhile DA is much cleaner. Very easy to use!
i use DA on all of our servers, and i have to say, it is much cleaner then CPanel. And all we want to do is in it, so why pay more for CPanel. My points are for DA. Peter