Okay I'm looking to purchase a server for CompleteMyspace.com. It has tons and tons of images all over myspace which bogs down the server. I currerntly have the images hosted on a different server, but I would like to host the images and site on the same server. What do you think I should get server wise? I was thinking Dual Xeon 3ghz with 2gb of ram. I currerntly have a 3ghz with 2 gb of ram but it gets bogged down when both are on the same server. Should I look for something like 4gb of ram? I'm not sure what I should be looking for really. Thanks
dual xeon will do it, but with 2gb ram, i dont think so since image serving use a lot of resource, so the cache, so better consider higher amount of ram
I think you should do some more investigation. My first suspicion is that image hosting shouldn't really be consuming much memory or cpu. Dual xeon and 4gigs of ram seem like complete overkill to me. Basically all you're doing is serving a flat static file over a network - that doesn't eat anything much in terms of memory or CPU cycles. Your current machine should be able to handle a pretty high volume. (unless you've got some extremely high volume). My suggestion is that what you need is a bigger or faster connection to the internet. I think that you bog down because of your internet connection not your server. The way to test this is to try it and see if the pages load slow (which it seems you've already done). With the pages loading slow, check out the server load and see if you're actually consuming resources. If not, then the problem is your internet connection, not your server.
Better go for Dual Opteron Servers. We deal in fully managed dedicated servers managed by Highly Qualified Security Team. Please let me know if you are interested. Total Agreed.. Dual Opteron Servers gives better performance than the xeon servers.
Really? The advice around here is to focus on CPU's when the problem is serving high volumes of images? Where's the CPU needed in that process?
lol what? come on man... let me give you an example of it.... Role of CPU in serving high volumes of images. DDos an image on the server with P4 processor 2GB RAM with 700 request per second (very very low volume of request) then again DDos an image on the server with Dual Opteron Processor.. 2 GB RAM.. with again 700 requests per second... then slowly increase the number of requests to the server... make it 1000 then 1500 then 2000 requests at 10 sec. span... The P4 server will go down.. lol first it will blast off the apache....... lol rest of the story i wont tell... as the talk is limited to the images only. Do this test @ wheel... make a honeypot and work on it and you will come to know everything and wll get your ans. to your ques.
Opteron is the best for now, rather than xeon, yes i agreed with that. He gets bogged out using that spec, dont you thing he need more ??
Dual Opteron with 2 GB ram will be more thann enough as recent stats says... Dual Opteron can handle hell lot of requests as compare to dual xeon.
No I don't. Not until he has a look and defines what 'bogged down' is. That's hardly a strong technical statment that he's burning all his CPU is it?
I manage a few servers for heavy duty myspace sites like profiletweaks.com and myspacegeeks.com and gazzump.com etc., Tweaking apache helps - as does a minimum of 20mbps unmetered - maybe 30 - depending on how much bandwidth you're pushing at peak times. I agree with the other person who posted in this thread- it could be a few different things causing the slowness - including your pipe for bandwidth and your apache httpd.conf page among other things. Has anyone looked at it for you yet?
what kind of connection is this site on? 10mb/s port? 100mb/s port? If you are on a 10mb/s connection it could be the "bog" you are looking for. I used to have problems with my image/wallpaper site untill i upgraded the port to a 100mb/s. it only takes about 5-10 people downloading a large image at the same time to swamp a 10mbps port slowing your server to a crawl. Think about it. Most people today are on broadband surfing at 4-8mb/s or faster. If 5 of them hit a large image at once you will be overshooting your bandwidth temporarily. This isnt to say its always like this, just when you get a spike of people downloading large chunks of data from your server. My image based sites use about 15% of my CPU/RAM resources and its only a Celeron 2.4 with 1 gig ram. My bandwidth is quite alot higher than a 10mb/s port could hande at times. Other times it would work just fine.