Hopefully someone can advise me with this. I'm planning to get a dedicated server as down time is costing me too much money. On a peak day, my 4 sites between them will have 50k uniques, and 100k page loads. I need a server that can cope with this. I've already decided what company I want to go with, and this is what they offer: Small Server CPU: AMD 800Mhz RAM: 128Mb HD: 20Gb 7200rpm Bandwidth: 512Kbps Burstable Unmetered Monthly Quota: Unlimited / Unmetered IPs: 1 OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, others Support: 24/7 premium via Email + Telephone Mid Server CPU: Intel 1.7Ghz RAM: 256Mb HD: 40Gb 7200rpm Bandwidth: 768Kbps Burstable Unmetered Monthly Quota: Unlimited / Unmetered IPs: 2 OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD Support: 24/7 premium via Email + Telephone Large Server CPU: Intel 2.4Ghz RAM: 512Mb (upgradable to 1Gb) HD: 80Gb 7200rpm Bandwidth: 1.5Mbps Burstable Unmetered Monthly Quota: Unlimited / Unmetered IPs: 4 OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD Support: 24/7 premium via Email + Telephone Extreme Server CPU: Intel 3.2Ghz RAM: 1024Mb HD: 160Gb 7200rpm Bandwidth: 1.5Mbps Burstable Unmetered Monthly Quota: Unlimited / Unmetered IPs: 8 OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD Support: 24/7 premium via Email + Telephone (* upgradeable to 2Gb RAM and 2*300Gb HDs) Extreme Dual Server CPU: Intel Dual CPU 2.8Ghz Core RAM: 2048Mb DDR2 HD: 2*160Gb 7200rpm RAID 1 Bandwidth: 2Mbps Burstable Unmetered Monthly Quota: Unlimited / Unmetered IPs: 8 OS: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD Support: 24/7 premium via Email + Telephone (* upgradeable to 4Gb RAM and 3*300Gb HDs) THe smallest server would be more than enough storage wise, my sites total less than 1gb. But I'm assuming the bandwidth, cpu etc wouldnt be enough (though I have no idea). Anyone any suggestions? I've never used dedicated hosting before. I was going to ask the hosting company but figured they will just try and get me to take the more expensive packages. Any help will be great. Thanks
Don't use servers Bandwidth: 1.5Mbps Burstable Unmetered. Is better to use Metered (ex. 500 GB/month)
it's best to go with something like 2tb of bw on a 10mbit pipe, 100mbit bustable. I've been using LiquidWeb for over a year and they've been great to me. You need something that can handle the load and plenty of bandwidth. We get 2tb of bandwidth every month, but we're only using around 200gb right now.
I need to host in Hong Kong so its hugely limiting my choice. Looking at http://worria.com/en/hong-kong-server.shtml now, but I'd used Zentek in the past so was going to stick with them, if unmetered is a bad idea I'll look elsewhere. Thanks
unmetered can work just fine, but you need a large enough pipe. 512kbps is not going to be nearly enough. you need at least a 10mbit pipe to support that kind of traffic.
Bandwidth in Hongkong is expensive. If you want to stay in Hongkong, prepare your budget. Otherwise, you can try with a vendor providing service in US West coast. The network performance from Hongkong is good enough. With un-metered, you would be better to start at 10mbps. Lower can limit your performance. As mentioned, going with GB limitation on 100mbps line is even better. With your stats, 50K per day is not a big number. I guess a VPS with 512MB RAM can handle well your sites. Going with VPS, you will even have some more benefit - using newer hardware (reduce the chance of old-failed hardware) - pay less - can reload OS without extra payment, if you did something wrong with your VPS. Let us know if you want to go that route
Am I right to assume you are in Vietnam? Please pm me your msn or yahoo handles, I'd like to discuss this with you. USA host isnt an option for this project. thanks