I have a VPS with 768 RAM. There is only one forum site there. It's not that busy. But CPU load average is always high. What's the problem with the host? What caused the CPU load average become high? It turns red.
Most hosts oversell their services. You can ask your host to move your account to another node that is not over crowded.
Frist accuse your host to oversell, you must analyze your server and see if you are under attack or if your configuration are good to process fast each request of your forum.. But consider to move to a dedicate server, there are much cheap offer and you have your own server.
Hello Raff, Dedicated server is too expensive to order this time. My site is not that big. I'm still weighing my options. Indeed there are oversellers vps hosting companies.
You do not need a VPS either if you have just one fourm. There are a ton of quality web hosts (like the one I work for) that provide servers with less than 10 clients on each server.
I did not want to get in trouble so I didnt say it before, but the name is Stream101 since you are asking.
Site has 500MB database size and bandwidth consumption per month is 100GB. Do I need a VPS for that or just a shared hosting?
Shared hosting would work, provided the company's stuff is in order. Check out some of our packages, they might be of interest.
If it was a VPS overselling issue, you wouldn't see the CPU going in the red area from within the VPS. Instead you would just experience slow loading of the pages. What you describe looks more like unoptimized web server / web site configuration or I/O issue. Try to check whether the server is swapping to much.
Thanks P. Hall. But the host does not want to admit that they are standing in the wrong side of the world. All the blame is thrown to my site. My site was fine when it was hosted in a shared hosting plan. But when I transferred to a VPS, everything became slow.
That can also mean that you had more system resources at your disposal, when you were on shared hosting, compared to the reserved resources that you now have only for you on the VPS.
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I assume you are using Linux? If so, there is a program called sysstat that you can install to track various performance metrics. On VPS systems, I often see disk IO as an issue. This is especially the case for disk intensive operations such as a database. I would install sysstat and collect some metrics.
Hey bohol sometimes cheap VPS services are REALLY slow and oversell a lot, especially if they say "unlimited" for any bandwidth or disk space. I had 6 blogs running and I quickly outgrew godaddy's slow servers and thought I needed a VPS, well turns out a VPS isnt necessarily faster or more powerful, you just have more (sometimes too much) control over server stuff. A Good fast shared hosting provider would be more than adequate unless you need more server control, which I think you don't unless you are trying to run complex applications... Just try to find one that doesn't oversell their resources as that seems to be the problem at hand.