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I've run a 250,000 pageview/month vBulletin forum (MySQL and PHP, you can judge for yourself how efficient you think this would be as a comparison) off a server
by Toucan 16y ago
I've run a 250,000 pageview/month vBulletin forum (MySQL and PHP, you can judge for yourself how efficient you think this would be as a comparison) off a server destined for the scrapheap:
1.8GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 1 x 5400rpm IDE disk
For both httpd and mysql.
The server occasionally got a bit loaded during peak times (geographically specific market), I'd say I was operating at roughly 80% of capacity, about the edge of comfort.
This was just a hobby site on the side, you may want to consider the additional costs of redundancy, off site data archiving, perhaps even splitting infrastructure across two datacentres and hosting providers just in case.
Ideally, you'd have access to the application in order to run your own capacity testing, can you arrange that?
- mattmiller 16y agoI am torn between a dedicated server or a VPS. I thought for a moment about app engine or one of the other non-standard cloud based systems but I am a little uncomfortable at the lack of control and costumer support. To answer your question, yes I can run some capacity testing. Your experience makes me feel comfortable about this; I don't mind upgrading to a more powerful server, or probably running a couple of servers, when/if usage pics up. I was looking for some numbers to base my estimates on and this is perfect! Thanks.