cycloop
Sun 9th Jan '05, 1:04pm
Hi all,
Currently we are running a forum based on phpBB. We have an average of 60 concurrent users (within a period of 15 minutes), who read a lot. The number of posts ranges from 50 - 200 a day. We are running on a shared host and we're getting complaints that we are using too much server resources.
Here are some statistics of the site:
. Avg Max
Hits per Hour 2058 5931
Hits per Day 49398 76186
Files per Day 37093 59000
I am planning to buy a dedicated server, and to move the forum to vBulletin. I need the server to support some growth, let's say up to an average of 100 concurrent users with a peak capacity of 150 users. The server will only run this website with the forum, no other significant processes.
We are considering the following hardware as a dedicated server:
- Single processor AMD Athlon XP 3000+, with 1 Gb memory, 2x 40 Gb RAID 1
We will be able to configure the server ourselves, and we do have enough technical knowledge to compile and configure apache/php/mysql, put databases in memory, etc.
My questions are:
- Will this server be able to run vBulletin with a maximum of 150 users?
- Anyone willing to make an educated guesstimate on how much concurrent users this server should be able to handle?
- Can anyone share their experiences with similar servers? How much users are you able to run?
Thanks for your time,
Menno
Currently we are running a forum based on phpBB. We have an average of 60 concurrent users (within a period of 15 minutes), who read a lot. The number of posts ranges from 50 - 200 a day. We are running on a shared host and we're getting complaints that we are using too much server resources.
Here are some statistics of the site:
. Avg Max
Hits per Hour 2058 5931
Hits per Day 49398 76186
Files per Day 37093 59000
I am planning to buy a dedicated server, and to move the forum to vBulletin. I need the server to support some growth, let's say up to an average of 100 concurrent users with a peak capacity of 150 users. The server will only run this website with the forum, no other significant processes.
We are considering the following hardware as a dedicated server:
- Single processor AMD Athlon XP 3000+, with 1 Gb memory, 2x 40 Gb RAID 1
We will be able to configure the server ourselves, and we do have enough technical knowledge to compile and configure apache/php/mysql, put databases in memory, etc.
My questions are:
- Will this server be able to run vBulletin with a maximum of 150 users?
- Anyone willing to make an educated guesstimate on how much concurrent users this server should be able to handle?
- Can anyone share their experiences with similar servers? How much users are you able to run?
Thanks for your time,
Menno