beansbaxter
Sun 18th Jun '06, 2:35am
My vBulletin forum has gotten to the point where a dedicated server is required. My host provider has informed me that my forum is hogging up too much CPU and memory resources causing the server to run too slow and to get a dedicated server.
Currently, my forum has 1900 members and is averaging about 90 new members each month. According to Google Analytics, we are averaging about 875,000 hits a month on the site. We get roughly 1200 new posts a day.
The site is growing very very fast. I need a dedicated server that is going to be good to go for quite some time now.
What specs do I need? Specifically, how much processing power and RAM do I need?
On a side note, how do I move my site and database from a hosted plan to a dedicated server? I have never ran a dedicated server and I do not know how to set it up and configure it.
Once the site has been moved to the dedicated server, how long should the site be ok on it before I should consider upgrading again? Is there any server upkeep that I need to know about or does the site just run good to go no matter what?
Thanks for any help in advance! I am frustrated but I guess this comes with the growing pains uggg
Currently, my forum has 1900 members and is averaging about 90 new members each month. According to Google Analytics, we are averaging about 875,000 hits a month on the site. We get roughly 1200 new posts a day.
The site is growing very very fast. I need a dedicated server that is going to be good to go for quite some time now.
What specs do I need? Specifically, how much processing power and RAM do I need?
On a side note, how do I move my site and database from a hosted plan to a dedicated server? I have never ran a dedicated server and I do not know how to set it up and configure it.
Once the site has been moved to the dedicated server, how long should the site be ok on it before I should consider upgrading again? Is there any server upkeep that I need to know about or does the site just run good to go no matter what?
Thanks for any help in advance! I am frustrated but I guess this comes with the growing pains uggg