Hosting for 10000 simultaneous users on a VB board

[mihai11]

Hi,





What kind of hosting configuration would support that ? Do I need to go dedicated ? Currently, I am on a VPS with these characteristics:


HDD Space: 1 GB
Bandwidth: 32 GB
Yearly cost: $124.70


On 1 machine there can be up to 100 VPSes.


My questions is: what kind of hosting do I need in order to be able to support 10.000 simultaneous connected users !? How about 5000 ? How about 1000 ?


Notes:
1. Pay attention: I am not speaking about 10.000 registered users.
2. The VB board is “clean” - no mods of any kind. (I know that the more mods you have, the heavier is going to be on server resources)






Regards,
Razvan

[Sysop9001]

A dedicated server for 10.000?
But it cost money

[Steve Machol]

That will undoubtedly require multiple servers. One won't cut it.

[mihai11]

That will undoubtedly require multiple servers. One won't cut it.

I understand. With a modern server (let's say 4GB RAM and SCSI drives) how many users (an approximation, of course) can you serve ?

[Zachery]

You'd need a small farm more than likely with split servers for their own processes.

3-4 front end webservers, one dedicated to static files.
1-2 mysql database servers for replication and searching.
Possibly a memcache server

I'd guess at the very least.

[mihai11]

You'd need a small farm more than likely with split servers for their own processes.

3-4 front end webservers, one dedicated to static files.
1-2 mysql database servers for replication and searching.
Possibly a memcache server

I'd guess at the very least.


Do I need to make any modifications to Vbulletin to support a configuration like you mentioned ?

[eUKhost.com]

You will need a high end Dedicated Server with powerful processor.

[mihai11]

You will need a high end Dedicated Server with powerful processor.

So you are saying that 1 powerful server would do it, correct ?

[Zachery]

So you are saying that 1 powerful server would do it, correct ?
1 will not be enough.

Most of what i mentioned would not need any specific configuration from vBulletin.

[eUKhost.com]

So you are saying that 1 powerful server would do it, correct ?

Yes, I think one powerful server will do the job with 8GB of RAM and much powerful processor.

[Steve Machol]

I know of one customer that has 40,000 concurrent users and they are using 8 servrs. With all due respect I seriously doubt one server will be sufficient for 10,000 concurrent users. So don't be surprised if you find you will need more servers after setting this up.

[john1744]

Agreeing with Steve and Zach, I post on many very large vB forums and I know they usually need at least 3 or more servers.