tnedator
Sun 14th Oct '07, 3:00pm
I am leaning towards one of these three VPS accounts that all cost roughly the same:
ServINT 512MB
PowerVPS 640MB
JaguarPC 768MB
I can greatly offset the cost of the VPS if I eliminate all my shared hosting accounts. Currently I have 6 cheap shared hosting accounts ranging from $6 to $12 a piece.
One of those shared hosting accounts has 8 add on domains, but all but one is used mostly just for email accounts. There are some files uploaded, such as images for forum signatures and stuff like that, but primarily they are just email domains.
One of the domains runs a Mambo site, that gets only 50-100 visits a day, which I use simply as a news agragating site (Broncos07.com). Also, that same site has a PHP script that creates a sig image on the fly, that grabs the latest five news headlines and builds a sig on the fly. As this is a forum sig image, the PHP script that builds it is called 1,000 or so times a day (last month, the script was hit 27,000 times). The script has a .png file extension, but that is only so it will work with forums IMG tags, it is actually a PHP script: http://www.cherokeeflyer.com/sig/sig.png
I also have a script that runs every 10 minutes that grabs news headlines from a newsgator (RSS agragator site) account and then parses it and inserts the new RSS headlines into the Mambo DB.
Beyond that, I have some other static images (again, primarily smaller images for sigs) that might get 500-1000 hits a day.
My vBulletin site has:
Threads: 3,224, Posts: 31,846, Members: 208, Active Members: 171
400-800 new posts a day
15-35 logged in members at a time (58 most ever)
While I expect some member growth, I don't see any dramatic changes in the new post numbers or online members in the short term. It is possible we will have a user spike and get 60 or 70 members on at one time, but the above numbers are likely to remain pretty steady.
So, if I co-locate those sites I described above (20+ email accounts, a Mambo news site, some image hosting -static and dynamic- for forum signatures), is my vBulletin performance likely to suffer, or will the VPS likely handle all the sites with no problems?
Thanks for the advice.
ServINT 512MB
PowerVPS 640MB
JaguarPC 768MB
I can greatly offset the cost of the VPS if I eliminate all my shared hosting accounts. Currently I have 6 cheap shared hosting accounts ranging from $6 to $12 a piece.
One of those shared hosting accounts has 8 add on domains, but all but one is used mostly just for email accounts. There are some files uploaded, such as images for forum signatures and stuff like that, but primarily they are just email domains.
One of the domains runs a Mambo site, that gets only 50-100 visits a day, which I use simply as a news agragating site (Broncos07.com). Also, that same site has a PHP script that creates a sig image on the fly, that grabs the latest five news headlines and builds a sig on the fly. As this is a forum sig image, the PHP script that builds it is called 1,000 or so times a day (last month, the script was hit 27,000 times). The script has a .png file extension, but that is only so it will work with forums IMG tags, it is actually a PHP script: http://www.cherokeeflyer.com/sig/sig.png
I also have a script that runs every 10 minutes that grabs news headlines from a newsgator (RSS agragator site) account and then parses it and inserts the new RSS headlines into the Mambo DB.
Beyond that, I have some other static images (again, primarily smaller images for sigs) that might get 500-1000 hits a day.
My vBulletin site has:
Threads: 3,224, Posts: 31,846, Members: 208, Active Members: 171
400-800 new posts a day
15-35 logged in members at a time (58 most ever)
While I expect some member growth, I don't see any dramatic changes in the new post numbers or online members in the short term. It is possible we will have a user spike and get 60 or 70 members on at one time, but the above numbers are likely to remain pretty steady.
So, if I co-locate those sites I described above (20+ email accounts, a Mambo news site, some image hosting -static and dynamic- for forum signatures), is my vBulletin performance likely to suffer, or will the VPS likely handle all the sites with no problems?
Thanks for the advice.