hosting help

[Cloughie]

Hi,

Not sure if this is allowed or not, but I need some personal 121 help from an experienced vbulletin/server person.

I currently run a dedicated server which is struggling with my forums at the moment and I am unsure what I need as the right solution. Perhaps a bigger server, perhaps even 2.

The forum to give you an idea is not exactly massive, but decently sized. Nearly 2 million posts, 100,000 threads and 35,000 members in total.

Active at peak is about 200 or so and about 700 posts per day.

I need someone that can look at my forum, what I am running and suggest the right solution to ensure it can run fast and stay up, and if possible implement that solution for me. Maybe my current one is even fine and just needs optimising.

I'm willing to pay well for a good person, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Mods, I am sorry if this is not allowed, if it isn't can you point me in the right direction to ask such a question to the right people?

Thanks,

A very frustrated Daniel :)

[RichM]

I'd suggest a Dual Xeon 2.8GHz or better with at least 2GB of RAM. SCSI or fast SATA drives would be a plus, but not essential.

[eUKhost.com]

Hi,

Not sure if this is allowed or not, but I need some personal 121 help from an experienced vbulletin/server person.

I currently run a dedicated server which is struggling with my forums at the moment and I am unsure what I need as the right solution. Perhaps a bigger server, perhaps even 2.

The forum to give you an idea is not exactly massive, but decently sized. Nearly 2 million posts, 100,000 threads and 35,000 members in total.

Active at peak is about 200 or so and about 700 posts per day.

I need someone that can look at my forum, what I am running and suggest the right solution to ensure it can run fast and stay up, and if possible implement that solution for me. Maybe my current one is even fine and just needs optimising.

I'm willing to pay well for a good person, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Mods, I am sorry if this is not allowed, if it isn't can you point me in the right direction to ask such a question to the right people?

Thanks,

A very frustrated Daniel :)

My suggestion would be to go for a Hosting company which will manage the server for you with good support. I think this would be a better option rather than paying server management company as well as hosting company.

[Cloughie]

I think you are right.

I have spoken with Rackspace who suggested the following:


OS Version / License
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
Hardware
• Standard-built Tower Server
• Single Processor, Dual Core Opteron 1212
• 2 GB DDR2 Memory
• 2 x 250 GB SATA Drive RAID 1
• 100 Mbps
Standard Drive Partitioning
• /boot - 100 MB, swap - 1024 MB, /tmp – 2048 MB, / -
remainder
External Storage Connection(s)
• Private Backup Network Connection

Is this going to fit the bill?

[Cloughie]

My current server appears to have 4 processors in it, is it going to be a problem moving to one?

Here is what my current server seems to have, 4 of these:

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2666.027 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 512 KB

[Cloughie]

Am waiting on an upgraded quote for:

amd 2214 with 4 gig ram.

Would this be enough?

Some advice would be really helpful as all my sites are down right now :(

[Cloughie]

ok, so they just quoted me for:

OS Version / License
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
Hardware
• Standard-built Tower Server
• Dual Processor, Dual Core Opteron 2214
• 4 GB DDR2 Memory
• 2 x 250 GB SATA Drive RAID 1
• 100 Mbps
Standard Drive Partitioning
• /boot - 100 MB, swap - 1024 MB, /tmp – 2048 MB, / -
remainder
External Storage Connection(s)
• Private Backup Network Connection

Price wise I am ok, just need to check ti will do the job.