Server Size/Speed

[psinewe]

If I am looking into a Dedicated server for running a few web sites and several vbulletins, how do you try and get the correct size/speed of server? Particularly as it related to vbulletin issues?

[ccd1]

Strongly depends on how many sites and how much traffic you are expecting. Regular HTML pages and simple PHP pages typically require more RAM while stuff like what vBulletin uses will require some processing power.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by psinewe
If I am looking into a Dedicated server for running a few web sites and several vbulletins, how do you try and get the correct size/speed of server? Particularly as it related to vbulletin issues? how many vbs you intend to host and how many concurrent users and posts per day you guestimate ?

[psinewe]

10 vb running

maybe 100 users concurrently total.

[ccd1]

Originally posted by psinewe
10 vb running

maybe 100 users concurrently total.

If that's distributed throughout all 10 vBulletins, then it's nothing a Pentium 3 with 512 MB RAM and a 7200 RPM IDE hard drive can't handle.

If it is 100 users on each, then get ready for dual processing.

[psinewe]

What are ballpark number to expect off these 2 server specs?

1.13 GHz Pentium III
256 MB SDRAM
(upgradeable to 4 GB, 4 slots)
18 GB SCSI Hard Drive
(3 Hot Swappable Bays)
RedHat Linux or FreeBSD
50 GB Data Transfer
(calculated on average total)
8 IPs

Or

1.26 GHz Pentium III
512 MB SDRAM
(upgradeable to 4 GB, 4 slots)
36 GB SCSI Hard Drive
(3 Hot Swappable Bays)
RedHat Linux or FreeBSD
50 GB Data Transfer
(calculated on average total)
8 IPs

[eva2000]

Originally posted by psinewe
What are ballpark number to expect off these 2 server specs?

1.13 GHz Pentium III
256 MB SDRAM
(upgradeable to 4 GB, 4 slots)
18 GB SCSI Hard Drive
(3 Hot Swappable Bays)
RedHat Linux or FreeBSD
50 GB Data Transfer
(calculated on average total)
8 IPs

Or

1.26 GHz Pentium III
512 MB SDRAM
(upgradeable to 4 GB, 4 slots)
36 GB SCSI Hard Drive
(3 Hot Swappable Bays)
RedHat Linux or FreeBSD
50 GB Data Transfer
(calculated on average total)
8 IPs if single cpu probably 150 - 250 concurrent mysql connections which would equate to probably 200 users online.. but it's hard to put a finger on depends on what software is used and how it's configured as well

definitely choose Redhat over FreeBSD!

[psinewe]

For our uses, mostly VB, is there much of a difference in these 2 servers? Big difference when trying to get off our feet.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by psinewe
For our uses, mostly VB, is there much of a difference in these 2 servers? Big difference when trying to get off our feet. not much but if you go with either above systems i'd get as much memory as you can afford