question about venturesonline

[leagleaze]

I am with ventures online, have been since March of this year. We are using the Virtual private server, vps5000. I have about 1100 members, almost 25000 posts, and on average, have about 75-100 people online at any given time. I'm very happy with them, excellent up time and response etc etc.

I have been wondering if it would be possible to drop down a level of service to the VPS3000. There is considerably less memory available at the 3000 level and so I have been a bit worried that this would slow my site down a lot.

Any one have any thoughts or experience with this? Since my site runs on donations I'd sure love to save the 30 bucks a month.

Thanks

L

Edited to add a link to the services available with the VPS http://www.venturesonline.com/hosting/vps.html

[Floris]

Do you have somewhat root access on these virtual private servers ? Can you check for statistics on the stress on the cpu/ram/mysql/harddrive ? if so, do that and compare it against what you get for the 3000 one.

if it fits, you will do just fine, otherwise, doubtfully.

[leagleaze]

Do you have somewhat root access on these virtual private servers ? Can you check for statistics on the stress on the cpu/ram/mysql/harddrive ? if so, do that and compare it against what you get for the 3000 one.

if it fits, you will do just fine, otherwise, doubtfully.

Yeah I do. And it looks like we are under on everything, but very close on memory, which is why I hesitate to drop. I think probably, I have to stay where I am. I asked them if they would be willing to create something somewhere in the middle on price, so we could get more memory, but no go.

I wish they were more customizable.

[Floris]

Yeah, it seems there aren't too many options to pick from in the config screen @ https://www.venturesonline.com/cgi-bin/vps3000/config.cgi

maybe in the future :)

I'd stick with 256mb ram though. A site has to have 512 at least, imho.

[leagleaze]

Yeah, it seems there aren't too many options to pick from in the config screen @ https://www.venturesonline.com/cgi-bin/vps3000/config.cgi

maybe in the future :)

I'd stick with 256mb ram though. A site has to have 512 at least, imho.


Yeah, I know. We are pretty fast now, but as we grow, well, we'll need more I am sure. We've grown pretty quickly I guess, though not as fast as some. Well, we are starting to get advertising revenue, once I am sure we have enough to pay for our hosting I'll probably look at something else. Sooner or later I'm gonna want to get someone to monitor the site for me, it is kind of hard practicing law and running a web site. Especially an anonymous web site. And frankly, I know nothing about running a big web site, and am pretty clueless about vbulletin to boot. I put it there and it works, that's all I know.