I am window-shopping for my first dedicated server (O joy! Control will finally be mine, all mine! ) for my movie multimedia website (all PHP/MySQL dynamically generated, with a reasonable amount of media files populating the site). I have low cash-flow at the moment, but revenues will more than pay for the server expenses, so I looked around for decent, well-rounded, inexpensive mean machines that won't have me mortgage my neighbor's house. Reading posts at GeekVillage and Webhostingtalk, I narrowed down the list to the following first two deals:
I've been eyeballing the Red Hat servers at Catalog.com, for example a Celeron 500, 128MB, 10GB HD and 50 Gigs bandwidth for 200$, no set-up fees. Extra features and bandwidth are quite affordable (2.5-5$/Gig). Add only 130$ for a PIII 650, 256MB, 9GB SCSI.
It's either a good price, or there's something I have overlooked...
There is also Tera-Byte.com's dedicated RaQ3 boxes starting round 200$ with x86 (AMD?) 300Mhz, 256MB, 20GB HD and 40 Gigs bandwidth (128Kbps line). Ok, there's a 500$ deposit to shell out first...
Finally, a third, recent discovery was Cheapservers.net with a PIII 750Mhz linux box with 256MB, 30GB SCSI and 100 gigs bandwidth for 300$ and no set-up fee. They are a new service and I haven't found much about them.
Questions: My site currently serves 300,000 pageviews per month and will increase to 1 million/month by year's end. Would any of those two dedicated servers (Celeron or RaQ3) withstand the load of the site, the vBulletin forum (ghost-town now, but it will grow soon) and still leave some room for growth? Does anyone have recommendations on how much RAM I should have in total to have a smooth, purring, friendly server marching along?
P.S. This message would have served as a reply to TechTalk, but since I have no personal experience with these dedicated servers I started a new thread here
I've been eyeballing the Red Hat servers at Catalog.com, for example a Celeron 500, 128MB, 10GB HD and 50 Gigs bandwidth for 200$, no set-up fees. Extra features and bandwidth are quite affordable (2.5-5$/Gig). Add only 130$ for a PIII 650, 256MB, 9GB SCSI.
It's either a good price, or there's something I have overlooked...
There is also Tera-Byte.com's dedicated RaQ3 boxes starting round 200$ with x86 (AMD?) 300Mhz, 256MB, 20GB HD and 40 Gigs bandwidth (128Kbps line). Ok, there's a 500$ deposit to shell out first...
Finally, a third, recent discovery was Cheapservers.net with a PIII 750Mhz linux box with 256MB, 30GB SCSI and 100 gigs bandwidth for 300$ and no set-up fee. They are a new service and I haven't found much about them.
Questions: My site currently serves 300,000 pageviews per month and will increase to 1 million/month by year's end. Would any of those two dedicated servers (Celeron or RaQ3) withstand the load of the site, the vBulletin forum (ghost-town now, but it will grow soon) and still leave some room for growth? Does anyone have recommendations on how much RAM I should have in total to have a smooth, purring, friendly server marching along?
P.S. This message would have served as a reply to TechTalk, but since I have no personal experience with these dedicated servers I started a new thread here
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