Site http://qlocal.co.uk
Uk traffic as covers every town (650) in the UK but mainly the town southport ie http://qlocal.co.uk/southport like a local news site plus forums local info etc..
1-1.5TB bandwidth a month
Currently on Rackspace but costing me £1200 pm ($1500pm). Was set up with when big business ideas but that is now history. Just need to manage costs. Existing server has been running some 7 years now.
Running VB 4.0.6 but heavily customised for town processes so hard to upgrade, two programmers who did this left years ago
VB stats
12gb database, could be reduced by lot of pruning as 10 years+ postings on there
18gb attachments in file system
5m threads
6m posts
(yes I could prune a lot of threads and posts but do they clear associated attachments as well?)
Guessing I need a dedicated server, have to install likes of memcache . Certainly had performance issues in the pst and had to tweak mysql settings and employ memcache.
APPRECIATE any comments please, I've got two months to move this unless rackspace drastically reduce their costs, unlikely.
Uk traffic as covers every town (650) in the UK but mainly the town southport ie http://qlocal.co.uk/southport like a local news site plus forums local info etc..
1-1.5TB bandwidth a month
Currently on Rackspace but costing me £1200 pm ($1500pm). Was set up with when big business ideas but that is now history. Just need to manage costs. Existing server has been running some 7 years now.
Running VB 4.0.6 but heavily customised for town processes so hard to upgrade, two programmers who did this left years ago
CPU | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz (16 core(s)) + 48gig ram |
Version | Plesk Onyx v17.0.17_build1700161028.14 os_RedHat el6 |
OS | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.10 (Santiago) |
Key number | PLSK.02145637.0072 |
12gb database, could be reduced by lot of pruning as 10 years+ postings on there
18gb attachments in file system
5m threads
6m posts
(yes I could prune a lot of threads and posts but do they clear associated attachments as well?)
Guessing I need a dedicated server, have to install likes of memcache . Certainly had performance issues in the pst and had to tweak mysql settings and employ memcache.
APPRECIATE any comments please, I've got two months to move this unless rackspace drastically reduce their costs, unlikely.
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