Dear all,

My site currently hosting on Linux platform.

The site currently having 100000 to 150000 unique visitors per day and around 450000 page views per day.

Some of the page also using mysql but it's not that much.

I would like to know can a RAQ4 machine handle the above work load?

Thanks for suggestions.

Maybe, but I certainly wouldn't advise it. It depends upon all sorts of criteria (file sizes, traffic distribution, etc) which you haven't specified, but if a Raq4 could handle your site it probably wouldn't be able to handle much more.

If I were you I'd get a "real" server instead; if you've only got one site then the major advantage of Raqs (their control panel) is more or less irrelevant anyway.

Thank you very much.

The file size is not that large. It's all htm or php page.

The monthly traffic is aroud 150 to 200 GB/month.

There is a great chance that we will sign up with efreeservers.com to get a Dell server.

A Raq4 with 512MB of RAM should be able to handle this just fine, especially if most of your content is static. On a high volume site that is not exclusively database-driven, your main contstraints are RAM, hard drive speed, and processor speed (assuming of course you have enough bandwidth).

Contrary to popular mis-conception, Raqs can handle a lot of traffic, but they need RAM and proper configuration that you cannot do through the control panel (which then voids your Cobalt warranty).

But -- there's always a but -- I would recommend a highly generic linux server that has a basic default install of a major linux distribution. If you get a Raq, you are tied into the Cobalt Linux system, which is basically a modified version of RedHat that lags about a year or behind the most current RedHat release. Dell machines also suffer from the same type of problem. Look for a FreeBDS, RedHat or similarly generic linux machine. This will allow you to heavily customize the machine to suit your needs without constraints imposed by the vendor.

If your web site is critical and you have the resources, I would consider having someone use a standard linux distribution and fully customize the server enviroment to suit your needs. You can gain a tremendous performance boost by tweaking apache, mysql, disk parameters and other items to suit your site. I have seen processor loads drop by as much as 50% by simply tweaking a few variables and using caching software.

Originally posted by huck
Contrary to popular mis-conception, Raqs can handle a lot of traffic, but they need RAM and proper configuration that you cannot do through the control panel (which then voids your Cobalt warranty).

I know it's an old thread, but what kind of settings should i think about when i want to have a high traffic site with only static pages on a RAQ, especially a RAQ 3.

i'm wondering the same. my site isn't *too* high traffic, however, it's almost 95% dynamic, so, i'm looking at ways of tweaking mysql, apache, and whatever the heck else i can...

i found this from searching around the board, the section on apache looks interesting, i don't know if that helps...

http://thingy.kcilink.com/modperlguide/performance/index.html