I am thinking of moving a VB discussion board to a Raq4 server. The forum has 1000 members and 200 to 500 messages per day. The actual sites pulls about 20 GB per month.
Can any one point to a very busy discussion board on Raq? (30 to 200 members online at same time)

WHT. :)

I think you can run that forum on a RaQ. But the only problem I see that you would have to keep either only 1 website on it and also shut down the daemons which you don't use such as ASP and etc.


-Omair

Webhostingtalk.com is on a raq 4????
Are you serious?

I was just kidding.. :D


-Omair

heh, WHT server info is posted here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/misc.php?action=about

I highly doubt it ...

I have a server with P3/850 Mhz and 2GB of memory with 30GB of 7200rpm HD. Currently I am hosting 2 VB forums with a total of 100000 page views daily and about 500-600000 hits per day with total online users at peak time of around 400-500. Server load (before apache and mysql tuning) could reach as high as 70 for the 15 minutes average. The server is pushing around 120-150GB of transfer monthly, or around 60GB after some compression (mod_gzip and/or build in gzip compression that comes with VB)

Now, you may not have as busy forums as either forum I host. But then, your raq is not as powerful as my srever. With AMD K5/450 and 256MB RAM (?) and most probably 5400rpm IDE HD, your raq is below my server specs ... The IDE, memory, and CPU may become your hardest bottlneck in server heavy dynamically driven sites ... Here is my observation regarding the system bottleneck ... on my server, when the total online users are around 200-300, the server load is quite normal ... The server load will go double/triplle if the total online users go around 350-400 ... and much more if the total online users go around 450+

Anyway, if you do have to use RAQ, try to get 512MB memory. You do not want to overload your HD as swap memory (remember, your IDE is pretty busy already serving mysql and apache at the same time). Two drives is better than one since you can also put mysql on one drive and your html pages on the other...

Actually, your site is not raelly that busy ... But if you are expecting your site will go much busier than this within few months, then raq will just be your temporary solution, for sure ... If I were you, I would go for a semi dedicated hosting on a really powerful server ... Besides, you are free from the burden on maintaining the integrity of your server ...

cheers,
:beer: