I don't think I'm breaking the rules of this newsgroup by posting this message, but one of client needs a price, for 2 web sites he wants me to host. Each web site receives 1 million hits a month.
I think I should get his own dedicated server for those 2 web sites.
He'll be using PHP and MySQL.

So, what's a reasonable price that I should charge him.

Is there anyone who hosts a web site with so much traffic, if I put him on a server with 100 other clients with a traffic of 20 gigs a month plus these 2 web sites, will it slow down my server. That's the last thing I want.

Any help would be appreciated
Let me know if you need more info

He needs to go with his own server, thats a ton of traffic. What type of sites are they.

1 million hits or 1 million page views? this can make a huge difference...
If it's 1 million hits, no biggy. a shared server should be fine. If it's 1 million pages, then depending on how complex his PHP/MySQL code is, he might need a dedicated server.

I think it's a business site Hostboy.
I always get confused, when it comes to pageviews and hits.
I know what pageview is, but what excacly is "hits".
I had so many different explanations of the term "hits"

It's simple once you understand the difference. A page view is just what the name suggests, how many times a page has been viewed. For the sake of simplicity, let's say a site consists of a single page. A million page views means that page has been viewed a million times.

A million hits is quite different. Let's say the page has 4 graphics on it. Since the server has to access each one (i.e. a hit) to download it when someone views the page, a single view would constitute 5 hits (the HTML page + the 4 graphics). That would translate to 200,000 page views in this example.

You can see the big difference between the two, hits and page views. Obviously, page views is the figure one would want to know in determioning the traffic a site receives.

SK, it's really quite simple. As you know, your web site is stored in seperate files. Whenever a file is read, that is 1 hit. A page can embed images <img> tags for example, those
will be downloaded and each one is a hit. Look at this very page, you will see many small icons for mail, homepage, search, profile, etc... each one of those resulted in a "hit." As for why it's a hit, that's because each one results from a seperate connection to the server.

You can try this from the unix prompt:
telnet http://www.yourserver.com 80

once connected, type this:
GET /

you will see the home page source on your screen. This is how the browser works. It gets the page, then disconnects. The page is then parsed and all embedded elements such as <img> result in additional hits (connections) to pull them off the server.

If you are not sure, I would suggest maybe you can try to host him on your shared server and if the load goes too high you can later move him to a dedicated server.