My website is victim of its success and exceeds constantly the allowed bandwidth/month. I'm thinking about moving it to a dedicated server and I've seen some attractive Raq4 offers but I don't know if it's a good choice in the long term.

My website needs 1.5Gb of webspace (and grows every day). 1Gb consists of JPG pictures (no, not porn pictures :mad: only cd cover scans). The rest of the webspace is html files and zip files. The site has 400-500 visitors a day and sometimes the traffic is 1-2Gb per day.

Instead of having static html files, I'm thinking about using a mysql database to generate the html files "on the fly". Also the pictures would be protected with cgi scripts to forbid link stealers and webcopier software. So the cpu load could be important.

Can a raq4 handle so many hits, traffic and cpu load ?
If not, what else ?

Thanks

Originally posted by francois
My website needs 1.5Gb of webspace (and grows every day). 1Gb consists of JPG pictures (no, not porn pictures :mad: only cd cover scans). The rest of the webspace is html files and zip files. The site has 400-500 visitors a day and sometimes the traffic is 1-2Gb per day.

We have a RaQ4 that handles 4+ gb of traffic per day (700k+ hits per day), without problems. It is not image files, but mainly PHP based pages -- so I do not think you should see any problems at all.

Instead of having static html files, I'm thinking about using a mysql database to generate the html files "on the fly". Also the pictures would be protected with cgi scripts to forbid link stealers and webcopier software. So the cpu load could be important.


I'll recommend that you use PHP or mod_perl instead of CGI scripts. It will drastically improve performance and response times.

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