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05-03-2011, 06:10 PM #1Newbie
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Handling 100k+ Visitors daily
I was recently on shared hosting getting about 5k unique visitors daily, and drastically moved up in search engine for various keywords bringing me about 100k-120k visitors daily. The site is running on Wordpress.
My site was down constantly so I needed to get off of GoDaddy shared hosting, so I found a VPS and tried it out. The site was slow and crashed frequently which lead me to trying a dedicated server, which I am also having huge problems with slow loading.
The server specs are good with a 1GBit connection, costing me around $300 / mo. What should I do? Should I be running on more then 1 server? I have never had to use anything but shared hosting so I am new to this.
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05-03-2011, 06:31 PM #2
You should hire a system administrator to manage your servers has you stated you are new and dosen't have the knowledge to manage the servers by yourself.
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05-03-2011, 07:31 PM #3Web Hosting Industry Expert
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Depending on the plugins you're using and what caching you are (or are not) using it would be pretty easy to configure your server to sustain that traffic.
Ultimately I would agree with UnderHost above me, and get a system administrator who is experienced with this sort of thing from optimizing the server itself including Apache/LiteSpeed/Nginx and MySQL as well as WordPress.█ Michael Denney - MDDHosting.com - Proudly hosting more than 37,700 websites since 2007.
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05-03-2011, 07:32 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Agreed. That is just a little over 1 hit per second, which any modern server should be able to handle with proper optimization.
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05-03-2011, 07:32 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Depending on the site content, you should be okay with just the one server. Ask your host if they offer managed hosting. If they do not, start looking elsewhere. Your going to lose your rankings if your site is always down and slow.
100tb.com has managed services.
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05-03-2011, 07:45 PM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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I agree too, since you are relatively new, investigate a hosting provider that has experience in the industry and offers systems already optimized for the traffic you anticipate.
We've been pretty happy with a litespeed+eaccelerator+memcache solution.
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05-03-2011, 07:46 PM #7Disabled
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Check out the Varnish cPanel plugin from Unixy.
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05-03-2011, 07:49 PM #8Web Hosting Evangelist
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Hello,
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05-03-2011, 08:26 PM #9WHT Addict
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You listed the net speed for your server but not the cpu or ram. You might check that first. If you only have 2gb of ram and a single dual core cpu you might need to upgrade to a quad core and 4 to 8 Gb of ram.
Even if you don't have a managed server you should still be able to ask your provider to check and see how your resources are doing and see what they recommend. I would personally start there and then if needed look into either hiring someone to manage your server or getting a provider that manages your server for you.
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05-03-2011, 08:39 PM #10Newbie
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05-03-2011, 09:07 PM #11Temporarily Suspended
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Try to optimize your website design and use a managed VPS with sufficient memory.
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05-03-2011, 09:43 PM #12Newbie
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considering you are getting a lot of hits, if you are running on apache, it's probably overloaded with requests for images/js/css, etc ...
try moving all the web assets to an nginx server or just replace the whole server to litespeed ...
enabling opcode caching (or wp cache plugins) will help too but i'm guessing you already did that, so my guess is your server is probably overloaded with static files requests.
this is because apache doesn't scale very well with concurrent users due to it's inefficiency at serving static files.
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05-03-2011, 10:03 PM #13Newbie
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05-03-2011, 10:08 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Or you could try CloudFlare... that would take all the images/css/js load off of your server. It can't hurt to try it out considering that their basic plan is free. If it doesn't work out for you, than it doesn't work out for you, but it could really help you out in this situation.
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05-03-2011, 11:14 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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05-04-2011, 12:30 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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Take a look at this presentation on scaling Wordpress for high traffic for some ideas, and then hire someone to optimize your server. I think you have the hardware in place to make the site work. With the hardware and memory you have, I think its all about configuration at this point. You might even ask at Wordpress who they recommend for configuring a server.
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05-04-2011, 12:47 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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We can also use firefox extension like Yahoo's YSlow to see what elements in the Site are causing maximum loading time and optimize your site from that angle.
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05-04-2011, 11:17 AM #18Newbie
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Looks like I'm going to need to find another company. WiredTree is just not working out and I've had nothing but problems already. My site was more stable on Shared hosting then this.
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05-04-2011, 01:07 PM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-04-2011, 01:24 PM #21Newbie
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RE:
I have a site with around 200k visits a day according to analytics's. Obviously this accumulated over time, when I had similar traffic to what you have been getting, a 4GB Linux VPS seemed to cope pretty well with it.
I suggest you get a Linux VPS with some decent specifications.
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05-04-2011, 01:46 PM #22Newbie
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05-04-2011, 02:05 PM #23Newbie
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yeh, i was going to say that you did a very good work on traffic. cant imagine i have same for my projects!
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05-04-2011, 03:10 PM #24Newbie
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Switched to Litespeed and the site is now extremely fast. Solved all issues.
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