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02-21-2008, 01:42 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Server Load - What is "Good", What is "Bad", and What is "UGLY"?
Hello all!
I've just had a vB site up for about 6 months now, so forgive me for being a newbie, but I must ask a newbie question:
What should I expect for Server Load Averages on my forums?
As I said, I have a brand new site, with next to NO traffic, and these are the Server Load Averages currently in my AdminCP:
3.50, 5.75, 7.93
Is that good or bad? What does it mean? How do I interpet these numbers? Are lower numbers better, or higher?
I currently host with 1&1, but I will be switching within the week to HostGator, for larger capacity and hopefully faster speeds.
What should I expect to see for my server load averages once I move to HostGator? That will still be a shared hosting plan, but they are supposed to be much quicker from everyone's posts.
Any understanding you could help bring my way, would be appreciated!
Thanks!
JeffLast edited by NashChristian; 02-21-2008 at 01:48 AM.
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02-21-2008, 01:54 AM #2Temporarily Suspended
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What kind of account do you have with them?
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02-21-2008, 01:55 AM #3Eternal Member
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How do you feel about the current performance of your site at 1and1?
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02-21-2008, 02:01 AM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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The way I look at it...
if you have 1 cpu on the server, the load shouldn't be higher than 1. If you have 10 cpus on the server, the load shouldn't be greater than 10...
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02-21-2008, 02:01 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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I have a shared hosting account with 1&1, their "HOME" account. I loved them for a long time, but they have been flaking out a little more the past couple of years.
The big reason I'm moving, is because of the 100MB max MySQL, which is not sufficient to run Forum software.
This past year, my sites have frequently seemed a lot slower through them.
I'm going to purchase the "baby" shared hosting account at HostGator.
Anybody know anything about Server Loads?
Thanks!
Jeff
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02-21-2008, 02:03 AM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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02-21-2008, 02:09 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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It should say it in your control panel. Overselling hosts will generally be slower and have higher cpu load. To give you an idea, right now our cpu load is 0.4 with 4 cores.
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02-21-2008, 02:09 AM #8Aspiring Evangelist
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try uploading phpsysinfo
http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/
I know there is a ssh command, I forget it though :XLast edited by Soskel34; 02-21-2008 at 02:12 AM.
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02-21-2008, 02:15 AM #9Ottomatic backup specialist
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I don't think 1&1 provides SSH access, I could be wrong.
but if you do, type this in:
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02-21-2008, 02:19 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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SSH is not provided with my plan. I believe it is with some of the higher plans though.
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02-21-2008, 02:20 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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02-21-2008, 02:22 AM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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So the higher the load, the slower the server will respond to requests. Is that correct?
Thanks!
Jeff
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02-21-2008, 02:23 AM #13Aspiring Evangelist
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02-21-2008, 02:25 AM #14Aspiring Evangelist
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02-21-2008, 02:26 AM #15Ottomatic backup specialist
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It will tell you how many cores there are in the cPanel stats page.
My server right now: Server Load 1.48 (4 cpus)█ Otto Yiu
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02-21-2008, 02:36 AM #16Web Hosting Guru
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You can possibly write a php or cgi script that does something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
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system('cat /proc/cpuinfo');
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02-21-2008, 02:38 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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That might be a little bit "beyond" me.
Thanks though!
Jeff
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02-21-2008, 02:45 AM #18Junior Guru
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At what load should one be concerned? I always monitor my server load, but I have no clue what I am doing or looking for. I just try to make sure the server load is less than 1.00.
If you have a vps or hybrid server is the server load the same for everyone, or does everyone have different server loads?
What will be the result of having a high load? If you have a really high load, what should be done - upgrading a cpu, buying more ram?
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02-21-2008, 03:00 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Hi Jeff,
Welcome to WHT!
Let me preface this by first stating that I am absolutely NOT bashing any company - including the one you are currently with. I am sure they are a good company. That said, the load averages you have quoted are not good at all. As stated by another poster, assuming you have one CPU server, you never want to see the load average above 1.00. You have noticed your site being slow to load, because the servers load average is so high.
These high loads can be caused by many things on a shared server. Too many domains/accounts on the server, poor CGI coding, persistant database connections, DDOS attacks and so on.
You might ask your current host to be moved to a different server. If you are otherwise happy with them, this would allow you to remain there.||| Mike Bowers - Marketing Director
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02-21-2008, 03:01 AM #20Junior Guru Wannabe
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02-21-2008, 03:02 AM #21Web Hosting Guru
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At what load should one be concerned? I always monitor my server load, but I have no clue what I am doing or looking for. I just try to make sure the server load is less than 1.00.
If you have a vps or hybrid server is the server load the same for everyone, or does everyone have different server loads?
What will be the result of having a high load? If you have a really high load, what should be done - upgrading a cpu, buying more ram?██ HermeTek Network Solutions
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02-21-2008, 03:04 AM #22Web Hosting Guru
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SO I would just upload that as a PHP file into my hosting package, then run it via my browser?
Will that tell me the number of cores as well as the server load?
Thanks!
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02-21-2008, 03:06 AM #23Web Hosting Guru
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Code:<?php echo "<pre>"; system('cat /proc/cpuinfo'); echo "</pre>"; ?>
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02-21-2008, 03:07 AM #24Web Hosting Master
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02-21-2008, 03:18 AM #25Junior Guru Wannabe
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