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07-06-2013, 04:47 AM #1New Member
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Best host for 500k-1m Users daily
Hi, I have a site that could eventually get 500k-1m users per day. These numbers my seem kind of high but websites can take off very quickly. Some of you may say start off with a shared host but if my site grows as much as I think it can I could lose alot of users early because it wouldn't be quick enough.
I have done some searching around and thought I would just post here to get some more recommendations on what would be the best host.
People have said to go for a VPS. What do you think? Who would you recommend?
I see godaddy have this:
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• RAM: 2 GB
• Storage: 60 GB‡‡
• Bandwidth: 2,000 GB/mo
Could that cover 500k-1m per day? My pages load 1-2 images, text and sometimes a video.
Tell me what you think?
Thanks
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07-06-2013, 04:50 AM #2Hello World
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07-06-2013, 04:52 AM #3Managed Services Specialist
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Re: Best host for 500k-1m Users daily
Firstly, no. Not GoDaddy. Secondly for close to 1M views you are definitely looking at a good dedicated server. Something along the lines of 1230v2 or 1240v2, around 32Gigs of RAM, preferably 2 X SSDs. If you need a large storage capacity then SAS or SATA drives would work as well.
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07-06-2013, 04:56 AM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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I would start on a small, affordable VPS e.g. $3-10 first and build your way up. A VPS/Shared Hosting will not be able to handle almost 500/1Million views per day and you would need a dedicated server if not several.
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07-06-2013, 06:15 AM #5Junior Guru
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From what you have said, it sounds as though you are not getting that many visitors at the moment. In which case, you may be able to start on a VPS, but I doubt a VPS will cut it once you get anywhere near to those kind visitor numbers. To handle those numbers, you would be looking for a dedicated server.
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07-06-2013, 06:59 AM #6New Member
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Ok thanks for your replies.
At the moment the site is still in development, so I guess I could launch it on a VPS and then once/if it reaches those kind of numbers I could always upgrade my plan to a dedicated server right? That way I wont be spending more $$$ than I need at first.
I had another look around and see alot of people recommending knownhosts are any of you familiar with them?
This package fits in with my budget:
VPS-3
Fully Managed & Secured
1536MB Guaranteed RAM
65GB RAID-10 Disk Space
2x Priority 8+ CPUs
3500GB Premium Bandwidth
$45 per month
Would you be able to give a rough estimate of how many visitors that could take per day?
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07-06-2013, 07:06 AM #7Hello World
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07-06-2013, 07:38 AM #8Managed Services Specialist
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07-06-2013, 11:07 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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No way will a dedicated server do 1M daily pageviews. Be realistic. Do you have any experience of high traffic sites/applications?
A platform we built for popular news portals that did a couple of billion page views in a 12 month period had a complex 5 webserver load balanced front-end, SAN and a master/slave MySQL setup.
Another platform for a popular site but with smaller storage demands has 6 x webservers, 1 database, 1 storage with a lot of caching and software load balancers and this doesn't even do 1M a day.
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07-06-2013, 11:34 AM #10Managed Services Specialist
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07-06-2013, 11:38 AM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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Best host for 500k-1m Users daily
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07-06-2013, 11:54 AM #12Web Host Reviewer
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For 1M a day, you need a private cloud. Even a dedicated will likely be brought to its knees. I know of just a few hosts that offer this. As Matt says, Namecheap probably has one. I know that EuroVPS has one. These are probably about $750 - $1K per month. But if you bring in 1M per month, you should have plenty of income. At best, if the site is split up some (forum one on server, wiki on another, etc), you can use multi dedi servers without a cloud. I know of one site that's powered by 3 servers this way.
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07-06-2013, 03:52 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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07-06-2013, 05:09 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Multiple dedicated servers will be required for most million visits per day sites. But is all depends on what kind of content you are serving. If you have a simple static HTML page, then a single dedicated server might handle it. If you have a PHP application (like WordPress or Joomla), then you probably won't be able to handle a million visits per day on a single dedicated server. A single GoDaddy VPS has little to no chance of being able to deliver a million visits per day. A VPS is a good solution to start with, but you will out grow it long before you hit a million visits per day.
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07-06-2013, 09:45 PM #15Temporarily Suspended
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I would recommend not one maybe two dedicated servers doing in cluster/cloud
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07-06-2013, 10:14 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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Rather than going for VPS'
I personally recommend for starting out a Kimsufi plan from OVH. The servers there, you can pick up (dedicated, not VPS) from as little as £11 p/month, and considering I have had 9 in total with them for over 7 months now, they're amazing.
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07-07-2013, 06:36 AM #17New Member
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