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[Pacesetter007]

Is this server specification good enough as a shared web hosting server with a good amount of wordpress blog + PHP applications on it.

PWM X6 UltraPower
CPU- AMD Opteron 3280 Octo-Core 8x 2.4GHz
Ram- 32 GB DDR3

Can it host wordpress blog(s) with average of 500-1K daily visitors?

Like how many of such blogs can the server host? 100? More? Less?

Thanks for your thoughtful responses.

[matessim]

Probably in the thousands, maybe more if its optimized, that's a VERY powerful server.

[Rob Hivelocity]

Very nice server, you should have no difficulty in getting a thousand accounts. If this is your fist time hosting this type of solution, I would partner up with your provider and discuss management, or hire an offsite management company.

[V7Host]

That server should be more than fine. Remember to get decent hard drives as well, preferably SAS in a RAID setup.

[matessim]

If you're actually buying the actual server, and not renting it or something, remember to consider Colo costs, there's no point in having that sit in your house.

[Flapadar]

Your disks will be the biggest factor in how many accounts the server can hold. Your current specs would be overkill unless your disks match the great specs.

[matessim]

Originally Posted by Flapadar

Your disks will be the biggest factor in how many accounts the server can hold. Your current specs would be overkill unless your disks match the great specs.

He could probably ramdisk like 10,000 wordpress sites atleast .

[Pacesetter007]

Originally Posted by Rob Hivelocity

Very nice server, you should have no difficulty in getting a thousand accounts. If this is your fist time hosting this type of solution, I would partner up with your provider and discuss management, or hire an offsite management company.

Thanks for your response. I am presently using an i5 8gb ram machine with 1tb HDD etc...I am just wondering if this is an upgrade or downgrade in terms of how fast they can run wordpress sites.

The 32gb ram is a serious temptation...+ the 8 cores got me thinking...should I expect an improvement in this wise? i5 machine or the machine with the specs above?

Thanks

[Flapadar]

Originally Posted by matessim

He could probably ramdisk like 10,000 wordpress sites atleast .

True, but if his client base isn't entirely wordpress then it would be nice to have disks to cope with the load that isn't cached

Originally Posted by Pacesetter007

Thanks for your response. I am presently using an i5 8gb ram machine with 1tb HDD etc...I am just wondering if this is an upgrade or downgrade in terms of how fast they can run wordpress sites.

The 32gb ram is a serious temptation...+ the 8 cores got me thinking...should I expect an improvement in this wise? i5 machine or the machine with the specs above?

Thanks

Seen as most webservers spawn child processes, they benefit from multi-core,multi-thread CPU's, so yes, you should see a benefit. Make sure you get a good array of disks and you can have a very large number of domains per server.

[Pacesetter007]

Originally Posted by Flapadar

True, but if his client base isn't entirely wordpress then it would be nice to have disks to cope with the load that isn't cached



Seen as most webservers spawn child processes, they benefit from multi-core,multi-thread CPU's, so yes, you should see a benefit. Make sure you get a good array of disks and you can have a very large number of domains per server.

Thanks for all the thoughtful responses. I really appreciate them.

Please what do you guys mean by disk type? Can you please explain?

Thanks

[Flapadar]

Originally Posted by Pacesetter007

Thanks for all the thoughtful responses. I really appreciate them.

Please what do you guys mean by disk type? Can you please explain?

Thanks

Currently I believe you're using a standard SATA drive - which has relatively low iops. SAS drives (while having a smaller capacity) have higher iops generally, with SSD drives taking the lead further (with an even smaller capacity)

RAID0 can be used to increase the number of iops (by striping sectors) - but this leaves your drives vulnerable to partial data loss - so including RAID1 mirroring too - RAID10. This requires 4 or more drives though.

So, for the fastest disks, you could use 4xSSD in RAID10. But, that's very expensive and has a low capacity generally, so I wouldn't recommend that. You should calculate whether or not 4xSAS or 4xSATA would suit you better.

Alternatively, if you aren't looking to put a lot of domains per server, you could use 2xSAS/SATA in RAID1, but I would see that as a bit of a waste of the amazing CPU you have.

[Pacesetter007]

I was given 2 x 2000 GB SATA II, 7.200 rpm

Is this any good for what Flapadar had been saying above?
In additional, what's a modest price to expect to pay for this server? No management, no addon software...just raw machine.

Thanks

[Dave G]

Including how much bandwidth (transfer)?

[layer0]

Originally Posted by Pacesetter007

I was given 2 x 2000 GB SATA II, 7.200 rpm

I would revise this. You're probably going to see poor disk I/O performance with lots of sites on the server if you don't.

Go for something with 4 or more drives in RAID 10, and preferably better than just SATA.

Consider using SSDs, maybe just for the OS and MySQL databases.

Also, 32GB RAM really isn't all that much these days, and RAM is not too costly. It would not hurt to increase that in my opinion.

[Pacesetter007]

The server is already pre-configured with this specs...is sata II too bad an idea or it it usable on a shared hosting environment?

What price per month should I expect to pay for this?

Finally, if this is all the modification I can get, am I good to go?

Thanks