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01-14-2014, 08:09 PM #1Newbie
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Managed VPS for 450k pageviews blog?
Hello, i run three wordpress blogs and 1 phpbb forum, all on the same server. One of the wordpress blog is responsible for 95% of the traffic. I'm currently getting 450k monthly pageviews and growing.
I'm currently on the shared plan at Hostgator. However my website is going down at peak times (around 130), getting 500 errors, etc. This happens usually for hitting the CPU process limits. I have cache enabled for all sites. Besides, the sites are still growing, so I would start to get even more frequent downtimes.
The bandwidth compumption is currently around 50GB (I expect it to grow slowly) and the disk usage is 4GB.
Also, I need a VPS managed since I don't know much about server config on linux. Besides that, sometimes I run into some problems, which I need a good support (doesn't necessarily need to be live). I really like the hostgator support, which sometimes take a while but they always resolve my issues, even editing my htaccess, etc.
So I would really appreciate some VPS (if it's the best choice) suggestions. I'm on a tight budget and at Hostgator they told me to choose the VPS Level 5 which is $104.95 monthly, an amount I'm not prepared to pay.
Thank you very much.
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01-14-2014, 08:20 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Future Hosting offers splendid support with managed VPSs, and will even configure the server in a very bespoke way if needed (e.g. Nginx and/or PHP-FPM which are important for high-traffic sites). Performance was pretty good for me too. I think for the price they'll be hard to beat considering the resources you get.
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01-14-2014, 10:21 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I'm currently on the shared plan at Hostgator. However my website is going down at peak times (around 130), getting 500 errors
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01-14-2014, 10:28 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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You should start with a VPS with minimum 2 GB RAM.
May be Nginx will help you to reduce CPU usage.█ YagHost - Fast Reliable Hosting Since 2009
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01-15-2014, 01:22 AM #5Newbie
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Thank you, Ryan, it seems very good, especially for the price. It's on my list.
About the server specs I don't know. I was hoping for some enlightment on what I should be aiming for with the stats I mentioned. Budget would be around $50 and location = nearest to Brazil as possible. US is ok.
Thanks! And what about other specs, do you have any idea on what should I look for?
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01-15-2014, 01:26 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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cPanel -> Very good to manage server
Min 2GB memory -> Good for a cPanel VPS
KVM / XEN is better. But in many cases OpenVZ performs better. But still KVM is recommended.
SSD Disk -> VPS performs much better.
Nginx as reverse proxy with Apache -> Lower CPU / memory usage. Very good for high traffic websites.█ YagHost - Fast Reliable Hosting Since 2009
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01-15-2014, 01:53 AM #7Newbie
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01-15-2014, 02:07 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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01-15-2014, 02:39 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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About the server specs I don't know. I was hoping for some enlightment on what I should be aiming
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01-15-2014, 12:31 PM #10Newbie
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01-15-2014, 01:21 PM #11Web Hosting Guru
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you can try looking at tmzvps.com and go for 2gb ram pack of managed vps. you should do just fine with that. your ram usage should not be more than 1gb coz if it was then HG would have already kicked you out.
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01-15-2014, 01:31 PM #12Poooooonnyyy :*
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Look at knownhost. They run a solid operation and are very well priced
You should have no problem with your budget.
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01-15-2014, 01:38 PM #13
Thanks for the mention Francisco.
Looks like everyone here is pointing you in the right direction but when you do decide where you wish to host at I would perform a full review of your WP settings and plugins as not all plugins are created equal and it very well could be one bad performing plugin causing a lot of the issues.KnownHost Managed Services Specialists
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01-15-2014, 04:41 PM #14Newbie
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01-15-2014, 04:53 PM #15
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For a WP Site I would advise looking at a SSD offering. WP and it's plugins are very mysql intensive which gains great benefits from the extra boost a pure SSD solution can offer.
If you are looking at the non-ssd offerings then yes a VPS-2 should be fine. However I will pre-face it with the fact that no two WP sites are created equal. I have seen sites with 10-20k hits a month destroy a VPS because of plugins or bad MySQL queries. No two sites are created equal.KnownHost Managed Services Specialists
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01-15-2014, 06:36 PM #16Newbie
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01-15-2014, 06:37 PM #17KnownHost Managed Services Specialists
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01-15-2014, 09:13 PM #18Junior Guru Wannabe
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Well it looks like you found your new host. Would be nice to have a review of how the whole transferring process went. GL!
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01-15-2014, 10:45 PM #19Newbie
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01-16-2014, 01:03 PM #20Disabled
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Try knownhost, they are really cheap.
You should have no problem with your budget.
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01-16-2014, 01:13 PM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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You won't have any issues if you go with a reputable managed vps provider. Make sure it's PURE SSD. Wordpress can be I/O intensive.
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01-16-2014, 01:20 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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01-19-2014, 01:19 PM #23Newbie
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SSD or non-SSD
Are the performance gains that large with SSD? I expect lot of the stuff in the memory anyway...
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01-19-2014, 01:36 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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I haven't observed any significant improvements with WordPress and other common PHP applications, mainly because as you say a lot of things are cached nowadays so it's very rarely that the 'first load' slowdown occurs. Without dismissing the merits of SSDs, I do think a lot of unnecessary emphasis is being put on them right now to push sales. It's the equivalent of the words 'cloud' and 'cluster' 3–5 years ago.
On the code level, things like PHP-APC and Memcached mean that something like WordPress doesn't actually hit the disk that often. And on the static file level, Linux will automatically cache files in RAM until it's needed for other things. That's what the buffers part of the 'free' command shows, and why it's good to leave spare memory.
Where SSDs are most beneficial is when a lot of writing to the hard drive is occurring, so long as the SSDs are actually optimised for write performance. When it comes to reading, most requests are cached so it's really not so important — not unless the files being read change constantly. SSDs are a tool that should be employed specifically in areas where an application is going to make use of it. They're not the general 'tune up' improvement many hosts imply them to be, and a lot of people are going out of their way to spend money on them for no reason.
Of course, the greater IO potential of SSDs does mean that more clients can thrash the hard drive before slowdown occurs. That can be good for customers, but then the same logic applies as with CPUs: even though the CPUs of today are infinitely more powerful than the ones of even five years ago, it just results in most hosting companies piling more accounts onto each servers — so each individual customer feels little benefit.Last edited by Ryan Williams; 01-19-2014 at 01:42 PM.
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01-20-2014, 08:46 PM #25Newbie
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So I've decided to go with KnownHost as I said.
After they confirmed my payment, the migration was done very promptly. The only thing is that they took a while to confirm it (i paid by PayPal), but I can't complain.
I went with the SSD VPS and am seeing that my wordpress site is MUCH more fast. I don't know if cache is working better now than it was on HostGator, but it seems so, since the site is loading in 1 sec (google javascripts like adsense takes longer). But I guess this was expected since I was in a HostGator shared hosting before.
I already needed support 3 times, 2 about the migration and 1 about some strange 404s on my site. All of them were answered very quickly even the ones made on 4 in the morning.
So yes, I'm VERY pleased with KnownHosting and after a few days, I already would recommend it.
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