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[edunetter]

Hi,

Being new to VPS I have no idea about the performance issues related with VPS though it appears that there is great flexibility in using VPS. By reading the posts in this forum, VPS appears to be great for development use. However, it is very important for me to know the performance of VPS, both in the context of static site and dynamic site.

Is there going to be a performance related problem in static site having 15 GB traffic per month? My feeling is that there should not be any but I am not an expert and need the opinion of this forum.

Is there going to be a performance related problem in dynamic site? Consider a forum like vbulletin. How many people can connect to it at the same time? Let us say that the forum consumes 5 GB traffic monthly.

[Cruise]

Ive got a WHM/Cpanel VPS with 128 mb RAM and host about 20 domains with it..
Some of them are quite well visited.. ie. ive got a dynamic site with 2000 uniques a month and a dynamic site with 6000 uniques a month on it.. and it runs fine.

Server Load 0.00 (2 cpus)
Memory Used 57.3 %
Swap Used 20.35 %

[edunetter]

I read some posts in this forum saying that VPS is sort of caged as RAM is very limited and is not burstable in real sense making VPS performance worse than $10 pm shared hosting in some cases.

On the other hand I was advised by many to use VPS as an upgrade to $10 hosting before my site becomes busy enough for dedicated hosting.

There seems to be a contradiction there!

[leeware]

The contradiction comes from the fact that just like in shared hosting you can over load / oversell a VPS node if using technology that allows this. In those cases, it is possible to not get the performance gains you were hoping for when switching to a VPS provider.

[ntfu2]

Ive got a PowerVPS vps package.

Consumed 50GB of datatransfer in a little over 2 weeks on a vBulletin forum with roughly 15+ people online at a time.

Never had a lag, slow down, site shut down or any issues with Resources. Hope that can answer your question. your description shouldnt provide any issues on a good VPS provider

[edunetter]

From the above two posts it appears that with a good and fair VPS hosting there should not be any performance issues.

Do spry & slhost fall into this category?

[ewebzone]

ntfu2: Are you on the 256mb RAM plan? Or something else?

[SiliconWolf]

Originally Posted by edunetter

Is there going to be a performance related problem in static site having 15 GB traffic per month? My feeling is that there should not be any but I am not an expert and need the opinion of this forum.

Is there going to be a performance related problem in dynamic site? Consider a forum like vbulletin. How many people can connect to it at the same time? Let us say that the forum consumes 5 GB traffic monthly.

I have about that much traffic running through a 256 MB VPS (from hosteasier) and I haven't had any problems. In fact, I think there's probably room for tons more.

In my case, I just bought a second VPS (from a2b2) because I'm a bit nervous about having more than 30 separate sites on one machine. That's a lot of people who would complain at once if something happened (I know this from an experience I had with a previous host).

[gplhost]

Originally Posted by edunetter

Is there going to be a performance related problem in dynamic site? Consider a forum like vbulletin. How many people can connect to it at the same time? Let us say that the forum consumes 5 GB traffic monthly.

For 5GB a month, there should be no trouble, that's a small site. What you have to take care is if your host monitors the CPU of all the VM of each servers. If they don't, IMHO you should find another one, because you definitively need a host that is capable to tell what VPS is taking too mutch CPU.

Also, for memory, I don't know about cPanel, but for what concerns OUR control panel, 192 MB of memory is enough to have all fit in the memory. cPanel should take more as there's a running daemon.

Regards,

Thomas