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09-03-2006, 04:45 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Liquid Web, SoftLayer, or Server Wizards?
Which one would you go with for a messageboard that has a high traffic amount per month? (On avg: 7 Million hits and 55,000 unique visits).
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09-03-2006, 04:55 PM #2Predatory Poster
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I would go with softlayer but I have a bias towards them. ( I actually use the private VLAN)
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09-03-2006, 09:50 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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SoftLayer is unmanaged, whereas the other 2 are managed. Which do you need?
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09-03-2006, 10:06 PM #4Eternal Member
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Contact Steven at Rack911. He can put together a cluster or single server and manage it for you. It sounds like this is what you need. Don't go for stuff like cPanel, etc. as that just adds bloat.
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09-03-2006, 11:04 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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A managed server would really be the way for me to go, as I really don't know that much at all. Cost might be prohibitive for a managed server, but I'd be willing to spend the extra cost to make sure what happened to me this weekend doesn't happen again.
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09-03-2006, 11:49 PM #6Predatory Poster
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What happened to you this weekend?
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09-04-2006, 12:01 AM #7Engineer
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Softlayer+third party management is a good choice IMO.
They have nice deals, I just recently moved a vBulletin which always has 1,000+ users online at a time from liquidweb->softlayer and well it was well worth it.
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09-04-2006, 12:02 AM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by pixelized
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09-04-2006, 09:45 AM #9Retired Moderator
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Originally Posted by Scott.Mc
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09-04-2006, 09:48 AM #10Eternal Member
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Originally Posted by ApoloMediaLayer, LLC - www.medialayer.com Learn how we can make your website load faster, translating to better conversion rates for your business!
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09-04-2006, 11:36 AM #11Engineer
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Not sure on the old specs the new ones though are,
2x's
Motherboard SuperMicro X7DBR-3 Intel Xeon DualCore DualProc Sata/Sas [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Woodcrest 5130-DualCore [2GHz]
Processor Intel Xeon-Woodcrest 5130-DualCore [2GHz]
RAM slot 1 Generic 2GB DDR2 [2GB]
RAM slot 2 Generic 2GB DDR2 [2GB]
RAM slot 3 Empty
RAM slot 4 Empty
RAM slot 5 Empty
RAM slot 6 Empty
RAM slot 7 Empty
RAM slot 8 Empty
Drive Controller Adaptec 4800SAS SA-SCSI RAID-1 Controller
Hard Drive 1 Fujitsu MAX3073 SAS 3073 [73GB]
Hard Drive 2 Fujitsu MAX3073 SAS 3073 [73GB]
Just using apache 2 , php 4.4.4 and mysql 4
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09-04-2006, 12:11 PM #12Problem Solver
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We recently moved a 400 user board to softlayer from the planet and its been doing great, the forum users had reported an increase in performence considering it was close to the same exact hardware. Personally I think softlayer would be the place to go.
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09-04-2006, 12:13 PM #13Engineer
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Originally Posted by Steven
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09-04-2006, 12:22 PM #14Eternal Member
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Originally Posted by StevenMediaLayer, LLC - www.medialayer.com Learn how we can make your website load faster, translating to better conversion rates for your business!
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