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[Fatty]

Hi, looking for some advice.

We run a Lord of the Rings/Tolkien site. Quite busy, in top 3 of them I guess. Get steady traffic and occational big spikes. when we get hold of an exclusive trailer or something. Also as new movie approaches traffic will soar to about 3* present level.

Were on Rackshack with 2 dedicated servers. Currently with another host. Now they are not bad and do try but a too much downtime.

I was thinking of leaving our downloads and big image galleries on thei server and putting the main site on a higher cost, but more relaible service. Normally we use between 300 to 600 gb a month.

Now we could not afford that with an expensive host, but I figured the main site probably does not use that much bandwidth in itself.

Do you think this is a good idea?

Any recommendations welcome.

Thanks

James

PS A not too big setup fee would be handy too as we have forkedout about $1000 in last 2 months with all our moving about.

[Chachi]

post this request on the web hosting request forums (third forum in the advertising block). I'm sure you'll get some decent offers there.

[clockwork]

I think it's a good idea.

Curiously, you mention downtime. Is it network-specific or server-specific?

If it's server specific, you're (or the company) doing something wrong.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems as though you're just serving data for this LOTR site.

I'm thinking you're running Redhat with a control panel.

First thing: Lose Redhat, lose the control panel.

If you require linux, go with Slackware or something that can be stripped down.

If not, go FreeBSD. You will seriously notice a difference in performance and uptime.



If you're looking for offers, you will need to post to the Request forum.

[clockwork]

Also.. is it the webtie just pushing 300-600gb?!

Or are you including the media downloads in that figure?

A single server FreeBSD server should be able to push 300-600gb and serve a popular website without a hitch... so something is wrong with your current setup

[batcavenet]

yes freebsd is a great idea also recompile the webserver to make it small and very low memory usage. Also turn off all the modules you don't need - and turn off the dns lookups on the hits (makes a HUGE difference). Also optimize all images - and pages - you should be able to reduce the load tremendously.

JDT

[batcavenet]

Oh yah- almost forgot- also turn off access logs

JDT

[Fatty]

Hi well thanks for fast replies!

Its network downtime not the server. The problem is we cannto afford to move the whole site to a more realiable host. The 300-600, somtimes more and growing, is mostly from file downloads and large images.

We have a lot of trailers and tv clips etc. I thought to leave them on existing server and maybe move the main site with forum to another dedicated or would a virtual serve for the main site do you think.

The site does run without a hitch most of the time, as I say its the network not the server, apologies if I was vague. We are on redhat with plesk at the moment.

Really I guess we want to get stability on the main site and if the downloads etc go down now and agian that fine.

Just wondering if doing this is practicle.

thanks

Oh and I will repost it in a sec, sorry for posting in wrong forum, but was looking for opinion rather than tons of offers ;-)

[Walter]

This strategy should be fine, yes.
If the traffic of your main site is low maybe you could even do with a shared account...