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[Nonchalant]

Not THE WHO! Who to VPS my sites.

Looking for recommendation. I have hosted my sites since 2002 from Dedicated Servers to Shared to VPS's. My main 2 sites for traffic are

www.chinesedemocracy.com/forum - Forum for Guns N' Roses

www.gunsnroses.us/tracker - Is a small torrent site for non-offcial media - live shows with permission to use media. I have 1500 regisered members.

In recent years I have been fine on a VPS 512 to 1 gig memory. 30g space is fine. and things been very fast with my previous host. but they didn't have a raid solution or a backup solution included with the price & couldn't afford to pay extra.

So last month I went to a host that I have been eying up for awhile on here. but they are telling me to upgrade already to their top vps plan. and I have had downtime for hours already. They say I get too many httpd/apache connections. They shut me down for most of the day without me knowing. I filed a ticket after many hours and then they told me they shut it down for apache connections.


This is down time for me with traffic since the band is on break so I feel I shouldn't have any problems.

Is is possible that my current host to have too many vps clients on the server? It never seemed very fast to me and I have complained. Installed APC and tried things but no help. Forum creation of pages jumps from .4 to 40.00 to even 200.00 once in awhile. Seems inconsistant. VZ seems fine most of the time with memory 30% to 40% .. with a couple spikes close to 50% in a day. cpu always fine.

So I guess my main question is

1. Could a host change ... change all this? meaning maybe the server I am on is oversold. or is this really my fault... I really don't think I have so much traffic

2. Recommendations for a vps host with fast response to simple machines forum software. yea I want it to be fast and always online.

You can check the links I posted .. traffic is pretty much always the same give or take 20 users. Keep in mind the forum statistics are from the last 80 minutes.

edit:

Current host is 512 memory cpanel with burst to 1 gig memory.

edit again:

Been looking at wiredtree option, futurehost, and knownhost because of good reviews. but don't know how fast they will perform fo FANS (endusers) from all over Europe and USA.

edit again: think its fair to say I am judging speed from Athens Greece currently.

[IGXHost]

If your sites really don't have that much traffic or usage then it really may just be your host node being overloaded or oversold. Have you perhaps asked them to transfer you to any other available nodes to see if there's any difference in performance?

[Nonchalant]

Originally Posted by igxhost

If your sites really don't have that much traffic or usage then it really may just be your host node being overloaded or oversold. Have you perhaps asked them to transfer you to any other available nodes to see if there's any difference in performance?

I havent' got that far yet. I am in the decision process. but I did ask if it was a server issue or my resources and they said

"The load increasing because of the resource shortage in the server that's why the server is unable to occupy the httpd connection." and they suggested a bigger plan.

If you can, click on the forum link and let me know if that should be able to run smoothly. I think it would be fine for shared hosting.

[bentink]

Originally Posted by Nonchalant

I havent' got that far yet. I am in the decision process. but I did ask if it was a server issue or my resources and they said

"The load increasing because of the resource shortage in the server that's why the server is unable to occupy the httpd connection." and they suggested a bigger plan.

If you can, click on the forum link and let me know if that should be able to run smoothly. I think it would be fine for shared hosting.

httpd connection on a VPS is independent of other instances and should depend mainly only on the RAM of your VPS.

[Nonchalant]

I C ... so an oversold server can't really contribute to me using too much memory or load?

can you guys view my sites?

anyway these were the messages from the host

I have restarted the server now. It was making very huge load issues ( lots of apache connections ).It was causing load threatening to the main server and we had stopped the server few time before.

Due to more no of apache connections the server load was in the range of 120 -130 some time . This is the reason we have limitted/blocked the traffic .

I don't know what 120 - 130 means

As of now it is fine. Load is fine , but a couple of hours before load was nearing to 150 due to large no of httpd connections , it was not a kind of DDOS , seems genuine traffic was there.Regarding spam issue , it is not able to block 100% . But you may use filter settings
available via cpanel to do this. Also we can enable other e-mail authentication modules too.

The load increasing because of the resource shortage in the server that's why the server is unable to occupy the httpd connection.
I suggest to you upgrade your xxxx, to avoid such situation in the future.

so anyway like I said ... it never seemed really so fast to me browsing the forum like I have had in the past. so if you guys get view my links/sites and make a judgement? cause I really don't think I have so much traffic for my vps.

please advise

[bentink]

120-130 will need a large VPS or a dedicated server. Small VPS cant handle that generally.

[XTremo]

Check out the FutureHosting deal in Offers! I'm on a Titanium in London.....see what the speed is like for you in Greece.
www.cavehousesgranada.com

[FastServ]

If you need best speed to both US and EU simultaneously you should get service from US east coast (northeast like Ashburn, New York, ect).

[Nonchalant]

Originally Posted by XTremo

Check out the FutureHosting deal in Offers! I'm on a Titanium in London.....see what the speed is like for you in Greece.
www.cavehousesgranada.com

your site is super fast for me while surfing. and ping is 87ms from my machine. just ping was pretty impresive also.

I'd like to see forums hosted on FH.

I worry about FH though because I don't agree with upping prices with current customers. I don't want to join and then get a notice that they are upping the cost 3 bucks a month. Question for you though, if say I have a script problem with my forum or something with mysql is holding up the site, would their support help me and fix it? Not saying its common for me but it has happenned.

[XTremo]

Originally Posted by Nonchalant

your site is super fast for me while surfing. and ping is 87ms from my machine. just ping was pretty impresive also.

I'd like to see forums hosted on FH.

I worry about FH though because I don't agree with upping prices with current customers. I don't want to join and then get a notice that they are upping the cost 3 bucks a month. Question for you though, if say I have a script problem with my forum or something with mysql is holding up the site, would their support help me and fix it? Not saying its common for me but it has happenned.

A forum? Here you go:
This is one with a 300MB database and full of graphics: MaximumBikes

As for the price increase.....it's all relative really. Do you get value for money is the key issue! And yes you do!

As for helping you with scripts I couldn't say! All I know so far is their support and response is absolutely incredible!

[Nonchalant]

Originally Posted by XTremo

A forum? Here you go:
This is one with a 300MB database and full of graphics: MaximumBikes

As for the price increase.....it's all relative really. Do you get value for money is the key issue! And yes you do!

As for helping you with scripts I couldn't say! All I know so far is their support and response is absolutely incredible!

hard to tell for me on that IPboard. I have worked with SMF and phpbb mostly. 300mb seems bigs for that forum my db is 320 ish. and have over 20,000 more members and 600,000 more posts.

[Nnyan]

Take a look at Servint they have an east coast location and are excellent.

[XTremo]

Originally Posted by Nonchalant

hard to tell for me on that IPboard. I have worked with SMF and phpbb mostly. 300mb seems bigs for that forum my db is 320 ish. and have over 20,000 more members and 600,000 more posts.

Try a phpBB then: FTO Club

[Abomination]

Originally Posted by Nonchalant

can you guys view my sites?

Yes, and it loaded quite quickly. Best looking smf forum I've seen!

[Nonchalant]

Originally Posted by XTremo

Try a phpBB then: FTO Club

now this is the performance I expect!! Click Click fast. I can't do this with my forum and smf is just as good as phpbb. The trafic on that site looks up to par with mine too. You know what plan they are on?

u sure this is FH?