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pjbrunet
MemberI have 10 blogs and several websites hosted at Media Temple, which I think uses a hacked Plesk. Probably they use Apache, which I'm reading can be slow compared to NginX. I'm ready to move beyond Plesk and Cpanel and get more serious about speed, growth, flexibility, etc. I'm thinking it can't be that hard to configure this stuff myself, which is how I found your site.
I'm starting to realize how important speed is for UX, CPM, etc. So I'm really interested in NginX, assuming it's that much faster.
I had no idea there were so many affordable VPS options, I just wasn't paying attention. I suppose I got caught up in the "social networking" craze like everyone else.
A few years ago I was kicked off a Site5 shared account for "hogging the server" and moved to Media Temple. I average around 10,000 impressions/day. I personally don't think that is much traffic for a shared account, but maybe overselling is the norm now, or WordPress is too bloated? Lots of variables to consider. Lately I have looked for ways to make WordPress faster. I see VPS as an opportunity for me to start over from scratch. Maybe take the data that I have from WordPress and create tight code that only does exactly what I need, as fast as possible. Then once I know what I'm doing I can move to VPS exclusively, but I think that will take me a while.
Speed. It depends on your scripts, the size of your database, etc. I think I can't get past this 10,000/day threshold for several years now because my site gets too slow in the 15,000/day range. I need to do what Starbucks does, open a new store (VPS) across the street, more locations, etc.
Anyway, back to Site5, at the time they were about to roll out a VPS option but a) it wasn't ready and b) it was going to cost too much and c) MT had resource metrics for me to find slow queries, slow pages, slow scripts and d) they had the Grid Container which sounded revolutionary to me at the time.
Now I think Media Temple is really good at marketing, the support is a little slow but very good. But in terms of bang for your buck, I'm not so sure I'm getting the best deal, once you get into bigger Grid Containers the price jumps significantly. And I feel like I'm locked in. To a degree I think it's like hosting with training wheels on, which is fine if you don't have time to tinker around in Linux.
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cheers PJ .. so, are you asking about load balancing? :P
sure, prices are incredibly competitive now.
MT is clearly huge, with a brilliant marketing strategy .. but I can't diss 'em cos I've not experienced them (er, at their prices!)
one thing about Linode that I like, but it's the same with Slicehost and I think those two are about the best in the market for reliability (but not the cheapest anymore and I want to explore that when have time, so months from now!) is the scalability .. you can thrown on extra RAM or whatever to an existing plan, else strap on new slices to your plan, and easily done)
Apache tends to be very resource hungry compared to Nginx, which is why we use Nginx here. I intend to write up a guide on how to custom build Nginx with bespoke modules .. it's written actually, so you may find that useful ..
.. grab a feed for updates on that.
Figure I'll bounce this to the hosting section. Nice to see you about, Sir.
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pjbrunet
MemberI know nothing about load balancing. Planning to cover that in your guide? Actually, I haven't purchased your guide yet. I may do that later tonight. I need to sign up for Linode first.
I definitely won't go with Slicehost. I recently read a review where their performance numbers were not good compared to other VPS. Also I was there in Austin (two years ago?) when Rackspace announced they acquired Slicehost for an undisclosed sum--I wasn't convinced they knew what they were talking about. Obviously they are successful but I don't know why, I suspect because Texas is a wealthy state with many high-tech companies, cheap labor, cheap energy, good geography?
No doubt you need a host that's somewhat financially solid, not just technically solid, because I have seen deals go bad and sometimes the server disappears into thin air and you might never get the data back. A good reason to keep backups and never use your host as a registrar.
By the way, is this BBPress?
Posted 2 years ago # -
hey PJ .. there are so many things to cover .. take a look at the FAQ to get an idea of the priority list.
then again .. make a request and i'll add it to the list.
(ultimately, i'll have to look at this topic on a site like this)
yes, this is deep integrated bbpress, that is still rather in beta .. have got lots to do to get it working right yet.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Mo Ses
MemberG'Day PJ,
Thought I'd add a few comments from my limited experience.
Wordpress does a very good job of running what it does with little overhead, especially when you're running the WP supercache.
The main reason the VPS crews rave about nginx is it's performance with a low memory footprint. With Linode you get 360MB RAM, then fire up Apache2 and 200+MB is gone! Apache on big servers when tuned by someone in the know can perform extremely well, but when running a VPS memory is the no 1 constriction.
To give you a very rough idea of speed / usage, I'm running http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com on a Linode360 plan using the guv's setup guides, plus a lot of random googling. Google Analytics tells me I get a max of 4000 pageviews to the blog and 12000 pageviews to the forum per day. I'm averaging 16% CPU usage and transferring over 2GB per day.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Anonymous
UnregisteredHello all,
I'm very happy to be here as I'm embarking on a very ambitious project involving the setting up of my first VPS. I know just enough to be dangerous and am getting more-so every day. There are many questions I have and many issues I've been through already. The learning curve is steep but a steady organized ascent is slowly working for me. Therefore, you'll probably be seeing me around and if I can help anyone by my humble learnings then I'd be happy to assist, as I'll be relying on this forum too. Sleep well. G.
Posted 2 years ago # -
cracking G .. good to have you about, Sir.
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