Recommendation?

soundspretty · February 12th, 2007, 12:36 AM

I'm looking to go dedicated but I honestly do not know what CPU is ideal for what I'm looking for and was wondering if someone could help me out

So here are some important (I think) facts:

My site relies heavily on MySQL and PHP.
It's a community site with a little over 8k members.
Also hosts 4 smaller scripts based on MySQL as well.
Average of 35000 hits per day.
Usually 20-100 visitors online at any given time.
Uses about 700MB bandwidth per day.
100+ emails sent out each day by server.

pulpfriction · February 20th, 2007, 5:55 AM

Hi, we had exactly the same problem, not really knwoing what was best for us. We run 110 small-medium sized sites, sending approx 3000-4000 emails per day, running 20 or so MySQL databases. One site has heavy traffic and is 100% data driven. We settled on P4 3G CPU, 1GIG RAM, and just a few days in we are more than impressed with the performance, especially our mailouts. We can upgrade to 2GIG RAM if required, but things are looking good so far compared to the shared hosting environment. Hope this helps.

February 12th, 2007, 12:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
soundspretty Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Feb 2007 2 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Recommendation? I'm looking to go dedicated but I honestly do not know what CPU is ideal for what I'm looking for and was wondering if someone could help me out So here are some important (I think) facts: My site relies heavily on MySQL and PHP. It's a community site with a little over 8k members. Also hosts 4 smaller scripts based on MySQL as well. Average of 35000 hits per day. Usually 20-100 visitors online at any given time. Uses about 700MB bandwidth per day. 100+ emails sent out each day by server.

February 20th, 2007, 5:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
pulpfriction Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Jan 2005 110 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 0 times	Server specs Hi, we had exactly the same problem, not really knwoing what was best for us. We run 110 small-medium sized sites, sending approx 3000-4000 emails per day, running 20 or so MySQL databases. One site has heavy traffic and is 100% data driven. We settled on P4 3G CPU, 1GIG RAM, and just a few days in we are more than impressed with the performance, especially our mailouts. We can upgrade to 2GIG RAM if required, but things are looking good so far compared to the shared hosting environment. Hope this helps. __________________ If everything was idiot proof, they would build a better idiot www.itcommunications.com.au

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