Need Advice | One of my clients expecting BIG spike in traffic...

**Turnip** · April 12th, 2008, 12:16 PM

Hey guys/gals -

I host several small businesses on my dedi, and I never have any real bandwidth concerns.

That said, one of the small businesses whose site I built - and is on my server - is going to be featured on Inside Edition in two weeks. Her recent exposure in a national newsletter netted a large spike, so I'm expecting the Inside Edition thing to bring a potentially HUGE spike.

I'm nervous that I'm going to get the equivalent of being "dugg" or "slashdotted," and that the server will just stop answering. What could/should I do in anticipation of this spike? I don't mind if her site becomes unavailable after some ungodly number of serves, but I'm not keen on having the rest of my clients lose activity because the server's toast...

Help!

Thanks, amigos.

r/T

**DewKnight** · April 12th, 2008, 12:29 PM

What kind of website is it? If you've got a bunch of php / etc going on it is more likely to cause problems on the server than it's just plain html pages. do you run any specific software on the website (like wordpress, joomla, etc).

**Turnip** · April 12th, 2008, 2:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DewKnight

What kind of website is it? If you've got a bunch of php / etc going on it is more likely to cause problems on the server than it's just plain html pages. do you run any specific software on the website (like wordpress, joomla, etc).

Yep, it's a Drupal site.

H · April 12th, 2008, 3:24 PM

Turn on caching. Traffic from Digg is definitely a burst, but unless it hits the front-page, it's nothing to worry about.

**Turnip** · April 12th, 2008, 6:00 PM

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Originally Posted by H

Turn on caching. Traffic from Digg is definitely a burst, but unless it hits the front-page, it's nothing to worry about.

Right. You're talking about in Drupal, right?

I dunno if you made it through my whole post or not, but I'm not worried about Digg - or the front page. I'm worried about Inside Edition (network television) pasting her domain all over the tv; I have absolutely no idea how many pageviews it might drive, but I'm guessing it could be comparable to being Dugg.

*shrug*

Anything else I should do? Talk to Surpass? Bump bandwidth, just in case?

mgk · April 12th, 2008, 6:59 PM

I seem to remember the story of someone who hosted his site on a very basic machine and got slashdotted. moving email elsewhere was one of the things he did. Static content another.

**removed** · April 12th, 2008, 9:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Turnip

Bump bandwidth, just in case?

Your current server is a 1.7GHz Celeron with 1GB RAM... this is going to be the biggest problem. Truthfully, with this hardware the site is highly unlikely to be able to handle a large amount of traffic.

**Bigjohn** · April 12th, 2008, 11:39 PM

Get surpass to slap some ram in that bad dude... or upgrade the server post haste.

**removed** · April 13th, 2008, 3:17 AM

Yeah, a Core 2 Duo CPU and 2GB RAM is the bare minimum I would go for... maybe even quad core and 4GB if your budget allows for it.

April 12th, 2008, 12:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Turnip Surpass Fan Seasoned Poster Joined in Sep 2004 31 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 3 times	Need Advice \| One of my clients expecting BIG spike in traffic... Hey guys/gals - I host several small businesses on my dedi, and I never have any real bandwidth concerns. That said, one of the small businesses whose site I built - and is on my server - is going to be featured on Inside Edition in two weeks. Her recent exposure in a national newsletter netted a large spike, so I'm expecting the Inside Edition thing to bring a potentially HUGE spike. I'm nervous that I'm going to get the equivalent of being "dugg" or "slashdotted," and that the server will just stop answering. What could/should I do in anticipation of this spike? I don't mind if her site becomes unavailable after some ungodly number of serves, but I'm not keen on having the rest of my clients lose activity because the server's toast... Help! Thanks, amigos. r/T __________________ Tim "Turnip" Glinatsis Dedicated Server of Turnips turnipnetwork.com

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H after g, before i Super #1 Joined in Jul 2004 Hosted on Gojira 7,735 posts Gave thanks: 40 Thanked 117 times	Turn on caching. Traffic from Digg is definitely a burst, but unless it hits the front-page, it's nothing to worry about.

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