Host Unlimited Websites?

**piper** · 03-11-2006, 02:37 PM

I'm on the Freedom plan. I know it says I can host unlimited domains, but let's be real now. What can I comfortably host on my plan? My sites are PHP/MySQL driven. 2 busy sites? 1 busy site?

15,000 MB Disk Space
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256 MB Guaranteed Ram
200 units Guaranteed CPU
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**Gwaihir** · 03-11-2006, 05:04 PM

That depends on SO many factors..

What do you consider busy?

What sorts of content are we speaking? With text and HTML it is virtually impossible to fill 15GB in websites. Thrown in an avid group of hobby photographers exchanging their work in full quality and you will see it fill up. Do the same with a group of folks that post home video's and you might come screaming back to Jag for more space.

What sorts of software are we speaking? Will you be actively optimizing it once things start to slow down? Or will you be stuck with whatever your clients throw at it?

**Awalsh** · 03-11-2006, 05:22 PM

i host 10 blogs, with some forums which arent overly active on my freedom vps and CPU is never high. But im sure you can get much much more out of it, but as Gwaihir says there are lots of things to take into account. No one can just say you can host X number of sites on this vps. Personally id just monitor the situation and if you regularly get QoS problems in Virtuozzo you know that youve over stepped the line

**piper** · 03-11-2006, 06:10 PM

Right now I have a site that eats through 4-5 gigs a day with ~3000 unique visitors daily. It's PHP/MySQL driven.

I have another site that mainly focused around a semi-busy forum. Less than 100 active users daily. The forum is phpBB.

My VPS cannot handle this. I was trying to develop more sites, but my VPS can barely handle my two biggest sites. I have some smaller ones but they get 0 to very little traffic. Support has told me I'll be moving to a new hardware node once it's ready as there seems to be a problem with the one I am on.

I just wanted to know what I could comfortably fit onto my VPS once it works properly.

i host 10 blogs, with some forums

Wow, that's a lot.

**tank** · 03-11-2006, 10:10 PM

The biggest killer you gonna see is that forum. With that much database activity your going to want more than the 256MB of RAM. If I understand your explanation of your forum correctly, you mean that you have a little less than 100 logged in users on the forum at one time? If so, you're going to need some more CPU and RAM than the freedom offers. On a p4 1.8ghz 1Gig Ram dedicated box we run a site that sees around 40,000 page views and stays around 80-100 logged in users all day and I would guestimate we are at around 50% capacity.

There's just so many varibles to look at.

**piper** · 03-11-2006, 10:27 PM

I don't mean I have 100 users on at the same time on my forums. I have on average 0 - 10 users max at the same time on my forums. I have 100/day.

Now on my other site I have on average ~60 online at the same time and it spikes over 100 sometimes.

**Gwaihir** · 03-13-2006, 10:29 AM

If by "develop" you mean the technical aspects (rather than develop them as a brand, through marketing or something), I take it you could also look into and adapt the code of that main site you refer to as "PHP/MySQL"? Then I would suggest you try to optimze that.

If no specific optimization has been done before, is my expectation that you should easily be able to bring it's load down by over 50%. Look at the bottle necks your VPS experiences: is it CPU? Memory? I/O? Look in your logs what main pages of your site a requested the most. Try to optimize them according to your VPS's limits.

**Awalsh** · 03-14-2006, 12:54 AM

As Gwaihir said, you should try to optimize certain aspects of your site. For example i have a page that is daily updated so instead of grabbing the data from the page at every request i run a php script every night to create a .html file with the output of the database for the next day.

That way i reduce Mysql load and general server load, on my VPS its hardly noticeable as i dont put much demand on it but it could help. Maybe look into caching etc if you use php?

**piper** · 03-14-2006, 08:59 PM

I optimized until there was nothing left to optimize. It was driving me crazy because my VPS was just so slooow. Today I just got moved to a new hardware node and my performance issues are finally gone. Whew!

**tank** · 03-14-2006, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by piper

I optimized until there was nothing left to optimize. It was driving me crazy because my VPS was just so slooow. Today I just got moved to a new hardware node and my performance issues are finally gone. Whew!

what hardware resources do you have now?

**piper** · 03-14-2006, 10:08 PM

I'm still on the same plan.

**Awalsh** · 03-15-2006, 12:36 AM

do you run a control panel by the way?

**piper** · 03-15-2006, 11:16 AM

CPanel/WHM

**Gwaihir** · 03-15-2006, 03:32 PM

Ah; so it seems it was a problem with the VPS itself and nothing under your control at all? Then I guess you can take some sighs of relief now and slowly get used to non-stressed breathing again?

**tank** · 03-15-2006, 05:20 PM

So what exactly does that mean.. a different hardware node?

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