control panel and CPU/RAM resources

[jaguser]

Hi guys,

I have never fully understood this issue. Cpanel requires more RAM than others. But from what I have read, I had an impression that your control panel is always running in the background and uses RAM/CPU resources. But I just came across this posting from another VPS board of another company. The guy in charge stated that:

"The only slight advantage you will have without a control panel is that the VPS will use a little less RAM (since the control panel itself requires some RAM), but unless if you are logged in to the control panel it will not use any CPU."

Hypothetically, say that I have only 1 site using mysql db with 10000 visitors a day on a VPS, what is more important, CPU or RAM? We know what RAM amount Jaguarpc is partitioned for each VPS plan. Does anybody know how CPU resources are allocated?

[the_ancient]

Does anybody know how CPU resources are allocated?

from the VPS page

Equal share Dual Opteron CPU's

So only JAG really knows I guess, for you to find out you would need to know who many VPS's are on the node.

But BOTH ram and cpu resources are bustable.

as far as which is more important? Well I suppose it depends on your configuration.

[rainboy]

Cpanel, will continuously run on the background, also do other services as your DNS, Exim, Spamassisn, clamav and so on (when used of course).

Cpanel does have its own processes as cpaneld, cppop, cpsrvd, cpanellogd, which will stay on the background also cpanel runs its own webserver on the background. So stating that cpanel only uses cpu when someone accesses the tool is incorrect. It might not use as much cpu as it would when someone logs in, but then a connection to a random website on your VPS would cause about the same load.

From experience, i would put memory in front of CPU for webhosting. But as the_ancient stated it is depending on your website and functions it uses. (plain html, php, perl/cgi, mysql and so on... )

Kindest regards,
Patrick

[the_ancient]

From experience, i would put memory in front of CPU for webhosting.

I guess i should have added:

On JPC servers RAM is normally the limiting factor

Considering the amount of CPU power they put in to their servers. However in general CPU could be the limiting factor if for example you just with a basement host running a old P3 800mhz server (and dont laugh, they are out there)

[rainboy]

Still got a old PII running in my basement, with no more as 256ram, but it is faster as a lot of VPS servers i have seen before (guess those where VPS-hardware nodes with the above specs, with running several VPS nodes under it ) . Its all depending what the server needs to process. And if it needs a lot of CPU to do it.