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General question on servers

  • 31-01-2009 9:49pm
    #1
    Gamesnash.ie: Pat
    Company Representative Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭


    Evening all !

    This is a rough question which probably has an element of "how long is a piece of string" about it but here goes anyway .....

    Coming at this from a non techie / laymans point of view and the question is - how many pages can a server serve at any one time before it begins to slow down and needs the backup of a second server to share the load.

    I know there are many factors to that answer in particular the content of the site it is serving but let's say it was our own site http://www.gamesnash.com - which means pages querying database and about 20-30 small images , no sound or video files etc.

    We're planning for the future and do expect an enormous traffic increase in the next year. Just trying to gauge how much work one dedicated server can handle.


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  • #2
    preilly79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 627 ✭✭✭preilly79


    In many cases the actual bandwidth available to your server will be the limiting factor.

    I see that you're running IIS6.0 on a Blacknight host. Is that a dedicated or shared server? If it's your own co-located box can you provide the specs?


  • #3
    Gamesnash.ie: Pat
    Company Representative Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Gamesnash.ie: Pat


    Thanks for the response !

    To be honest with you all I personally know about the tech end of the server is that is used to be on a shared server but as traffic increased on the site it started to crawl so our web designers advised us to move onto a VPS server hosted at Blacknight.

    We are projecting 100,000 - 120,000 page views a day by the end of this year which we assume will mean the need for a dedicated server if not more than 1. As a rough rule of thumb can one dedicated server handle that amount of traffic ?


  • #4
    Cryos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Cryos


    Are you using any SQL Backending ?

    With a VPS server it will depend what type of control panel software you use. Depending on how much dynamic content and how database driven it is, i wouldnt jump direct to the Dedicated server, try a Decent Spec VPS (prefrably with 1gb memory). If you need a dedicated server it will be easy to move over from your VPS.


  • #5
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    A dedicated box should have no problem holding that traffic down with decent spec CPU and RAM. Also check about line speed to the box, you might be able to get a dedicated non shared connection to it.


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