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socialtract
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15th July 2011 17:40
Hi Colleagues -
We have an active site on a higher end VPS (with WP Site Hosting), and we have about 152 blogs on it. Total visits per month is now at 15,000. We have minimized use of plugins -- about eight.
VPS CAPABILITIES: Disk Space 40000 MB | Monthly Traffic 800 GB | Guaranteed RAM 1024 MB
My basic question is this -- has anyone seen or do you know of a good way to gauge when a Multi-site configuration exceeds its server capacity? We are thinking our next move would be to a Dedicated server, or perhaps a cloud server.
We have an active site on a higher end VPS (with WP Site Hosting), and we have about 152 blogs on it. Total visits per month is now at 15,000. We have minimized use of plugins -- about eight.
VPS CAPABILITIES: Disk Space 40000 MB | Monthly Traffic 800 GB | Guaranteed RAM 1024 MB
My basic question is this -- has anyone seen or do you know of a good way to gauge when a Multi-site configuration exceeds its server capacity? We are thinking our next move would be to a Dedicated server, or perhaps a cloud server.
Good question! I've reached limits on low cost shared hosting myself, denoted by an email from the host! I'm sure there are other things to consider with VPS though. I'll ask a few knowledgeable folks around here for more thoughts on that.
There are a few ways to decrease server load and traffic size. WP Super Cache is probably the best way to go. If your site is slow, you should consider the multi-database plugin from wpmudev as well.
There are tons of things you can do to try and limit the load on your server. Caching plugins help, as will things like Varnish, Nginx etc
Using a CDN will help too as media files that take up bandwidth and resources to serve up will be hosted elsewhere, switching the load to a much cheaper service like Amazon S3.
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WPMU DEV Fanatic — 15th July 2011 19:49 #
Hi Scott,
Good question! I've reached limits on low cost shared hosting myself, denoted by an email from the host! I'm sure there are other things to consider with VPS though. I'll ask a few knowledgeable folks around here for more thoughts on that.
Cheers,
David
Member — 16th July 2011 06:59 #
There are a few ways to decrease server load and traffic size. WP Super Cache is probably the best way to go. If your site is slow, you should consider the multi-database plugin from wpmudev as well.
Member — 16th July 2011 14:48 #
socialtract I would think at 15000 hits a month you will need a dedicated server.
Wordpress is a resource hog and although VPS is cheaper ,it certainly does not have the control and power you need.
Although cloud server could be an option,I always find the price is more than same config on dedicated server.
I would suggest 8 gigs of ram,linux centros server probably around $250 a month managed.
If beyond your budget look for a better hosting that will give you better than what you have.
Nothing worse than a slow uploading site.
Sales & Support Pro — 26th July 2011 09:09 #
Hiya!
I'm gonna be the one who says "it depends" :)
There are tons of things you can do to try and limit the load on your server. Caching plugins help, as will things like Varnish, Nginx etc
Using a CDN will help too as media files that take up bandwidth and resources to serve up will be hosted elsewhere, switching the load to a much cheaper service like Amazon S3.
There's also some useful pointers here: http://elliottback.com/wp/why-my-wordpress-site-is-so-much-faster-than-yours/
Hope that helps!
Phil
Member — 27th July 2011 00:00 #
Hello All -
Just wanted to follow up and thank each for your help. Much appreciated.
- Scott
Member — 27th July 2011 03:59 #
Scott...another possibility is to use https://www.cloudflare.com/
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