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VPS Hosting Plans for Big Traffic Wordpress sites
Posted by lalatenews • 9/23/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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We crashed our host's server this morning because of record traffic. We jumped to 89 ranking here also. Our spike started last night. After we crashed 200 other sites on the server, we were taken down. So we had to switch quickly to VPS hosting and won't be up til tonight 
If you have VPS hosting for Wordpress, who do you use and do you like them? And who do you know is a host to avoid?
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I used to have two accounts, a mega multimedia account and a reseller pro account. I combined the two accounts (about 50 blogs) to a VPS thinking that would work. That was June 1st. The inefficiencies of the hosting company didn't get this done until June 9th. On the VPS I was okay with the bandwidth and traffic, but was reaching maximum of CPU and System resources (which, btw is 25% versus the shared usually 10% levels) The VPS killed resources to compensate, usually the DNS Bind which is easy to start, if you are aware, but if you are not - then nobody could access my site. I ended up planning to upgrade to Dedicated August 1st. It took the host provider until Aug 12th to make the transfer. In each cases, the nameservers had to be changed which also takes 12-24hrs to kick in. After I initially upgraded to a dedicated server, there was still some high levels of activity that suggested I should upgrade the RAM. I upgraded to 2G from 1G and can still upgrade to 4G later on. If there are future problems, I though I would segregate sites into a 2nd account, or on another server elsewhere to ease up on the system resources.
So - if you have to upgrade a single account, if a megaterabyte account like one at GLOBAT.com won't work for you - i'd recommend bypassing the VPS - just from my experience and go full dedicated. -
I got to agree root server is the only way to go.
Or use 2 site to mirror each one and use javascript to transfer user to other site after x users are on it.Again second site will have to be on another place.Save the pain of VPS they are not worth it,
BTW this sound od as I though wordpress took very little resource compare to Joomla with tons of sql query
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I think that's still true with Wordpress ... In my case, with over 50 blogs and 50 different MySQL databases going on .. it brought the situation much sooner than later (which I'm glad it did). You can see the graph it looks like 30,000/month and the 50 blogs that did me in. www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s22hart-empire-network-all&r=33 And, there are many sites that far exceed that with only 1 or two blogs.
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is your database on same server or host it on another to balance the load?
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what that question for me? or lalatenews? How's your setup pierre?
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