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What is the best hosting plan for a dedicated server?

Posted by DocNicole • 9/19/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: dedicated server

Hey ya'll I am sick to death of Lunar Pages...this is the second time page views from Digg has shut down my site (nearly 20,000 pv's in ten minutes!!!) and last month I had to upgrade to a dedicated server to prevent this from happening. Well is has happened again, and I want to change servers.

I thought I would ask the panel...who do you think is the best?

Thanks,

Doc

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9/19/08

timethief

Check your twitter messages. I sent you a link.
Also you may want to drop a message into crkian's shoutbox or email him.

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9/19/08

DocNicole

Thanks so much TT!

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1. 9/19/08
  
  satijournal
  
  Doc, post what you find out. I use LunarPages, also.
2. 9/19/08
  
  DocNicole
  
  Have you enjoyed lunar pages? I find the site impossible to navigate and am thinking of going back to yahoo because at least everytime I log in I can see my site statistics without having to go through nine hundred different log in links. After upgrading there is no way for me to keep track of my statistics. I have found the customer service at Lunar Pages to be sub-optimal, do not like the navigation of the site, and really don't think it is anything that special. I find it annoying that the phone number is predominantly displayed for those that aren't customers, but then the second you log in...you can't find a phone number ANYWHERE...it is as if they just want you to sign up and once they have your money they don't give a rats ass about keeping you happy. Sorry for the frank admonishment of this host, but I think they are terrible and would not recommend them to my worst enemy. Finally I asked to speak to someone in customer service and they transferred me to an automated voice mail without a live human voice at the end...and I am sure that no one will ever be returning my call. I am just going to cancel my account at this point.
  
  The problem turns out that the nameservers were dropped somehow by godaddy and reverted to the original ones on the shared server....so I have been paying buku money for the past few months to have this dedicated server that I have not even been on! LP is just blaming it all on godaddy...but I don't understand why they would have allowed the shared server to still be in effect when I am clearly paying for a dedicated server.
  
  I don't think I have ever been so frustrated by a company and it is a good thing my name is not Darren Rowse...or I would be turning this in to a blog article.
9/19/08

PetLvr

There's always going to be a compromise based on service needed, price, etc. I've never had 20,000 PV in 10 minutes (nor any traffic or bandwidth issues) but because I have about 60 sites on one server the CPU resources are the key factor in affecting my growth. I recently upgraded last week www.hart-empire-network.com/2008/09/dedicated-server-upgrade-is-complete/ .. to 8GIG RAM.. because it's cheaper than what I should be doing ..having two separate dedicated servers .. one for the traffic and files and the other for the MySQL databases.

I use Singlehop ..

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1. 9/19/08
  
  DocNicole
  
  Whoah Petlvr I wish I was smart enough to understand all that! Thanks for your comment though!! Very helpful I'm sure for those that understand tech speak!
2. 9/19/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  It basically means that I've ugraded far beyond my needs, based on price. Eventually, I will have 2 servers and I won't need such a fancy one for the traffic.
  
  But - on your case .. 20,000 PV's per 10 minutes >> translates to 20000/10 = 2000 PV's per minute or ~~ 33PV's per second. A lot of hosts (i think) place limitations on your server to limit only 75 or 100 users that can access your site simultaneously .. and, 33 per second is almost simultaneously. Having uneven traffic, this is probably why your server is crashing and has nothing to do with your server or traffic or database .. it's the CPU resources accessing the information all at once.
  
  One way to get around the possibility of of all these people using your CPU resources to access your data from your blog .. is to use a caching program that reads your data once, and puts it into like an .html page that is less resource usage intensive. (wp-super-cache plugin for wordpress). I would wonder if you are using this plugin, and regardless - I just noticed your blog is on version 2.2.2 .. version 2.3 is a major upgrade, and the wp-super-cache is probably more effective on the higher versioned blogs as it gets updated over time.
9/19/08

DocNicole

wow thanks petlvr! That was really helpful and I will upgrade my blog asap!

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1. 9/19/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  don't forget to make a backup first of your MysQL database .. and when you upgrade .. do it in steps..
  e.g. 2.2.2 > 2.3.3
  check plugins that may not be compatible at this point and deactivate.
  then 2.3.3 > 2.5.1
  then 2.5.1 > 2.6.2