-----Original Message----- From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:52 PM To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List Cc: Richard Sidlin Subject: Re: [BlueOnyx:12508] Large Website
On 3/11/2013 8:40 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote: > Hi list > We have been asked to quote on what could be a large website that could > grow quickly as more business come on board. MySQL will be the database > of choice. Depending on the hardware, if I was to install BO and just > use that installation for this one site, are there any limits that BO > has or is it based entirely on the hardware? If we want to load balance > it, would that be simple to do? > Thanks > Richard >>Hi Richard, >>I'm not sure what kind of limits you are looking for, but I can tell you >>that we have customers that use relatively modest hardware to serve >>"large" websites. (You know, that's sort of a relative term, right?) :) >> When I measure large, I'm usually measuring by traffic in terms of >>transfer. One of the sites in particular is on a PE-850 with 4GB RAM >>running 5108R. It's an active writers and fan-fiction community that >>is pushing a steady 30Mbps, peaking to about double that. That's a >>fair amount of traffic, especially for a single box! Load average only >>exceeds whole-number 1 when running Raqbackup.sh overnight. >>Now, we have helped them "cheat" a little bit. For instance, we've >>installed Lighttpd on the box and are using it to serve out much of the >>static content on the sites. That takes a load off of Apache. We've >>also counseled with them a bit on optimizing their sites for most >>efficient loading. They came to us with a real basket-case, and they've >>since done a pretty good job of cleaning things up. We are also >>actively in the midst of helping them to redevelop their entire >>community based on new code wrapped around a WordPress engine. The >>launch of that is still some time away, but since they have now picked >>up traffic from another couple of competing sites, I do not foresee the >>traffic slowing down. >>I wouldn't be scared away from a "big website". I would want to get >>some more insight on exactly what that means. But I think I can >>confidently say that BlueOnyx would be up to the task as much as any >>other LAMP server would be. BX is no less capable than, say, cPanel or >>Plesk or DirectAdmin when it comes to efficiently serving out a website. >>OTOH, we have another customer who wasn't quite able to wrap their heads >>around that, and instead got some advice from an outside consultant. >>There has been all sorts of investment in servers, switches, >>virtualization, load-balancing... and the site doesn't run any faster, >>and certainly not as reliably. But, they didn't want to listen to us >>when we made our recommendation (which was based on real-world use, not >>some sort of theoretical shopping list.) <shrug> I've only been doing >>this since 1996, so I probably don't have enough experience. >>Please don't misunderstand me to be saying that a stock BX load is your >>best bet in all cases. I just use that to illustrate that you shouldn't >>get carried away with your system requirements. >>If you need any help, let the list know. I'm sure there are some good >>brains that can help you out if you get stuck! -- >>Chris Gebhardt >>VIRTBIZ Internet Services >>Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated >>www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ Thanks Chris I appreciate your advice. Richard _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx