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A good one for ya.
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Name: jm
Date: August 6, 2005 at 14:09:33 Pacific
Subject: A good one for ya.OS: xpCPU/Ram: 789 |
Comment: Hi guys. I need help badly. I need your advice. I want to host several phpbb forums (ONLY phpbb forums) and I found a managed VPS host with the following specifications:
Starter 200GB VPS
Equal share CPU
256MB Burst RAM
5GB RAID1 Storage
Root Access 2 IP Addresses*
128MB RAM guaranteed
200GB Monthly Transfer
Unlimited domains Hardware: DELL PowerEdge
Dual 3.06Ghz Processors
4-12GB Ram Per server
Included Applications
AWstats 6.4
Apache mod_perl 1.99_12
Fedora Core 1 Development Tools p4
Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager 2.1.5
My Control Panel
MySQL server 3.23.58
Open WebMail 2.50
PHP (Fedora Core 1) 4.3.8
ProFTP server 1.2.10
SSH
SSL for Apache 2.0.50
Secure FrontPage Apache Server Extensions 5.0.2.2635
SpamAssassin 2.63
System Administrator Control Panel
UW IMAP and POP3 servers 2002d-3
Workgroup Administrator Control Panel
ZendOptimizer 2.1.0b
Now, they told me that they can upgrade or install whatever applications I want. I do want the best of the best to run my boards (not too busy now). If it were you, what would you ask your host to install/upgrade/ask. Please include version of software....
Please choose the best and tell it to me straight I don't mind. More than one advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Response Number 1
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Name: -Bryan-
Date: August 6, 2005 at 15:57:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It doesn't take much to run a couple phpBB forums, so that software should do you fine. The only problem I can think of, is that depending on how popular your forums are, the 128mb of RAM and the equal share CPU (if they split it up to like 4 or 8 VPS's great, but what if it's 50?) might cause some major slowdowns, simply due to the fact that the server is parsing every single page that's delivered. The CPU/RAM requirements are going to be considerably more than if you were just serving a couple static sites. If your forums aren't that popular, you should have nothing to worry about.
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Response Number 3
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Name: -Bryan-
Date: August 6, 2005 at 23:32:56 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You're welcome JM. You still haven't said how popular your forums are hitwise or visits per hour or such, but like I mentioned, as long as they're not incredibly busy, that setup should do you quite well. Plus with the VPS, you're more immune to some of the other crap you get with shared hosting, like other people degrading your site with their malicious content, power-hugry scripts, etc. You should be pretty happy with that config.
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Response Number 4
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Name: jm
Date: August 7, 2005 at 09:26:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi Bryan. Thanks again. Sorry, left that info. out. Well, I think I'd be on the safe side as my boards have 300 + members but is not very busy. Around 150 threads total, maybe 1500 posts on both boards. I get lately about 7-15 participating members at the same time on each board. Was thinking to ad 3 more boards for different topics on this new VPS account. I know I could have gone with a shared hosting but I'm just sick and tired of them. Changed a lot of hosts in the last 6 months. Well, I guess the configuration of the server is fine huh... Will get working... Thank you Bryan for everything.
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