Finally upgraded to a Dedicated Server!
Posted by Riley Pool | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Hosting, Recommendations | Posted on March 13th, 2010
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After crashing my VPS from Liquid Web a few times where I sent 20,000+ clicks daily, I decided to finally bite the bullet and invest in a dedicated server. After talking to the Sales and Technical Support Team over at Liquid Web we decided it would be best to go with their Professional Series. The exact specs of my server are below. I don’t think it’s a bad deal for $299/month.
Processor: Dual Xeon E5504 Quad Core (Gainstown) (2.0GHz/core)
Memory: 2GB DDR RAM
Hd1: 250GB 7200RPM SATA / 8MB Cache
Hd2: 250GB 7200RPM SATA / 8MB Cache
OS: Linux – CentOS 5 (+64 Bit)
Bandwidth: 8000GB Monthly Transfer (4000 in + 4000 out)
The only thing that worries me is the 2 gigabytes of memory. If I ever have problems with this server I will definitely double that at the least.
I wonder how many clicks it will take to crash this server? Once I find out, I’ll let you all know!
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Are you running Prosper on the server? If not, then a properly configured VPS should handle several hundred thousand hits a day without breaking a sweat.
Are those drives in RAID? Also if you do a lot of PPV I’m sure you’ll out grow that box very fast.
Yea, it’s only purpose is to handle my Prosper install.
For whatever reason, the cheap VPS at LiquidWeb kept crashing with 20k+ clicks daily. It’s sole purpose was hosting my Prosper install as well.
Eitherway, I’m happy with my dedi so far and haven’t had any hiccups.
@Sohan No, they aren’t. Should they be? I know very little when it comes to this.
Haha, I think I messed up the post date on this when I drafted it because I definitely signed up for my dedi awhile back.
You’d get better performance from it having them in RAID.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
Thanks for the advice Sohan. I’ll get with LiquidWeb and get this upgraded.
Yes I agree that the raid is an awsome choice because it’s blazing fast, but instead of having a total of 500gb, you’ll only be left with 250gb. The thing with raid is that it uses both those HD’s to split data between them, so essentially, you only have 250gb and not 500gb.