When Do You Switch To A VPS Or Dedicated?
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1k clicks isn't a lot, depends on other variables too, such as size of site, sql size, video etc.
Also helps if you are making enough to go to the next level and get an appropriate ROI
Also helps if you are making enough to go to the next level and get an appropriate ROI
There's some nice information on linode's forums about how people scale their linux distributions. I forget the post, but the guy who's point I really liked was using their lowest plan (which has about 250MB of RAM if I remember correctly, since I have long since moved from their service). He was getting about 24k visitors a day to his site and the main thing that caused him any grief were dynamic pages on the site. That's what ate up the CPU and RAM.
So, he let Apache run the dynamic calls and had the config let another web server deal with static pages that was more efficient for this. I think he said he went to about 36-40k+ visitors a day prior to upgrading to another plan using this method.
A lot of people use dedicated servers when they'd be just fine with a VPS, and a lot of people use VPS' when they could get by just fine on shared hosting. It really comes down to the configuration of your box and distribution.
If you compress your databases, put indexes on commonly called fields in database tables, compress your large files and images, compress your javascripts and CSS files, then you'd have no problem sitting on a shared host account. I sat on one and used my .htaccess file to make directories appear as their own site so I could have 12 sites running on a plan that cost me $60 a year. I think each site was averaging 500-1200 visitors a day depending on the time of year. I only swapped off there because I needed to buy a VPS to do some other things.
So, he let Apache run the dynamic calls and had the config let another web server deal with static pages that was more efficient for this. I think he said he went to about 36-40k+ visitors a day prior to upgrading to another plan using this method.
A lot of people use dedicated servers when they'd be just fine with a VPS, and a lot of people use VPS' when they could get by just fine on shared hosting. It really comes down to the configuration of your box and distribution.
If you compress your databases, put indexes on commonly called fields in database tables, compress your large files and images, compress your javascripts and CSS files, then you'd have no problem sitting on a shared host account. I sat on one and used my .htaccess file to make directories appear as their own site so I could have 12 sites running on a plan that cost me $60 a year. I think each site was averaging 500-1200 visitors a day depending on the time of year. I only swapped off there because I needed to buy a VPS to do some other things.
Switch as early as possible, less people will be affected when you do.
Rackspace Cloud offers cloud servers (that scale up to 16GB RAM) really cheap.
I have one 512GB server with them and pay around 20€/month which is not a lot of money for having my own webserver with dedicated IP and great support service.
Rackspace Cloud offers cloud servers (that scale up to 16GB RAM) really cheap.
I have one 512GB server with them and pay around 20€/month which is not a lot of money for having my own webserver with dedicated IP and great support service.
That's what I'm thinking, though only really *need* a minimum of 512 if you must have a control panel such as whm/cpanel or directadmin. If you're willing to ditch the control panel you can run a webserver rather well on anything from 128MB to 384MB. Most offerings minimums are 256 or 384. Though it helps if you don't use something that eats reasources such as apache, instead on my own personal VPS (which is on my dedi) I use the nginx webserver.
http://www.wickedfire.com/hosting-domains/91987-leasing-vps-shared-hosting-off-my-dedi.html