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Is this a dynamic or static website?
Language of the site (php/ruby/etc)?
Custom or using a CMS like wordpress/etc?
Hard to tell without knowing more.
You would probably do better with more ram
First answer what alinuxninja asked.
And define large scale. (Max hits/second, concurrent users, etc)
No really. Whats your budget
1000 visits per minute -> 17qps. Yes it's way enough if your website is correctly optimized for low specs server.
One of my website runs under about 3qps on a Linode 1G VPS, and the system load keeps under 0.1. Again, only if it's "correctly optimized".
This is not true. A page visit usually requires more than one request, considering XHR, CSS, JavaScript, image and/or other resources.
I have already excluded the static files, which don't really use that much resources if nginx or lightty are used. Disk I/O may be a concern. Yes there may be XHR but ... how much? And unnecessary XHR is also a place for optimization.
What are you paying for that? $10?
Up your budget if it's important.
Yeah, I agree, more RAM.
Also is this box dedicated to be front-end web server only, or is it also hosting your middle tier and back-end, i.e. application server and database? If yes then you'll probably have to do better than that for the traffic you're expecting.
If you have such a big usergroup that's important to you, why are you so cheap?
Spend some money, go with a large iWstack plan so you even have a true cloud server and could also do some HA if it becomes necessary at some point.