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Thinking or upgrading from VPS to Dedicated
Hello
My current VPS spec from rocketvps is 4 CORE E5645 @ 2.40GHz with 2.5G Burst RAM
My problem currently is RAM that sometimes do not enough and need some restart of httpd to clear process. Upgrading RAM is not option for me since their product already merge to knownhost and the price after upgrade may not good in term of value.
So I am thinking of some lowend dedicated server
Dell F1D 2x5140 16GB 4x146GB SAS RTO
Is this spec good enough compare to old vps (I am just worry about this CPU model to run around 10 site with 100 visitors daily and have many cron task (Above 30)
Please advise
Thank
zidit
Comments
Change with nginx, man
Isn't "lowend" more like a >10$/m kimsufi?
i think a dual 5140 will run fine... especially as its ram that is your bottleneck and not cpu...
I would open a sales ticket and ask them
What is your budget? Do you pay 24,99$ for that VPS? And what location are you interested?
@hawkjohn7 mentioned nginx...are you running Apache? nginx will get a lot more out of a lot less. You may not need a new server, just a new web server.
Not the op but sadly there are a few apps that don't support nginx...
Thank you for all comment.
Old vps is running with cPanel/WHM
Like i mention you guys about RAM problem and seems provider do not assign RAM amount correctly. Sometimes it shows that my vps is using max 2.5gb ram with minimum process (only 37 processes at the time)
I have worked with them several times. They fix but finally problem occur again over again.
That's why i am considering about dedicated
It's confusing and hard to wrap your head around it but... Apparently its normal to seem to use up all your ram for nothing.
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I had 4 gb ram on a vps, and all the files on it (including the OS, wordpress, php, sql etc) added up to less than 4 gb. Somehow all the ram was being used for 'caching'... I still don't understand it to this day but... Getting a dedi is never a bad thing if your sites are experiencing issues
You opened the same thread at WHT. So now I know you have the info needed.
10 sites with 100 visitors daily???? Why do you need a dedicated server?
5140 is really old CPU why do not you think about a VPS with didcted cores?
There are more than one provider who can give you such VPS for lower price
Than what you will pay for such old server.
netcup are good and now there is also a new player DediSLice
I think you should consider this option ...
Use engintron for whm and your resource usage will decrease
It is not mine. I only open the thread here not wht
I do 2 million requests and 50k UVs per day and the site runs smoothly on a 4G ram VPS. I suggest you to do optimizations on software side first.
There is a great offer from Joe's Datacenter at lowendbox right now for $20/month. They offer a 2x quadcore processor (Xeon L5420 is from 2008 though, but there's 2 of them!). https://lowendbox.com/blog/joes-datacenter-20month-dual-l5420-w-8gb-ram-500gb-hdd-kansas-city/
I don't know anything the about the reputation of that datacenter, though. Other users seem to be embracing this datacenter for the "lowend" character.
If he's running pure PHP content, its better to stick w/ Apache. Nginx with php-fpm works better for static websites w/ some PHP content.
EDIT: W/ ref. to Apache 2.4; older versions like 2.2 had significantly lower performance compared Nginx. Also if browser caching is done right, static files shouldn't be that much of a problem anyway!
I jumped on that bandwagon and bought one. Performance is good enough, it is only 1 drive though so no RAID. Only issue is no reboot/shutdown/re-install/KVM access without a ticket, so not much self serve. Support is quick though to answer.
@zidit please tell us location+bandwidth+price wished and do you need HW raid ?