Re: Server limits/recommendations

Hi Ian, I've also been using PHP at HostPro. They are using PHP 4.0.1pl1 on our NT server, which is really old. What version do you have on your server? I definitely recommend you switch over to Linux or get HostPro to upgrade their PHP to a newer more stable version if possible. The config mentioned below looks cool, the only concern is backups as you don't have mirroring with only 1 EIDE hard disks. The reason we are using HostPro is because the site was originally ASP, and we moved some pages to PHP because we had a large library of PHP code (phpLens stuff -- see http://phplens.com) that we could reuse for the site. Regards, john Ian Evans <ianevans@friedspamdigitalhit.com> wrote in message news:3B058B8B.6010802@friedspamdigitalhit.com... > I'd really like to move our site to a dedicated server, but I'm not > ready to lay down the monthly cash for a multi-SCSI drived 1gig ram > beast -- yet. > > Right now we're hosted by the oxymoronically named HostPro. We're on a > shared NT server with a SQL Server ODBC connection and we use PHP to do > a lot of the stuff on the site. > > There's stuff that just doesn't work. For example, I have better odds > rolling the dice than hoping that my databse insert form for our > entertainment news will work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't > and "Support" (they had to name it something I guess) has never been > able to figure out why. > > Covering the world of entertainment, we can average 10,000 pageviews a > day but will swing up to 200,000+ on days like the Oscars. We've seen > our bandwidth usage swing from 80meg a day to 3gig. > > I'd just like to get into an entry-level dedicated linux server, running > apache, PHP and MySQL. I've looked at Rackspace as other contacts have > recommended them and their entry level system consists of: > > 750 Mhz Processor > 256MB RAM > 20GB EIDE Drive > 10GB/Month Burstable Bandwidth > > I'm looking for input on that configuration. The way I see it, if we're > surviving on a shared server now, we'll still be able to stretch our > feet and grow a bit (as well as being able to do things that we can't in > our shared NT server) before we need to add memory and go to SCSI, etc. > > Do you concur? > > Thanks! > -- > Ian Evans > Digital Hit Entertainment - News and Information > http://www.digitalhit.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >