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When To Move To A Dedicated Server?

by JJOrana
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If you have around 10,000 visits per day, you think it's about time to go dedicated server?

We have one site with that load and every 2 months or so our hosting company shuts down the site for overloading.

Our CMS uses caching. Site have very few images on it yet it still causes an overload every time.

The thing is... the price difference between shared and dedicated is huge.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance!
#dedicated #move #server
  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    Originally Posted by JJOrana View Post

    If you have around 10,000 visits per day, you think it's about time to go dedicated server?

    We have one site with that load and every 2 months or so our hosting company shuts down the site for overloading.

    Our CMS uses caching. Site have very few images on it yet it still causes an overload every time.

    The thing is... the price difference between shared and dedicated is huge.

    Any advice?

    Thanks in advance!
    You should definitely be on a dedicated server at 10,000 visitors a day IMO. There's no reason not to be. You can get decent ones for $100/month that should be able to handle those loads.

    It gives you more control of your content and better reliability.
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    • Profile picture of the author Inari
      If you have around 10,000 visits per day, you think it's about time to go dedicated server?
      absolutely. especially if the site has nontrivial scripts or heavy content (video, large images, etc). we started out on shared, later went on to VPSs, later to dedicated dualcore Athlons at VolumeDrive ($39.95/mo) and recently have been using dedicated 8-core Xeons at server4you.net which are absolutely excellent and can handle 50k+ uniques a day with heavy PHP and lots of images without twitching, at only 79€/mo.

      with a site that gets 10k/day, you should be able to monetize it well enough to pay for those $100/month quite a few times over, and the difference in speed and stability can be quite dramatic.
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      • Profile picture of the author JJOrana
        Any hosting recommendations? I'm currently in hostgator...
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke Graham
    Originally Posted by JJOrana View Post

    If you have around 10,000 visits per day, you think it's about time to go dedicated server?

    We have one site with that load and every 2 months or so our hosting company shuts down the site for overloading.

    Our CMS uses caching. Site have very few images on it yet it still causes an overload every time.

    The thing is... the price difference between shared and dedicated is huge.

    Any advice?

    Thanks in advance!
    Have you considered moving to a VPS before going dedicated? There is a slight price difference but you are far more in control of your server; its unlikely to be suspended since you have your own resources. If you cant yet afford a dedicated, its might be the better option.

    Most of the time the resources you get are "burstable" into the shared part as well.

    There is a bit of a learning curve if you arent familiar with the more tech side of things, but if you are considering a dedicated server then you will need those skills anyway.

    I would recommend servint - though they arent the cheapest ones around their service/support is top.

    There's also cloud services appearing - be careful that what you are buying is ACTUALLY cloud since its a buzzword, and people are trying to cash in on old VM's and stuff, but they should let you up resources as and when needed (for a cost of course)
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