Dedicated Server 'or' Amazon S3

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I am wanting to get a dedicated server for all my websites and files. I currently have a downloading website which is about 150 GB of memory. Files included zip, and images plus sites are all Wordpress based. My question is currently I have a shared hosting account and pages are starting to run very slow, for example to load. Downloading files are ok, just takes time to load pages. I have been told running on 'any' web sever (does not matter is dedicated or not) reduces the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server. Other users recommend me to use a service for example like Amazon S3. But I am wanting to have all my files and site on one server. So my question is if I were to purchase a dedicated server will the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server be just the same (Running slow at times) or do I 'need' to run all media files in the cloud with a server like Amazon S3?
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  • Well it's the PHP files that take up system resources such as CPU and RAM, not media files which eat up the bandwidth. You can used Amazon S3 combined with Amazon CloudFront as CDN to serve your static files which will speed up the site, and host the site on either on a VPS/dedicated server or Amazon EC2.

    I think you're a bit confused about the system load issue, the post title should have been "Dedicated Server 'or' Amazon EC2". S3 just serves static files such as JPG, CSS, JS, etc, not PHP files which you need a web server to process or run.

    Pardon me if I confused you further.
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  • 150GB of Memory or Disk Space?

    I'd expect the latter. Amazon can be confusing to setup if you are new to it. I'd recommend you audit (or hire an expert - someone like DIY WP Blog – WordPress Optimization, Development, Tutorials & more…) your site first to determine where the problems lie.
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  • Thanks for your support and information. I do understand, you did not confuse me. So do you recon that I should get a dedicated host with good bandwidth etc. If I do this (not too worry about money at this stage) then will I have to worry about the average CPU load / memory requirement loading pages/files?
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    • Impossible to comment on this as I don't know anything about your site / what you're running.

      A customer I'm current helping out uses a server with AMD Opteron 16-core server with 72 GB RAM, but his server still goes down when there is a traffic spike.

      A good server doesn't mean good hardware config, but good software/service configuration (Apache and MySQL to start with).
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    Dedicated Server 'or' Amazon S3

    I am wanting to get a dedicated server for all my websites and files. I currently have a downloading website which is about 150 GB of memory. Files included zip, and images plus sites are all Wordpress based. My question is currently I have a shared hosting account and pages are starting to run very slow, for example to load. Downloading files are ok, just takes time to load pages. I have been told running on 'any' web sever (does not matter is dedicated or not) reduces the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server. Other users recommend me to use a service for example like Amazon S3. But I am wanting to have all my files and site on one server. So my question is if I were to purchase a dedicated server will the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server be just the same (Running slow at times) or do I 'need' to run all media files in the cloud with a server like Amazon S3?