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Website Hosting Space and Bandwidth

by rosetrees
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This probably isn't the right forum for asking this, but I couldn't work out the best place to put this post.

Is there a way of finding out how much server resources a website uses if you don't have access to the site?

I'm asking on behalf of a contact who runs an active forum, that is hosted by a one man band type host. They have fallen out and the site needs its own dedicated server.

Problem is, without knowing how much resources it uses I don't know what size of server we are looking at.

I need the "who is" of server resources. Is there such a thing?

Thanks
#bandwidth #hosting #space #website
  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    What software do they plan on using for the site?

    How many daily visitors?

    How many posts per day?
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    ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Visitors and posts I might have access to as I'm a moderator.

      The site runs Wordpress on the front end and vBulletin for the forum.

      I think I was hoping there was a website I could go to that would tell me the resources used. Probably a forlorn hope.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Unless the site has a high volume of traffic, any entry level dedicated server should be adequate. Just make sure you get a managed server. If your traffic ends up overloading the server, most if not all hosts will move to a larger server quickly, not so much the other way.
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    ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Hope
    You might consider a cloud VPS. Start on the small end of resource allocation, and if needed you can turn up the dial on those easily and quickly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

    This probably isn't the right forum for asking this, but I couldn't work out the best place to put this post.

    Is there a way of finding out how much server resources a website uses if you don't have access to the site?

    I'm asking on behalf of a contact who runs an active forum, that is hosted by a one man band type host. They have fallen out and the site needs its own dedicated server.

    Problem is, without knowing how much resources it uses I don't know what size of server we are looking at.

    I need the "who is" of server resources. Is there such a thing?

    Thanks
    Not really. In this case, it's similar to the domain value estimating tools - it's just a guess.

    Without access to raw server logs & bandwidth, CPU etc graphs, there's really not a way you can tell what it uses.
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