heys, i didnt mean to offend.<br><br>For a dedicated server, you will be able to deliver a much better user experience as the performance will deteriorate only in accordance with your load which you can monitor and plan for. On a shared host you are at the mercy of a shared hosting company. You prob dont need a dedicated host, can get away with a good vps, but if you've got 30 users hammering the server for 30 minutes then you have spikes to deal with, which was the bane of web1.0. there are more options to deal with this now like automating ec2 instances to come up and down dependant on demand, but they are nothing to do with drupal. they are infrastructure engineering issues, which is what i was trying to say.<br>
<br>It seems to me that the performance issue is an infrastructure, not an application, performance issue.<br><br>Sorry if i came across badly. been up all day!<br><br>steev<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Daniel Carrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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If you're servicing all the schools in kent, then maybe the figures are real.<br>
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I'm not really. I don't know how many schools we have in Kent. For all I know, it could just be this one school. For one school, I would expect at *MOST* 100 simultaneous users, but more likely 30 (one classroom).<br>
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How many HTTP connections would 30 kids using a website generate? I have no real sense of proportion here...<div class="im"><br>
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But tbh, you're barking up the wrong tree. Dont take this the wrong way, but you need to run this like a popular e-commerce site, not a hobby site.<br>
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We would not have moved to UH if we saw this as a hobby site. In any case, I do expect to scale up the service as our needs increase. I just would like to have a better understanding of what our needs actually are (e.g. is 500 connections reasonable?).<div class="im">
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If you have thousands of users then shared hosting is no longer appropriate and just wont scale as their business model relies on lots of inactive websites.<br>
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I think we have about 2,000 users on the Drupal site or so. The large majority are inactive. Would you guess that kind of site merits a dedicated server?<br>
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As I've said earlier, UH does not over-sell their resources (e.g. disk space and bandwidth). So the comment about their business model, while not wrong, is less true for this particular host than you might think.<div class="im">
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Even if you could move hosts, its not really going help however you configure Drupal as the problem seems to be at an edge traffic shaping device. Thats only my opinion tho. <br>
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