I haven't hit the limit - but I only get a couple hundred page views a day. It would be interesting to hear from someone who was up against the limit 1. does fastcgi help? 2. any modules to enable/disable/tweak? 3. etc. The performance and scalability forum has more good information: htttp://drupal.org/forum/49 There is also a handbook page on this: http://drupal.org/node/2601 It's worth noting that the CPU limit is now 60 minutes a day. If you assume a 4 processor box and that everyone maxes out every day, that limits a shared host to 96 users (if my understanding of that stats involved is correct). 96 users/server seems like a pretty reasonable number. Other hosts I've been on have been in the hundreds. Greg On 1/18/06, Will Wyatt <will@willwyatt.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm also a dreamhoster who is just getting into Drupal. I'm in the process of developing a drupal website (http://test.cubiclearmy.com) and am wondering if you know the load a Dreamhost Drupal website can take before it hits the 30-40 cpu minutes. It is a little hard for me to guess since the site isn't live, but it has the potential to have hundreds of visitors a day. I can't afford dedicated hosting unless those hundreds of visitors a day will make enought AdSense traffic to justify the dedicated box (which I doubt). Thanks for any insights.
On 12/29/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/29/05, Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr@mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:20:45AM +0100, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
People with hosters that only allow them a limited number of queries
per
hour will have fun with this.
There are such hosts? OMG...
It's a tough debate - I use dreamhost which follows a limiting policy:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/?area=2583
"We still track them[number of queries and connections], but unless you're in the top .01% of our database users, you'll never need to worry about conuery usage again!"
The good side is that it keeps the server under a reasonable load and my server doesn't get bogged down by some custom application that has horrible performance. The downside is that long before you fill up the transfer/month or disk space or...you will use up your 30-40 minutes of CPU time/day.
Greg
-- Proud member of the KEXP cubicle army. http://www.cubiclearmy.com