[support] VPS/Dedicated hosting

[sander-martijn]

Actually it gets a bit more complicated.  You're also likely sharing 
resources like ethernet connections, and still somewhat succeptible to 
what others are doing.

I also think that media intensive pages aren't going to be where you 
encounter issues when it comes to drupal.  It's more likely going to be 
related to the requirements of the construction of the page.

One rather extreme example is a client who has seemingly fairly simple 
requirements and not a huge traffic load but certain elements on the 
page - for example drop-down menus for the entire site - cause a massive 
amount of database queries (1100/page) to load each page.  Block caching 
(menus don't change often) and other techniques have reduced this number 
and helped, but because of the way drupal works it's still a heavy site 
- and that's with few images and next to no media.  It's heavy on the 
database, a major shared resource.

In short, there's really no way to say that all sites with a certain set 
of requirements will work with a given solution.  I never thought the 
site I'm speaking of would have these issues (granted it was my first 
drupal project and i had a lot to learn about the architecture at that 
point).

In general, drupal is a pretty hoggy system - if you have experience 
building java/jsp sites, spec your server out similarly to that.  If you 
spec it like you would other php apps you'll probably be disappointed.

.s


Brett Evanson wrote:
> I'm trying to decide between dedicated hosting and a VPS setup. Make 
> sure I understand this correctly. In both cases, you can control your 
> mysql connections, and you get all of them, so that won't change. The 
> thing that changes between a VPS and a dedicated server is the amount of 
> RAM and CPU that you are given, right?
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> Having said that, for a site that isn't media intensive (mostly flat 
> page), how am I to gauge how much RAM/CPU I need, especially when the 
> numbers for expected visitors is obviously throwing a dart at a board? 
> Is there any general rule of thumb for how many page views/users/hits 
> translates into xxx RAM/CPU requirements?
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> I understand this is a almost ridiculous question, as it is difficult to 
> pinpoint something like this, but am I able to expect hundreds of users 
> on a VPS? Thousands? 20? Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
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