[GLLUG] How much can I host?
Benjamin Minshall
minshal1 at msu.edu
Tue Aug 31 11:44:37 EDT 2004
Seth Bembeneck wrote:
> I’m trying to get a handle on what I’m able to handle in the area of web
> site hosting.
>
The content that you want to host makes the difference. Are you hosting
static HTML? Images? Linux mirrors (lots of large tarballs)? PHP?
Database backend? How many hits per day? KB per day? Many, many, many
factors play into this.
PHP/Perl/etc will require a substantially more powerful server than
static HTML and images would in a hit-for-hit comparison; although, on a
low traffic site nearly any machine could handle the load.
>
>
> How can I tell if I’m trying to host too much on my webserver? Any thing
> that I should be looking for?
If the hard drive light is on all the time or if top reports CPU usage
hovering at 1.0, if it takes a long time to get a page to load, etc.
>
> Webserver specs:
> 400mhz cpu
> 256mb ram
> 12 GB harddrive
>
This should be fine for most applications.
>
>
> Also is there any way to tell if I’m overloading my bandwidth? I have
> 386kbs up/ 1.5 down.
I don't really think you can "overload" bandwidth, but you could max out
your connection's upstream capabilities. Try installing webalizer or
similar web traffic analyzer that reports average KB served/hour and
other such stats. You can calculate from those stats if you're
consistently at your connection limits.
Unless you're doing _tons_ of dynamic content, I'd say it's just about
impossible under normal conditions to overload a 400MHz web server with
384k outbound; a 386 could flood that connection without trouble.
>
> Is my understanding that when hosting, the upstream is more important
> then the downstream?
Absolutely.
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