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Storm
February 19th, 2007, 08:08 AM
The pro package at Hostgator Dual 2.4GHz Xeons cannot cope with my site and my site is very slow during peak hours . .. they told me i get 900 concurrent connections to apache at times .. My images are hosted on my server ..

Does anyone know to which host i can go ?:helpsmilie:

Thanks
rob
February 19th, 2007, 08:22 AM
Split your web and image server up. I would get 2-3 image servers and cluster them with a load balancer.
Storm
February 19th, 2007, 08:53 AM
Split your web and image server up. I would get 2-3 image servers and cluster them with a load balancer.


Thanks but i cannot afford to buy a load balancer which is $10000 . Do you think it is a good idea to move them to Photobucket ?
idzone
February 19th, 2007, 10:52 PM
You do not need to buy a load-balancer and it certainly doesn't cost as much as you say. Try webhostingtalk.com for more knowledge on this.
primus
February 19th, 2007, 10:53 PM
Is photobucket really a good thing?
rob
February 20th, 2007, 09:59 AM
Thanks but i cannot afford to buy a load balancer which is $10000 . Do you think it is a good idea to move them to Photobucket ?
You don't have to use a hardware load balancer -- that was just an example. Round-robin DNS is free to do although it's not as accurate.

I would just get a single image server with a lot of RAM and an unmetered connection -- say, 20Mbps unmetered (which would give you around ~6TB bandwidth/month). This should certainly help reduce the load on your website.

I personally wouldn't trust Photobucket to host my images: when I host them myself, I know for sure the URL structure won't change or they won't get deleted / account suspended. I like the control.

rob
primus
February 21st, 2007, 12:25 AM
You don't have to use a hardware load balancer -- that was just an example. Round-robin DNS is free to do although it's not as accurate.

I would just get a single image server with a lot of RAM and an unmetered connection -- say, 20Mbps unmetered (which would give you around ~6TB bandwidth/month). This should certainly help reduce the load on your website.

I personally wouldn't trust Photobucket to host my images: when I host them myself, I know for sure the URL structure won't change or they won't get deleted / account suspended. I like the control.

rob
Does it sometimes happen that they suspend accounts? :surrender:
ZoNiak
March 7th, 2007, 01:34 PM
i buy my hosting at host monater and the're is my load balance lol