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| Posted by BostonLegalFan, 11-21-2007, 12:06 AM |
| I have a moderately large set of websites (between 10 and 20,000 uniques per day) that I'm looking to get hosted on a reseller provider.
I have been on dedicated for several years, but I've recently become too busy with outside endeavors to properly upkeep my sites. Consequently, traffic has fallen about 50% and my revenue no longer justifies having a top-of-the-line SoftLayer server. Though I'm still easily profiting, I am an active college student and spend a lot of money on food, alcohol and weightlifting supplements, along with things like movies, cable bill, video games, etc. I don't feel like I should be running anywhere near a "break even" when I account for such expenses, considering I still have a popular website network.
The problem with cutting back to, say, a smaller server is that I'm not sure it'll fully work for me. Though I on average run with a low load that would probably be sustained even on a Celeron server with 1 or 2GB, I cover wrestling and MMA and have several days (pay-per-view coverage) that feature dramatic traffic increases, to the point where my current Dual-Server, Quad-Core with 4GB struggles.
Thus, I'd essentially be paying $200 or so for a server that doesn't get the job done. While that's better than the $330 or so I pay now, it's still a lot to not have total satisfaction.
I've recently been looking into reseller hosts and noticed that I can get the specs I need in the $50-70 ballpark. That's the type of decrease I'd want if I'm going to accept imperfections. The question is what kind of imperfections should I expect?
I know that many resellers oversell, but if they're overselling to a bunch of tiny sites, shouldn't I be better off (since I'd be getting great performance on a completely managed and secured box)? Or, are people thinking of this same strategy and loading up reseller servers, to the point where performance would be awful?
Can anyone recommend reseller hosts that would get the job done for me (allow for traffic up to say 50,000 daily uniques on HTML/PHP pages; no message boards) below $100? I'd need at least 60GB of space and would want 500GB of b/w as a minimum. cPanel is obviously preferred.
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| Posted by Jedito, 11-21-2007, 12:52 AM |
| Do you really think that you'll get the power of dual quad server for $75?, your site it's going to be probably suspended, and for good reason, your site does not belong to a shared server.
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| Posted by Annex, 11-21-2007, 12:52 AM |
| During these traffic spikes you likely would be booted off if your 2 x Quad Core struggles. You should just ask Softlayer if you could try their celeron, or a P4 server for a few months and see how it reacts to the spikes. If not you could always try a Core 2 Duo. I wouldn't recommend going to a reseller environment unless it was a clustered reseller host, because then when your website brings the servers that are equal or lesser to a standstill, its not fair to all the other people who's websites you are bringing down.
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| Posted by ldcdc, 11-21-2007, 01:07 AM |
| If that server gets to the point where it is struggling, you're highly unlikely to fare OK in a reseller hosting environment. As soon as performance is affected, the busiest sites on the server will be suspended.
If there's a chance to survive in a reseller hosting environment, it would be in a clustered environment, with your busy sites hosted on different servers (both web and database), so that when the popularity high hits, the extra load doesn't go to a single server, but to a bunch of them.
Hsphere providers are the ones typically using a platform that can enable the setup I mentioned. With that 500GB requirement though, IMO you're much safer with that dedicated server you've got.
Maybe the server environment or applications you're using could be optimized to the point where a lower grade hardware could cope with the load peaks?
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| Posted by BostonLegalFan, 11-21-2007, 01:34 AM |
| I guess what I was thinking was that a server hosting reseller plans would be totally loaded up (best processor, 8-16GB of ram, RAID, etc) to the point where none of my traffic could come close to maxing it out.
As for bandwidth, I only use 200GB a month, but I figured I'd say 500 since most plans I've seen with the amount of HD I need feature that kind of BW.
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| Posted by SSHocker, 11-21-2007, 01:57 AM |
| A host running that much firepower is going to spread it across users, the cost of such a setup would be such that they would have rocks in their head to devote 25% to one user
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| Posted by 01globalnet, 11-21-2007, 02:30 PM |
| Probably, a host like Mosso suits your needs. They have a clustered and load balanaced setup.
Otherwise, you can isolate the sites with the high spikes in a lower dedicated and have the other sites on some good quality reseller hosts that do not oversell and be able to use all space/bandwith.
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| Posted by Nnyan, 11-21-2007, 05:27 PM |
| I agree your best bet is talking with some high end hosts like Mosso or others that offer clustered service. Let them know your needs and see what they can do for you. Whether or not you can get something you would be happy with for $100 remains to be seen.
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| Posted by Crucialp, 11-22-2007, 12:31 AM |
| Have you tweaked your server to run with websites? This may lesson the blow of the traffic spikes. You are most probably going to run in to some serious problems moving to reseller hosting and if your traffic has dropped already you will be risking losing it all. Why not tweak your current hardware or try something less powerful for a few months like others have mentioned and also put more into your sites? The end product will only be more revenue for you.
Best of luck with them!
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| Posted by Fudevs, 11-22-2007, 05:50 PM |
| Go with JaguarPc .. for sure they are the best one .. after 6 months with them i have more than 45 website ..4 of them is large forums .
recommend JaguarPC For sure
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| Posted by ldcdc, 11-22-2007, 06:45 PM |
| I'd sure ask them for a specific type of service recommendation before moving a busy site to them.
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| Posted by ~ServerPoint~, 11-23-2007, 04:16 AM |
| Why test luck in practice?
You know what your web site need. I believe that your web site still growing and soon you will need more. I think that in your case better to have small Dedicated VPS package.
Those are my thoughts.
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| Posted by Goviphosting, 11-26-2007, 02:33 PM |
| I'd say VPS is a much better option than a Reseller plan, since your concern abt Price VPS would be better option than reseller and much cheaper than Dedicated sever
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| Posted by TmzHosting, 11-26-2007, 03:56 PM |
| Maybe you can get a semi-dedicated. Or a VPS?
- Prilep
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| Posted by 040Hosting, 11-26-2007, 06:11 PM |
| I would not recommend any reseller services to you, instead i would look for a host which can give you fully managed dedicated hosting, and with fully managed i mean fully managed as if you where on a shared box. Sure it cost you some money, but you get something back for it as well.
Good luck with your search!
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| Posted by VoViVo, 11-26-2007, 06:50 PM |
| A Semi Dedicated or VPS will be your solution .
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| Posted by powerdccombr, 11-27-2007, 07:05 PM |
| hi,
how many site do you have?
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| Posted by MattS, 11-27-2007, 08:26 PM |
| I wouldn't go with a reseller with that much traffic. You would get terminated right away. Your best bet would be either with a Semi- Dedicated or VPS as those are much cheaper than the big box itself.
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