Re: FN-FORUM: Dedicated linux hosting query

date posted 21st August 2003 14:31

Thanks to all who answered, I've got to put some thought into what to do=
next.

I have clarified with them that when they say 100 concurrent connections=20
they don't just mean on the database the are talking overall.

Does anyone have any idea about how to monitor overall connections? I have=
=20
a dev server here with the website on and want to see how many concurrent=20
connections normal browsing by one user accounts for, to see if I can=20
optimise the site in some way, to reduce connections.

I thought that if one PHP page opens a mysql database and does 3/4/5..=20
queries, this is one connection not 3/4/5 etc. So optimisations of=20
individual scripts is not going to bring to connections down unless I can=
=20
remove the connection to mysql altogether on some pages. Is this right?

I'm gradually getting more confused!

Thanks,

Bill



At 20:11 20/08/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>A quickish query, I have a website which is currently hosted for about=20
>=A3300 a year (shared server). It has recently come up for renewal and I=
=20
>received an invoice for next year - same price etc.
>
>Today is the last day on last years contract, tomorrow is the new one=20
>which I have yet to pay, and today I received an email from the company,=20
>saying that I have reached the upper limit of their current package and=20
>lately, it has begun to use more than its allocated number of connections;=
=20
>at times it has used over 100 simultaneous connections blah blah. I=20
>should reduce the connections or consider a dedicated server.
>
>Their dedicated server starts at a scary =A32250 / year which is a huge=
leap=20
>in cost, which I'm not best pleased about. However I knew that the time=20
>to upgrade was inevitable. My current bandwidth is about 10Gig a=20
>month. The limit of the dedicated server is about 40Gig a month.
>
>So, to the point at last...
>*Does this seem like a reasonable upgrade or is it massive overkill? I=20
>don't like the cost, but I've had a quick look round and it doesn't seem=20
>to bad, but I need to have a more extensive look, I could have done with=20
>more notice from them!
>*Also there was a website which was basically a forum about web hosting=20
>(in the UK?) I seem to remember, any ideas?
>
>PS The website is on a linux box, and uses all the usual -=20
>apache/php/mysql and gets about 10Gig/month traffic, that's basically it.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Bill
>
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