Happy April Fool day! , and Hosting Migration

Filed in: Site News — April 1st, 2007

Have you been fooled today? I was busy migrating my reseller hosting account (I am a hidden unknown hosting reseller) to another web hosting provider. The account migration was smooth. Domain name’s nameservers update was easy, although time consuming (update one by one by hands).

LiewCF.com caused slow response time on web server Everything looks good until I received an email from my new hosting provider with subject “Attention on liewcf.com”. My popular LiewCF Tech Blog is taking over 20% of system resources of the web server.

Wow! I never know my site is so resources hungry!

I was suggested to install WP-Cache and CSS Compress WordPress plugins to reduce the server load. At the server side, they were able to tweaked Apache, MySQL and PHP to cut down 50% server load. That’s impressive! The web server load is back to normal now.

My two cents

I am not sure how much the two plugins had helped to reduce server load, but I will keep them running. For your information, LiewCF Tech Blog is now taking up ~~more than 1GB~~ around 4GB bandwidth per day. I have prepared to move to a dedicated server hosting later for the first time.

Update: The daily bandwidth usage should be around 4GB/day. The total bandwidth used in March 2007 was over 119GB!

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LcF

Thanks, LeeH. I have got my dedicated server. :)

LeeH

My company, Peer 1 Network, hosts WordPress and our "Rapid Edge CDN" (content delivery network) would work great for the static content and video downloads mentioned above in Paul Tan's post.

Here are links to our sites if you wish to explore more:
Dedicated Hosting: http://www.dedicatedhosting.com
CDN: http://www.rapidedgecdn.com/

I would be happy to answer any questions anyone may have in regards to dedicated hosting and CDN.

Lee Hadsock
PEER 1 Dedicated Hosting

Louiss

Another stage of a malaysian archeivement! I wish you can have a own server this year. Malaysian Boleh!

LcF

FYI, most 100% uptime shared hosting do not accept high traffic website because it is "risky" to their uptime record.

LcF

@palmdoc: sounds like your hosting provider is over-over-selling the resourses.

luckily I don't host videos, else I will use more bandwidth. I only have pictures and text on liewcf.com.

Sajid Iqbal

WoW! Thats amazing b/w usage figures for a blog. Congrats Liew! on this acheivement. I will recomend to use Site5 hosting for your blog, it's more reliable and headache free than a dedicated server. They have uptime of 100%.

Ben

Palmdoc, i dont think that is enough to cause problems in my exp, your hosts server might be overloaded or something weird.

Paul Tan

btw, VPS not recommended. usually only 128 to 256 RAM, you can't benefit from MySQL query cache.

Paul Tan

I recently moved to a new dedicated server for my Wordpress installation. My site currently uses 2 dedicated servers, one for static media and video, the other for Wordpress and PHP. Bandwidth is over 1TB a month :O

I'm considering www.cachefly.com CDN for the static media and video hosting, perhaps you should too.

Palmdoc

Google analytics says about 1400 page views a day

Ben

Hmm only 420 a day shouldn't do it, do the other blogs get any traffic? how many page views?

Palmdoc

Yes only Wordpress applications for the php/mysql on that site. But there are 3 WP blogs.
Google analytics says about 420 unique visitors a day

Ben

Ya it probably would, how many visitors are you getting a day? Is the only php / mysql you are running wordpress?

Palmdoc

Wow 1 Gb a day. My site's stats shows about 5 Gb a month. Yet I experienced problems with my hosting (Emerge) which claimed "resource" problems. From time to time, I still get "PHP violation errors".
Would the WP-Cache plugin help I wonder?

Raymond.CC

Can consider the webhost I use WebHostingBuzz.com.

Friedbeef

Hi LCF, Consider MediaTemple... techCrunch uses them - and they seem pretty darn cheap... and they are so confident of uptime - they PAY you if they go down.

LcF

Thanks for the suggestions. If my reseller account cannot handle anymore, I will get a fully managed dedicated server and not a VPS. Maybe next year? :)

pankaj

hey can u plz tell me which hosting provider you using earlier and now.i am planing for a reseller account.

Ades

Hi Liew, try uploading large images to free image servers. Bandwidth will be an issue with shared hostings, unless you are on dedicated server with unlimited bandwidth (or 300+ GB/month).

Check out pair.com or serverpronto.com for dedicated servers. I am on pair.com and it's been no problem for many many years...

Ben

Awesome to hear, if you get a chance maybe you could leave a review of who you are using?

http://www.webhostingunleashed.com

submit the review at:
http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/submit_revie...

thanks, Ben

gecko

wow. that is impressive. 1GB per month. makes me wonder how much you are making a month. my daily bandwidth consumption is around 300MB and my hosting company is complaining already.

Scholarship

MY site also has the same problem eventhough the daily hit is less than 1500 per day. I have deactivate many plug in, remove many images, and its work as I now didnt receive any email from the hoster he he

Raymond.CC

My site is getting 3-4GB daily :( Maybe I need to optimize images and also try using CSS Compress as you've suggested. WP-Cache 2 definitely helps as I am using it too.

VPS is good but dedicated would be better ;)