Bandwidth and server load

JBenedetti · #1 01-11-2006, 12:01 AM

One of my clients, a child-care nonprofit currently on a Swamp plan, is about to be featured in a major national publication (Parade, comes free with your Sunday paper, circulation is something like 90 million). Client is running an osCommerce store. My question is this-- does anyone know how many simultaneous connections the average hostgator Swamp site can handle before it gets overloaded? I'm especially concerned about the store, which requires mySQL connections and initiates more server processes than a static site.

This client normally doesn't even come close to their bandwidth limits-- something like 1000 uniques/month hit the site on average, so I hate to bump them to a dedicated or semi-dedicated server permanently, since a week after this article lands they'll likely be back to normal traffic loads.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

Serra · #2 01-11-2006, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by JBenedetti

I'm especially concerned about the store, which requires mySQL connections and initiates more server processes than a static site.

25 connections is the limit for mySQL. (Rather low)

#3 01-11-2006, 10:32 AM

anyone know if there's any way to temporarily upgrade this? For, say, one week?

Serra · #4 01-12-2006, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

anyone know if there's any way to temporarily upgrade this? For, say, one week?

No, I doubt it because it is a server wide setting. However, you can buy a semidedicated server for $74.95 a month, on a month-to-month basis, so you could move the account to a semidedicated account for one month.

JBenedetti · #5 01-12-2006, 09:48 AM

Thanks Serra, I appreciate your responses. I'll just upgrade them and see... maybe they'll end up needing the bigger pipe for longer than I think.

JBenedetti · #6 01-15-2006, 01:31 AM

FYI, I upgraded to semi-dedicated for this site and I have been very impressed with the overall speed of the server-- a huge improvement over the Swamp package they were previously on. The move over to the new server wasn't as smooth as I had hoped though, more of a communication problem than anything else, which I'll save for another thread. But I'm thinking that I'll try to leave them on the semi-dedicated after this big push because of the performance increase.

Serra · #7 01-15-2006, 08:52 AM

I think people under estimate how good semi-dedicated and dedicated accounts are when compared to shared accounts. When I hear people complain that their shared account isn't super fast or that they are having mail problems, I just have to think that if they spent just a little more money, they would have those problems.

I'm glad to hear that everything worked out.