Server resource limits / restrictions?

[rickdl]

I currently run a PHPBB Discussion forum with another host provider.

I average using about 19 Gigabytes of Bandwidth Per month
I don't use that much hard drive storage, probably less than 1 gigabyte

But I've received some warnings from my provider that I'm over-consuming the server resources. My site gets about 50,000 PAGE hits a day. I guess "visits" is something else than page hits? Visits would be a lower number but I'm not sure what it is.

The site is basically just a phpbb discussion forrum. The maximum number of "phpbb visitors" on my phpbb forum I've ever had was 43. That doesn't sound like a lot too me? It averages around 25 during normal day time hours.

I never approach anywhere near my bandwidht limitations. So HostGator's "Hatchling" to me sounds like double the bandwidth and server storage than I'd ever need! It sounds perfect. But I wanted to ask if phpbb witha peak of 43 visitors would also take too much of your servers "resources" ? I don't want to move from my current host provider to you guys to only get warnings/risk-of-account suspension for the same thing?

My current host provider has suggested maybe I try a dedicated server. But for only using 19 GB of bandwidth a month do I really need to pay so much money for dedicated?
Thanks

[vtrain]

Originally Posted by rickdl

I currently run a PHPBB Discussion forum with another host provider.

I average using about 19 Gigabytes of Bandwidth Per month
I don't use that much hard drive storage, probably less than 1 gigabyte

But I've received some warnings from my provider that I'm over-consuming the server resources. My site gets about 50,000 PAGE hits a day. I guess "visits" is something else than page hits? Visits would be a lower number but I'm not sure what it is.

The site is basically just a phpbb discussion forrum. The maximum number of "phpbb visitors" on my phpbb forum I've ever had was 43. That doesn't sound like a lot too me? It averages around 25 during normal day time hours.

I never approach anywhere near my bandwidht limitations. So HostGator's "Hatchling" to me sounds like double the bandwidth and server storage than I'd ever need! It sounds perfect. But I wanted to ask if phpbb witha peak of 43 visitors would also take too much of your servers "resources" ? I don't want to move from my current host provider to you guys to only get warnings/risk-of-account suspension for the same thing?

My current host provider has suggested maybe I try a dedicated server. But for only using 19 GB of bandwidth a month do I really need to pay so much money for dedicated?
Thanks

You have to open a ticket with sales asking this questions.

43 registered users or 43 total users on the board?

You could also get the hostgator semi-dedicated. It's less expensive that a full dedicated and I'm sure it would fit your needs.

Vtrain

[rickdl]

Originally Posted by vtrain

You have to open a ticket with sales asking this questions.
43 registered users or 43 total users on the board?
You could also get the hostgator semi-dedicated. It's less expensive that a full dedicated and I'm sure it would fit your needs.
Vtrain

43 users including "guests" and registered users. There's about a 1000 registered users. But the peak amount of "guests" (i.e. basically just anonymous people looking a the forums) and registered guests was 43. The peak registered users online at the same time is more like 15 .

[Pitrow]

Sounds like you have a very similar forum to one that I run. I have a reseller package, don't know if that makes a difference or not. My forum uses about 15 GB of bandwidth a month, averages around 60k hits per day with a max up around 100k. I have 1300+ registered users and the most online at once was 41.

So it sounds like I'm running pretty much what you describe. I've been running that forum on Hostgator for about 6 months now and haven't had a problem. However, if it really is a concern, I would check with sales first.

I would ask your current provider just exactly what resources you're over consuming?

[eurgbp]

I found hard way you can't rely on hosting provider's virtual host
only dedicated server is a good option for massive load, expensive though, no doubt

[Nrby]

well I have a phpBB3 forum with SEO and it's killing a level 5 VPS (CPU 2.68 GHZ RAM 1824 MB) ... my biggest problem is the CPU load ... not sure how big the board is Total posts 189350 | Total topics 15831 | Total members 6043 | Most users ever online was 404 ... an average of around 200-250 users (registered and gussets included) online

[cbcrs]

Enable debug in config.php you got something like this:

Time : 0.047s | 21 Queries | GZIP : On | Memory Usage: 2.16 MiB | Explain

click on explain and post here, something really is not optimized or not use cache.

I am running a phpbb3 forum with much modifications on level 3.

Forum statistic:

Total posts 480450 active, ~500000 deleted
Total topics 19059 active, ~30000 deleted
Total members 12280 active, 23000 registered
Database size ~1000MB
Average users active over the past 30 minutes 250-350

[avalanch]

You'll do fine. I have a vbulletin forum (on the hatchling plan) that averages 39018 hits per day and I used nearly 15GB bandwith last month.

My forum traffic peaked in march where it received 110600 hits per day! And it did just fine, no issues with administration or anything.

The two things to look out for on shared hosting is
*High cpu load
*High Memory Usage

if one of those rises to over 15 percent at any time, then its time to upgrade. (I believe you recieve a warning if either of those reach 25 percent for 90+ seconds)

Originally Posted by rickdl

I currently run a PHPBB Discussion forum with another host provider.

I average using about 19 Gigabytes of Bandwidth Per month
I don't use that much hard drive storage, probably less than 1 gigabyte

But I've received some warnings from my provider that I'm over-consuming the server resources. My site gets about 50,000 PAGE hits a day. I guess "visits" is something else than page hits? Visits would be a lower number but I'm not sure what it is.

The site is basically just a phpbb discussion forrum. The maximum number of "phpbb visitors" on my phpbb forum I've ever had was 43. That doesn't sound like a lot too me? It averages around 25 during normal day time hours.

I never approach anywhere near my bandwidht limitations. So HostGator's "Hatchling" to me sounds like double the bandwidth and server storage than I'd ever need! It sounds perfect. But I wanted to ask if phpbb witha peak of 43 visitors would also take too much of your servers "resources" ? I don't want to move from my current host provider to you guys to only get warnings/risk-of-account suspension for the same thing?

My current host provider has suggested maybe I try a dedicated server. But for only using 19 GB of bandwidth a month do I really need to pay so much money for dedicated?
Thanks

[striddy]

Originally Posted by Rapira

I am a spammer. Please delete my posts and ban me from this forum

Another spammer.