Could a VPS with 370mb ram handle 47K ine one day?

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Posted by solid_nuts, 09-17-2008, 06:13 AM
I know there isn't going to be one set answer to this but roughly, how much traffic would you expect a VPS with370mb ram and 1 wordpress blog to handle? the sever is running on (Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2214 HE/equal share so what would you expect? I'm asking this because i have a friend who's using MT $20 plan has managed 47k visitis in 24h without going down.. My site gets 15k and hardly makes it. so how much traffic would you guys expect from a vps with 370mb ? Last edited by solid_nuts; 09-17-2008 at 06:24 AM.
Posted by clickitservices, 09-17-2008, 06:15 AM
hi i doubt 47k unless its a small site with not much content. If you have allot of content/modules then the memory is gonna be high ie MySQL will be very active again using more and more memory.
Posted by EasycPanelXL, 09-17-2008, 05:58 PM
Just to run anti-virus on a cpanel server requires around 100 MB of ram alone, I would look for 1 GB ram to be on the safe side.
Posted by EasycPanelXL, 09-17-2008, 06:32 PM
Just to run anti-virus on a cpanel server requires around 100 MB of ram alone, It's very hard to say how much tarffic will this many MB handel. It all depends on what you are hosting. sorry about the double post was done by mistake
Posted by Hannan, 09-17-2008, 06:51 PM
No, I don't think! I think you need at least 1GB VPS!
Posted by Steven, 09-18-2008, 01:25 AM
Correctly configured you can do it without problems.
Posted by cabron, 09-19-2008, 06:40 PM
Try installing wpcache as that will lower the usage a lot. Still you are quite short on ram if you want to run a control panel on it.
Posted by CoderJosh, 09-20-2008, 01:13 AM
WordPress runs fine on a small VPS. How much traffic you can handle depends on the caching you have in place. I'd recommend WP SuperCache, after installing this plugin most requests will actually be handled like requests for static pages by the web server. So it reduces the CPU and DB load significantly. I'd say that's the most important part of optimizing WordPress, as you will see the biggest improvement. You should also consider stripping down Apache (usually quite many modules you don't need get loaded automatically, thus increasing the memory footprint) and tuning MySQL (especially the cache parameters and connection limits).
Posted by DigitalLinx, 09-20-2008, 11:59 AM
I recommend lighttpd instead of apache, uses much less memory but also renders .htaccess files useless so you'd need to configure your vhost with proper rewrite rules since in some cases WP needs them.
Posted by camosawus, 09-24-2008, 09:06 PM
id be upping the ram just for peice of mind
Posted by Hannan, 09-25-2008, 05:26 AM
I don't think it is possible!!
Posted by Private Label, 09-25-2008, 05:29 AM
I don't know how you do it but I try once to put a vBulletin forum with <= 5K visitor aday on 1GB VPS from modVPS and it could not handle it. If you wonder it was one website with one script (vBulletin Forum) with the common vb plugins/products and no thing more than that but mkPortal as home page interface. I never found a VPS can handle more that 10K visit aday even from LiquidWeb big VPS with 1GB ram. Now I'm using only dedicated servers which cost me about $150 each to handle 3 to 5 websites with forums like the one above, Is there any one here can handle more than total of 15K visit aday forums ? I'm talking about mid-size servers such as dual xion w/HT or single cpu of Core2Duo or Core2Quad, 1 or 2mb RAM at least with sata or scsi drives.
Posted by power1, 09-25-2008, 12:08 PM
i think you need min 1GB DDR2 Ram to handle the data in/out as mysql and apache will require alot of ram usage
Posted by Jumba, 09-29-2008, 09:50 PM
370mb probably won't be enough, but 1 GB is to much, just go for about 512mb with lighttpd and mysql, ofcourse you'd have to modify the mysql settings a bit, but I suppose you could find some tut's online. But ofcourse if you have the money go for 1 GB.