Mutt
Well-known member
1/2 a year ago I posted here asking about hosts but since I wasn't ready to switch to Xenforo yet I put it all on hold. Now that 1.1 beta is out, I can finally make the move. It's got what I wanted & I'm excited to finally have it. Problem is, i have no idea what kind of server setup I require let alone where I should go. my site is large & currently runs lousy. It's a heavily modified vb3.8 that's probably codded horribly (by me) and inefficient. it's possible that if I had a clean vb install it would run fine but who really knows. The DB is 10GB. Traffic is down but it's still a lot. For the past 6 months we've been averaging 800k Visits from 300k Unique Visitors creating 6.9 mil Pageviews per month. (according to google analytics)
many years ago I grabbed these 3 boxes & cavecreek (CCBill) has been hosting them.
- WEB SERVER - 4GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz Dual Core, 73 GB SCSI
- DB SERVER - 4GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz Dual Core, 73GB SCSI
- SLAVE DB SERVER - 8GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz Dual Core, 73GB SCSI
their main advice to me to get things running better has been to upgrade to the newer code & not hack the **** out of it. before I go upgrading the Xen let me ask, should I change hosts, upgrade servers, what os / software is best for me, etc. I'd love to just move & start over fresh somewhere w/ a pretty new Xenforo board.
PS - how realistic is it to import / convert a 10GB VB DB to Xen?
many years ago I grabbed these 3 boxes & cavecreek (CCBill) has been hosting them.
- WEB SERVER - 4GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz Dual Core, 73 GB SCSI
- DB SERVER - 4GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz Dual Core, 73GB SCSI
- SLAVE DB SERVER - 8GB RAM, 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz Dual Core, 73GB SCSI
their main advice to me to get things running better has been to upgrade to the newer code & not hack the **** out of it. before I go upgrading the Xen let me ask, should I change hosts, upgrade servers, what os / software is best for me, etc. I'd love to just move & start over fresh somewhere w/ a pretty new Xenforo board.
PS - how realistic is it to import / convert a 10GB VB DB to Xen?