Mutt
Well-known member
I'd really like some server / host advice. I'm upgrading my vb3.8 apache site to xenforo & while I'm at it i'm thinking I should change hosts too. I'm unhappy w/ how my site ****s the bed around midnight each night when we bump over 1000 users online. considering I have a web server, DB server, & a slave server i expected more. don't know if it's what the host has recommended or my scripts or my DB size but I want a fresh start. right now I average around 9 million page views / month but if we were runnin smooth & not crashing / slowing to a crawl who knows what it really would be. i'm tired of not being able to get on my own site.
is there a place here on xenforo forums that lists recommended sever specs? I need to figure out what to buy (rent I mean) & where to go. I'll be running xenforo, the sphinx search addon sounds cool, and i'm interested in nginx but I have no experience w/ any of it.
it's been years since I've shopped for a host / server & considering how bad my site runs now, I don't trust myself figuring it out. I need some expert advice. I want this thing done right.
thanks in advance.
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on a side note, i have 20 million posts & most are old crap. we see a tremendous amount of search engine traffic & worry that pruning all that old garbage will cause us to lose a lot of that traffic. anyone have an opinion on how to handle that? I have over 200k members but most are dead / abandoned. I'll prune those before the move.
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While looking here for sever / host information I found this post pointing out some top hosts.
and this interesting post recommending the nginx over apache
is there a place here on xenforo forums that lists recommended sever specs? I need to figure out what to buy (rent I mean) & where to go. I'll be running xenforo, the sphinx search addon sounds cool, and i'm interested in nginx but I have no experience w/ any of it.
it's been years since I've shopped for a host / server & considering how bad my site runs now, I don't trust myself figuring it out. I need some expert advice. I want this thing done right.
thanks in advance.
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on a side note, i have 20 million posts & most are old crap. we see a tremendous amount of search engine traffic & worry that pruning all that old garbage will cause us to lose a lot of that traffic. anyone have an opinion on how to handle that? I have over 200k members but most are dead / abandoned. I'll prune those before the move.
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While looking here for sever / host information I found this post pointing out some top hosts.
Out of 515 English speaking forums in the top 50,000 sites on the internet; this is what hosts I have noticed the most.
thePlanet
Rackspace
Softlayer
Liquidweb
and this interesting post recommending the nginx over apache
We have hosted our site on Liquidweb VPS for the past few years and have moved to Rackspace Cloudserver a week ago. Much more room to grow now and the move away from Apache to nginx has made a noticeable speed improvement.