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I've had a normal server for almost a year now, but my sites are getting slow...
What should I do, my options are:
Upgrade to 20mbps server. Probably cheaper.
Buy a new server and do the load balancing thing between them.
Whatever happens, I'm getting my server from http://www.servermatrix.com to save hassle.
What is your current server? Do you know what the problem is? Its it cpu, memory, mysql, bandwidth or something else that is not coping? There could be a lot of reasons, if its simply bandwidth upgrading your pipe is the answer but if its not enough mem or drive space it would make no difference.
You need to figure out what's causing the bottleneck and slowing down your sites. You may be able to avoid the expense of a new server.
For instance: If it's too much memory usage but your cpu usage is ok, you could probably get by with a memory upgrade. If you have a 10 mbps port and you're maxing it out but your server load is still relatively low, you might be able to get by with upgrading to a 100 mbps port. Do you have any idea of what's causing the bottleneck?
Xander, I guess great minds think alike! :)
Server Load 1.13 (1 cpu) RED LIGHT
Memory Used 42.3 % GREEN LIGHT
2.40GHz is my processor speed. It's a celeron.
Sounds like you either need to do some optimization or get a faster server. What does the "top" command show you for cpu usage during times when your server's running slowly?
If you're hosting a number of MySQL-based sites, I'd jump to a Pentium machine just for a little more oomph. But make sure, either way, your apache, php and mysql are optimised.
get some super-cluster or something... At the minimum use an OS like RHEL, if you are not already.
i dislike the 20mbs server.... the network is slow at times... pretty frustrating..
20mb/s will help you zero.
Move up to a Dual Xeon and work on optimizing things. If you have the CPU power to give then turn on mod_gzip, your PHP pages will load faster.
Yeah defintely sounds like a CPU upgrade(atleast a pentium or dual celeron).
What is the difference between a pentium and a celeron of the same speed apart from price?
Pentium has more on-chip cache for a start (1Mb instead of 256Kb?). Means it spends less time waiting to access memory when it can get data from cache. I wouldnt think a celeron would make a good server? Chips designed for server use tend to have even more cache than a standard pentium dont they? So cache is probably important in a server application...
To translate what r2 said, basically if you have a Pentium 4 and a Celeron of the same speed the Pentium will be faster. :)