Deciding on a VPS for Webhosting

Bynullsat 5th of May 2017 17:17:00Can most VPS hosts handle ~1,000 users requesting dynamically generated pages just fine?What can I expect to pay?

Depends what you mean by 1k users, 1k users per minute, per day ?

Depends which version of php you're going to use, PHP7 give great perf boost. (But i guess available RAM is more important)

You should get vultr, they still have a promo code that lets you duplicate your funds (once) so if you add $25 it'll add $50 and so on.

Plus they can handle over thousands of users at a time, if you're just using a site that's a display and no forum software or anything the $5 plan will be completely fine.

Vultr's site can be found here

And if you ever want to stop using a server you can easily disable it cause they only charge your credits hourly.

I think the user wants to setup a forum, if they plan to have a lot of users active on it at the same time. Memory is a factor as Lapin said if all the content is dynamic plus with PHP 7 there is a noticeable performance improvement, but if you start with it, you probably won't see the difference. You should try starting off with a dual core vps and 2GB of ram. If it's purely just a webserver, you should be fine, but you should also monitor its usage and see how it holds and then upgrade if need be.

ByLunaversity.xyz 🌸at 5th of May 2017 18:58:22

Vultr's site can be foundhere

Gotta love referral links. I thought your site ran on NFO? Or did you switch to a VPS on vultr?

Bykanalumaddelaat 5th of May 2017 20:26:58

Gotta love referral links. I thought your site ran on NFO? Or did you switch to a VPS on vultr?

Using NFO for space intensive shit such as my image hosting. VPS for more lightweight programs such as my communities' forums and personal website.

I love DigitalOcean. I use it for all of my projects, and they're great. They don't hold your hand, but you learn a lot about Linux by using it.

Referral Link: https://m.do.co/c/8d50fca79d02 Non Referral Link: http://digitalocean.com

ByNookyavaat 5th of May 2017 20:46:29

I love DigitalOcean. I use it for all of my projects, and they're great. They don't hold your hand, but you learn a lot about Linux by using it.

While I don't use DigitalOcean, I do love their guides. Really informative and useful.

Bykanalumaddelaat 5th of May 2017 21:04:15

While I don't use DigitalOcean, I do love their guides. Really informative and useful.

The guides are amazingly useful, and I've never had a problem with a server or anything.

Plus you don't pay until a month of usage, so it's useful if you create a droplet, and after an hour or so decide you don't wanna use it.

ByNookyavaat 5th of May 2017 20:46:29

I love DigitalOcean. I use it for all of my projects, and they're great. They don't hold your hand, but you learn a lot about Linux by using it.Referral Link: https://m.do.co/c/8d50fca79d02Non Referral Link: http://digitalocean.com

I find DO to be the more expensive than competitors. It's great if you have the $50 github credit but you can get better specs for cheaper with either vultr, linode, or something similar.

They also bill per hour, so if you use the $5/month droplet for one hour you'll get billed $007.

ByFootsiesPajamiesat 5th of May 2017 23:48:00

I find DO to be the more expensive than competitors. It's great if you have the $50 github credit but you can get better specs for cheaper with either vultr, linode, or something similar.They also bill per hour, so if you use the $5/month droplet for one hour you'll get billed $007.

Definitely see if you can get the $50 Github credit guys. You get a bunch of other cool stuff too.

https://education.github.com/pack

vultr!

How do the per hour plans work? Is it like you can just shut down the VPS, and it then it doesn't count towards usage, or when it hasn't been accessed?

Bykanalumaddelaat 6th of May 2017 03:33:36

How do the per hour plans work? Is it like you can just shut down the VPS, and it then it doesn't count towards usage, or when it hasn't been accessed?

Most charge you per hour, so if you use it for one hour, you'll get charged for one hour.

ByFootsiesPajamiesat 5th of May 2017 23:48:00

I find DO to be the more expensive than competitors. It's great if you have the $50 github credit but you can get better specs for cheaper with either vultr, linode, or something similar.They also bill per hour, so if you use the $5/month droplet for one hour you'll get billed $007.

$5.00 is their cheapest plan, and a $10.00 droplet will do you just fine.

Also heaven forbid you get billed $0.07. If you have any steady income you can afford a cheap droplet. If you can't, then don't host a server.

I just bought my first Linux server from vultr, I hope to learn what all this hype in the programming world is about

Thanks Luna however your promo link didn't give me double credits for my first $5, maybe I had to deposit more idk

ByNookyavaat 6th of May 2017 06:06:20

$5.00 is their cheapest plan, and a $10.00 droplet will do you just fine.Also heaven forbid you get billed $0.07. If you have any steady income you can afford a cheap droplet. If you can't, then don't host a server.

It's not really expensive, but in comparison to other hosts it's more expensive. For example the $5 vultr plan gives you double the ram, 5gb extra storage, same number of cores and bandwidth. Linode has double the ram and the same storage/transfer/cores. From what I have read Linode and Vultr have much better performance than DO. So you get more bang for your buck with vultr or linode. Buyvm has some killer deals to.

After researching it a bit I can agree that they appear to have better specs for the pricing, although I haven't used them so I don't know how reliable their service is, their customer service, or how the servers handle under pressure.

I may give them a try with my portfolio and see how it goes.

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Bynullsat 6th of May 2017 17:47:23

OVH provides unlimited bandwidth, right? thoughts?

Why OVH...chances are you won't even hit the quota with other hosts. If I'm reading this correctly why would you go with OVH and have a locked internet speed (100 Mbps)? I'd rather have a limit on how much I can download/upload than how fast. As long as I pay attention to the usage, I can determine whether or not to allocate more bandwidth.

Bynullsat 6th of May 2017 17:47:23

Alright, I'm deciding between OVH and Vultr now.$13/month @ OVH2x 2.4GHz vCores8 GB RAM40 GB SSDLocal RAID 10VS.$20/month @ Vultr2 CPU4GB RAM60GB SSD~3TB bandwidth

OVH provides unlimited bandwidth, right? thoughts?

Unless you have your own streaming service or download service you won't use nearly as much bandwidth as vultr will limit, or any vps host in that fact.

Also if you're just making a display website you most likely will not need 2 cores and 2gb of ram.

The $5 plan will work just fine for loading images to clients along with web pages in php7. If you want to be extra safe use the $10 plan, you won't use as much CPU as you will ram on web servers. (Unless you're running an intensive forum software)

Here's the graphs of the usage we used on the forums and main area of the site that loads for the server motds' (counting the 24 players on deathrun and 16 on ttt at the same time too and people browsing the site itself)

The only reason why the CPU usage is being used is cause of the forums, from what you told me just serving images and text and all that basic stuff you'll be completely fine on those plans I suggested up top.

Bykanalumaddelaat 6th of May 2017 03:33:36

How do the per hour plans work? Is it like you can just shut down the VPS, and it then it doesn't count towards usage, or when it hasn't been accessed?

You put credits on your account and it charges those hourly, if you try to take it down every hour with a bot or something they'll see it and suspend your account. Plus there are limitations on the amount of servers you can deploy unless you buy a license to deploy more servers.

Example: