How reasonable is CPU: 25% , MEM: 2G, Concurrent Connections: 20

[ee_joseph]

Once more, How reasonable is CPU: 25% , MEM: 2G, Concurrent Connections: 20 for IPB?

[Mack_au]

Depends on how many users.

My own site started off with shared hosting very similar to yours.

We crashed the site on a day we had about 600+ people turn up the site. Ended up having to take it offline, allow access to existing members only before it'd come back up.

We've since upgraded to a new service, with 100% of a 4 core CPU, 4GB of Memory and 60 connections.

We had another spike a few days ago of roughly similar proportions, and the new service handed it well.

I've found it's CPU that's the issue to start with. Memory needs probably come with a bigger database.

[Brett L]

What is your hardware configuration. "CPU: 25%" isn't exactly descriptive enough as 25% on a core 2 duo is WAY different then 25% on a server grade xeon.