performance professional

[CFCnet]

Hi guys

I have a site that averages around 150 at anytime, maybe 300 twice a week for around 45mins at a time.

My host keeps telling me that i need a performance professional because the site keeps going down. I have cpanel etc and optimise and repair the tables almost daily it seems.

I have gone from server 1 to 3 and now 4 of these specs https://www.siteground.com/cloud-hosting.htm

What could a performance professional do additionally to my forum.

http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk

[Ae9803]

Hmm, i never had cloud hosting before wish I could help

[maddog107_merged]

Do you have SSH access? Can you change the httpd.conf and my.cnf files?

[mikaweb™]

I have the same problem as yours. I also have a football fans forum.

Best we can do is going the VPS way I guess.

[Codehusker]

Well I'm an Arsenal fan so this is awkward, but...

There are a lot of different options that might work. Some might be simple (such as disabling certain features), while others are fairly complex (like installing an alternate web server). With the right combination of tweaks, IPB can be pretty efficient. I've found that nginx, php-fpm with apc, mariadb, and sphinx provides a very stable, fast, and lightweight setup. I believe this can all be done on your cPanel server.

Is your main site hosted on the same server? I see it's powered by WordPress. The above software stack works great with WordPress as well, and any changes/optimizations made should take both apps into consideration.

I think overall your community would be better served by switching to a dedicated server with a different host. You can get 8x2.5GHz CPU, 16GB of memory, 1TB of redundant disk space, and 10TB of bandwidth for easily less than $100, usually around $60. You can use some of the saved money to pay someone to manage the server. Hiring a server manager would also mean you can get rid of cPanel, which saves the license fee as well as removes a big memory hog from your server.

On an aside, I don't want to bash your current host, but it appears your website is hosted in San Jose, CA, USA. Their website says your site should be hosted in Chicago, Amsterdam, or Singapore, but when I traceroute to your server it takes my traffic to San Jose. That's not right. If your users are mostly from the UK (taking a guess), then your server should be located closer to there. Certainly not across an ocean and then another continent. A server on the east coast of the US would be much better, and cheaper than most server deals I see in Europe.

[IveLeft...]

Hi guys

I have a site that averages around 150 at anytime, maybe 300 twice a week for around 45mins at a time.

My host keeps telling me that i need a performance professional because the site keeps going down. I have cpanel etc and optimise and repair the tables almost daily it seems.

I have gone from server 1 to 3 and now 4 of these specs https://www.siteground.com/cloud-hosting.htm

What could a performance professional do additionally to my forum.

http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk

I have sent you a couple of PM's