When did you get a dedicated server?

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When did you get a dedicated server?

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universetoday

10:48 pm on Sep 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

At what point did you move away from a shared server environment and spend the money on a dedicated server? My traffic levels aren't too large - 10,000 pageviews/day or about 20 GB/month - but I've got a 15,000 person newsletter that really gums up the system.

When did you finally take the plunge?

Zaphod Beeblebrox

10:49 am on Sep 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

About a year ago. Not much traffic, but I could buy a 1.4 GHz, 512 MB for EUR 400, so I figured 'why not?'.

bonanza

1:15 am on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

It's true that you can get a dedicated server for short money these days.

If you plan to grow, do it before you're forced to do it in a hurry.

Execute a well planned transition over a few months so you won't lose any visitors, human or spider.

buckworks

1:24 am on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I got my own server about a year ago. I love the freedom! A friend set it up and looks after the techie end of things, in exchange for part of the space.

It's saving me money these days, compared to what it would cost to run as many domains at my old host.

rmjvol

3:07 am on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

All those domains using a shared ip or are they using unique ones?

rmjvol

buckworks

3:34 am on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

A handful of major domains have unique IP's; the rest share an IP. I could have more IP's if I wanted to pay for them, but I've never felt the need.

I tend to use my keyword-phrase.com sites for PFI or PPC advertising rather than working to build free traffic, so there's little temptation for the kind of cross-linking that might trigger problems. My friend takes a similar approach on his half of the server.

Zaphod Beeblebrox

10:03 am on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

A shared IP, and it seems to be no problem for googlebot and his eight-legged buddies.

BwanaZulia

5:21 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I went to a dedicated server (rhymes with Back Case) about two and a half years ago. Before that we hosted everything out of my friends closet on a SDSL line.

Now we run a 1.8Ghz Ath, 1.5 GB ram, 2 x 36 GB SCSI and a 60 GB EIDE drive as storage. Of all our sites, we get over 100,000 hits a day running a mixture of Apache and Zope but it also runs Qmail, logs, etc.

From all the benchmarking I can see, this server will be able to grow ot over 1,000,000 a day with no problems.