On 30 November 2012 03:46, Dan Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I'm looking into Linode. I've been recommended that once before on > this list. Does it handle traffic spikes well? Or would that trigger a CPU > alert? I've gotten those alerts before from my present hosting company and > it stresses me out. That's how I was kicked out - too many CPU alerts. My > setup at that time had no speed/cache optimization. Maybe the new Linode > setup would be so fast that traffic spikes would not be a problem. > I just don't want any kind of resource usage alerts and yes, I know once I > get more traffic like you do, I'll have to upgrade. I can even get the 1GB > Linode later. rationalwiki.org lives on some Linodes - a 4GB main server (Apache, Lucene, MySQL) and a coupla Squids in front, 1GB and 512MB - though arguably we could get by with just the 512MB. CPU and bandwidth are fine - the constraint for us is *memory*. I need to (per Tim Starling's recommendation [1]) set up the main instance as fcgid rather than libphp5, for better memory control. Though it's been ticking away mostly nicely for a while. Occasionally it gets flooded with complicated requests, the memory fills and the box falls over. tl;dr Linode ain't cheap but they're pretty good, and memory is going to be your real worry but that can be coped with. - d. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2012-October/039997.html _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
