How Big Can You Be Before you Go Dedicated ?

[DieselMinded]

Current- 277 (67 members and 210 guests)
Our Main Stats - Threads: 17,316 Posts: 229,485 Members: 6,817

Server Load Averages 1.74 2.76 2.73

Lucky the loads that low ive seen 20's and everything in between All month i cant take it anymore , Im jumping from $75/mth to $250/mth and getting a fully managed Dedicated server .

DONT SPAM MY PM BOX , i already have my host ,

Im courious HOW BIG WAS YOU WHEN YOU WENT DEDICATED?

[PremierFootball]

I had the following on my old forum:

Threads: 100k+ Posts: 300k+ Members: 7,000+

And I was on a shared host, the forum ran smooth with no problems.

I always had roughly 10-20 people online.

[DieselMinded]

Shared was 15 online at a time then My VPS was doing 30 online at a time fine but now its 70 and its struggling

[FockerFGAA]

From what I basically tell (and someone can correct me if I am wrong), but it won't really be the number of users per say, but basically from all the stuff you have on your site how much memory/cpu is going to be used at any given time by your site. I noticed your site has a lot of subforums and what looks like a decent chunk of mods. So really it depends on how much load those mods put on your site, but if you are having problems right now it may be an errant script or a mod that needs updated more than the number of users you have on your site.

[DieselMinded]

Yeah i have been looking for a mod that could be causing it but spikes are so speratic its impossible for me to find it

[ORP]

My load averages were lower than yours but my ISP allotted Kmem and other stats so that they could force me to upgrade before it normally would have been needed. It appears you got as much out of your vps as could ever be expected. You got at least 1/4 further than I did before upgrading.

[DieselMinded]

Thanks ORP that post makes me feel much better that im making the right move and stepping up now .

Who else has some input as to vps to dedicated jump and when to do it

[SEOvB]

VPS can handle like well over 100 people online at a time. I've had VPS servers handle from 150-300 users at once with no problems before.

512MB gaurenteed ram, with up to 2GB burstable and it had no problems.

[DieselMinded]

My VPS is only guaranteed 20% of the CPU power on my node and it can burst up to 96% , Maybe you were allotted more CPU %

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by DiesellMinded

Current- 277 (67 members and 210 guests)
Our Main Stats - Threads: 17,316 Posts: 229,485 Members: 6,817

Server Load Averages 1.74 2.76 2.73

Lucky the loads that low ive seen 20's and everything in between All month i cant take it anymore , Im jumping from $75/mth to $250/mth and getting a fully managed Dedicated server .

Don't forget that the server load average doesn't take into account how many CPU cores you have. If you had a load of 20 on a quad core machine, it'd be roughly equivalent to a single core machine with a load of 5