Switching plans/buying disk space

Guest

Hi folks,

Martin@FNL (Disco3.co.uk etc) has suggested that I talk to you guys about hosting.

Warning: I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to look after myself, and run two websites at the moment:

A business site: http://www.speedview.co
(WordPress + MyBB, UK traffic at the moment and only on .co because there's a squatter on .co.uk/.com)

A family/personal site: www.cosic.org.uk
(we use this as a photobucket/dropbox for posting images on forums/sharing files than a website website)

Dreamhost says:
250Mb disk/10 Gb bandwidth on the business one
15 Gb disk/10 Gb bandwidth on the personal one

They're both with 123-reg for domains and a shared server on DreamHost at the moment, mostly because that's what the chap who set them up for me in 2006 used at the time and it hadn't gone wrong up until now.

It is adequate for sharing all the images or static content that you like, but not good once it needs CPU/Memory it seems. The first Google crawl killed it and when I asked Dreamhost they said that the server robot kills your site if it uses >16 Mb RAM. So I can post as many images on as many forums as I like, but if too many people click through to my WordPress/MyBB site it falls over. Looking at the offerings, I think I'd like to transfer the business site across.

Questions:

Can I disable the thing that disables image hotlinking/track where they are going?

Commercially I'd like the (watermarked/with web link) images to be spammed as widely as possible across various car forums and bandwidth seems fairly cheap as advertising goes.

Will I hit any CPU/memory limits on a shared host?

I use hypercache on the WordPress site, and the MyBB forum is lightly trafficed. (by that point the customer has probably already made the buy decision and is just after detail images of their vehicle) I need to keep it as a forum because the customers upload their own 'How To' guides and they're used to the BBcode. I have no idea how to check what CPU/memory I am using by the way - installing the

Can I add bandwidth as needed?

If I switch just the business site I'd start on the 'Power Plan' for 20Gb bandwidth. Can I switch to 'Premier Plan' at a later date without changing anything technical? If bandwidth hits 50Gb, can I buy more without doing anything technical/going VPS route etc?

What is the likely cost? I see £2/Gb/month on the reseller page - is that the 'typical rate' or a 'penalty/emergency rate' for bandwidth? (£12/mo for the first 50 Gb then £2 for each 1 Gb thereafter?)

Thanks,

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Marko

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Marko,

Thanks for your interest in NetHosted!

I will answer these questions based on your business hosting requirements.

Guest

Thanks Andrew.

Dreamhost's procwatch killed my site again this evening so I think it's time for a move.

I would like to double-check the memory before I go through the faff of moving though. (I'd turn a striking shade of red if I found it was more of a website problem than a server problem)

According to the reports in the admin panels, my WordPress uses ~22 to 28 Mb and the MyBB uses ~5 to 8Mb. I can understand not wanting to state a hard limit, but is this fairly standard/are we in about the right ballpark for a shared server? If it were to double, would it be a problem?

Here's the support request I posted over there:

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-134302.html

Do you think they killing the site at 32 Mb when their server is busy but letting it run over when the server isn't busy?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Marko,

PHP's memory limit is set to 128MB. We monitor the server closely to make sure no one script is causing issues for the server. If your script or site do cause issues we will notify you.

I can't honestly comment on what another host's policies are, you would have to seek help from them for this.

Thanks,

Andrew

Guest

Dreamhost responded with "buy our VPS package to run a WordPress site" so I bought a nethosted Power Plan + Power Pack package.

Reading around, one suggestion over on Dreamhost is running different 'PHP things' as different subdomains. (and users)

Don't do http://www.domain.com/images/ for images to share, http://www.domain.com/wordpress/ for wordpress and http://www.domain.com/forum/ for forum, all run under 'user'

Instead, set the site up as http://www.images.domain.com/images/ on user 'images' then http://www.wordpress.domain.com/wordpress/ on user 'wordpress' and http://www.forum.domain.com/forum/ on user 'forum'

Each subdomain/user gets their own procwatch, and one part being killed (for any reason, not just memory) won't kill the others.

Is this the same at nethosted? I'm going to transfer domains today/tomorrow, but wanted to check how best to structure it before I move them over.

Thanks,

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Marko

NetHosted Staff Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 1019

Marko,

I can't honestly see a WordPress site causing any issues like that, I've never experienced one using significant amounts of memory or resources unless it's either been badly configured or running a plugin that is incorrectly or very poorly coded, and this is rare in itself.

We don't operate PHP in the same way so there would be no need to use subdomains like this, as Andrew stated previously our memory limits are much higher, you shouldn't experience any issues.

Regards,

Darryl

NetHosted Customer Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

I'll switch it and see what resources it uses.

Have I broken my account already? As of 18:00 I haven't been able to access cPanel or FTP on Venus... (connections time out before I get a chance to login)

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

Your IP address was blocked on Venus due to multiple failed SSH login attempts. We do not allow SSH logins on our shared/reseller plans.

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

Sorry about that guys. I thought that SFTP was secure FTP all these years.

Now using that FileZilla and all is working well. I've got a question on the migration/MySQL that I'll start a new thread for.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Marko,

Ah no problem, you can connect via sFTP but we recommend secure FTP via TLS instead.

Thanks,

Andrew

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