I am shopping for a VPS right now and I think I am going to use Liquidweb. I plan on using it for approx 1k WP installs that will get 5-30 unique hits a day per site. I have heard WP is a resource hog, will 512MB RAM be enough or should I upgrade to the next package, 1024MB RAM for an extra $30/mo?
VPS requirements for 1k+ WP installs
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I don't think so. If you're going to be installing a thousand wordpress instances, it is going to hammer your RAM. On an average if each site receives 15 visits a day, you are looking at 15k visitors daily. I reckon you would be installing cPanel as well which is a major memory hog (it takes about 150-200mb itself).
You would need atleast 1GB of RAM, and maybe even that wouldn't cut it. If I were you I'd go shopping for a dedicated server instead of a VPS.
You would need atleast 1GB of RAM, and maybe even that wouldn't cut it. If I were you I'd go shopping for a dedicated server instead of a VPS.
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Wordpress for sure is a resource hog, but you can cut that down by utilising certain plugins like WP-cache, if you need I can create and message an entire list of resource saving plugins.
Regarding a suitable VPS (or for that matter, even a dedicated solution), goto Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet and check the Hosting offers section, many premium hosts including Liquidweb are members there, and PMing some of them could get you a great custom package that would suit your needs.
Before I even get into it, let me tell you. 1000 domains is a LOT! I don't mean in the terms of domains, I used to own more than them.
But when specifically bought from the point of view of setting up 1000 different blogs, this is something you will get bored of pretty quickly!
I am telling this to you, because I have been there, done that.
Also if you plan to setup autoblogs, and adsense is your main source of income then beware, I just participated in a mass autoblog thing out here & lost my adsense account. Since adsense not being my main source of income, I was OK with it. But if at all it forms a major contributing part of your internet income, then stay away, very far away from autoblogs.
However, if you have enough man power and resources to run and maintain 1k proper wordpress installations, then I'd suggest you consult a few hosts on WebHosting talk for a good offer.
P.S - I require 1.5 gigs of RAM on one of my VPSs to sustain 100 something Wordpress Blogs with 30-35 posts each. Since Cpanel and General server Applications take up a considerable part of your RAM and Wordpress has RAM as it's favorite item on the server Menu.
Cheers
Wordpress for sure is a resource hog, but you can cut that down by utilising certain plugins like WP-cache, if you need I can create and message an entire list of resource saving plugins.
Regarding a suitable VPS (or for that matter, even a dedicated solution), goto Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet and check the Hosting offers section, many premium hosts including Liquidweb are members there, and PMing some of them could get you a great custom package that would suit your needs.
Before I even get into it, let me tell you. 1000 domains is a LOT! I don't mean in the terms of domains, I used to own more than them.
But when specifically bought from the point of view of setting up 1000 different blogs, this is something you will get bored of pretty quickly!
I am telling this to you, because I have been there, done that.
Also if you plan to setup autoblogs, and adsense is your main source of income then beware, I just participated in a mass autoblog thing out here & lost my adsense account. Since adsense not being my main source of income, I was OK with it. But if at all it forms a major contributing part of your internet income, then stay away, very far away from autoblogs.
However, if you have enough man power and resources to run and maintain 1k proper wordpress installations, then I'd suggest you consult a few hosts on WebHosting talk for a good offer.
P.S - I require 1.5 gigs of RAM on one of my VPSs to sustain 100 something Wordpress Blogs with 30-35 posts each. Since Cpanel and General server Applications take up a considerable part of your RAM and Wordpress has RAM as it's favorite item on the server Menu.
Cheers
VPS won't cut it. If you want slow landing pages, then go VPS, otherwise you want a dedicated box. If I were throwing 1K WP sites up and really wanted to do it right, dedicated is the way to go. How the hell are you going to backup 1000 sites using a cheezy control panel?
Dedicated box:
CentOS
4 Gigs RAM (Min for any webserver)
80G RAID1 for OS (2 disks)
500G RAID5 for Datastore (4 Disks)
With that traffic, you should have at least 2 backup HDD's for the OS and 2 for the datastore. Have 4G replacement memory too.
You could squeeze out some more memory and use DirectAdmin instead of cPanel, I might be wrong, but I believe it uses less than 100MB of RAM.
I want to use cPanel and Fantastico just because I'm already use to and comfortable with them. I think I am just going to buy a premium VPS from Liquidweb and expand as I go. My goal with the project is to end up with ~1k installs but it will take me a few months to get to that point. cPanel/Fantastico/fully managed are huge + for me and I hear Liquidweb's support is great.
actually I ran an easy 1k installs of wp on a cheap VPS but it was modified and used one sql db and was used for blog&ping
(even did a few X,XXX on dreamhost...) just need to modify if your going to do blog&ping.. most likely that is what you are doing if your going to have 1k installs of wp
(following the guy below these installs only have tons of links, no real content generation)
(even did a few X,XXX on dreamhost...) just need to modify if your going to do blog&ping.. most likely that is what you are doing if your going to have 1k installs of wp
(following the guy below these installs only have tons of links, no real content generation)
Are we talking about WP or WPMU?
With WPMU I ran about ... 11000 blogs on a single VPS with 512 ram but it was able to burst up to 16GB, the sad part is when I was in full swing with about 100 backlinks to each it ate up all CPU on the dual core dual opteron with 16 GB RAM :<
Edit: but keep in mind these were not "normal" WP installs... Each did about 100-1000 pages of unique content a day (markov etc) - think RSSGM
With WPMU I ran about ... 11000 blogs on a single VPS with 512 ram but it was able to burst up to 16GB, the sad part is when I was in full swing with about 100 backlinks to each it ate up all CPU on the dual core dual opteron with 16 GB RAM :<
Edit: but keep in mind these were not "normal" WP installs... Each did about 100-1000 pages of unique content a day (markov etc) - think RSSGM
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Maybe - but remember with customization 1000 installs of wp can run like WPMU.. 1 DB multi-tables etc.
That can be done pretty easily. During installation... enter same Database details, but change the prefixes...
Database Host - localhost (in most cases)
Database name - cpanelusername_database name (Let this stay the same for the domains)
Database password - password (your password for the above database)
Database prefix - wp_....wp1_....wp2_....wp3_ etc. ("wp_" is the default DB prefix put in place by wordpress. Basically meaning that all your wordpress tables will be named like wp_posts, wp_comments etc. when you change the prefix, you basically create new tables like wp1_posts and wp1_comments etc. thereby allowing a new wordpress installation to setup, run and function without interfering with your existing installations)
But this may work only if you have a dedicated SQL server that handles only your SQL database, since the regular SQL account will not be capable of running multiple instances of wordpress without crashing.
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Just start out with the VPS and 512 RAM then scale as you go. It's impossible to know EXACTLY how much you are going to need until all those sites are up. ie, if the sites are mainly just text you'll need less resources than if you use a ton of images.
Btw, what the hell are you planning to do with 1k WP sites?
Btw, what the hell are you planning to do with 1k WP sites?
LMMFAO. You're such a clown dude. Go back to DP and quit acting like you know anything about hosting.
yeah thats definitely like 1000x too much. i don't know much about wordpress, but i do know that you should be using wordpress MU instead of 1000 separate installs. that way you've only got 1 database instead of 1000..
that VPS is probably fine for WPMU, and if you need more you can always upgrade - LW is a great company for that, very supportive. just slim down a WPMU install to only use what you need, and pop that sucker on the VPS. it'll be fine.
but why is it going to take you a couple months to get 1000 blogs? i hope its pretty much all automated, because if it is it shouldn't take more than a day to setup all those blogs and start posting content to them
I have considered looking into setting up MU but I'm not sure if it is good for this project. Each site will be on its own domain and there are several plugins I need to use, I haven't looked into whether or not they would be compatible with MU. I just got setup with a VPS from Liquidweb with 1gb RAM for now, I'll just get a few more VPS if I end up needing more resources.
What a cuntish thing to say. So I'm not a ghetto Hostgator junky like you, doesn't mean I don't know hosting. He said WP, not WPMU, how the fuck do you know what he's doing if he doesn't specify. He said WP, I gave him a solution. What the fuck does overkill matter anyway? If it bugs you that I have more horsepower than you'll ever need, suck a cock.
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