High Traffic Sites?

[vonbrocklin]

I have a client who wants to move a high traffic site over to Matrix. For December, the site had:

173280 page views
54769 unique sessions
10GB data transfer

It is a data driven site running ASP and SQL2000, so it is processor intensive. Does anybody else host any similar sites on the Matrix shared servers? The site is currently on a shared server, but with only 10 clients per box. (And they pay out the nose for it too.) If this traffic and data access is too much for the Matrix servers to handle I would like to know ahead of time. It would be by FAR the most resource intensive site I have moved to Matrix so far so I would like to know if others are hosting similar sites. Also curious about Matrixes thoughts on this type of site.

[somereseller]

Will all recent discussion about the stability of Hsphere, I'm surprised that you want to move that site over. Looks like this site needs high availability which the win2k/Hsphere combo does not reach yet.

No?

[vonbrocklin]

I guess that's why I asked if anybody else is running any similar sites, or if admin thinks their set-up could handle the load. My gut feeling was no, but thought I would ask about others experience. It's not like I don't have the bandwidth available under my plan, or am lacking in storage space. Still waiting to hear from admin on this...

[ramjet]

well their acceptable use policy does say to ask.
sorry my sites have 1 hit per month, so i can't really say.

[Garreg]

Perhaps not 'quite' as much as you where asking, but it may give you an idea - I've two sites that knock out -

Monthly Statistics for January 2003

Total Hits 148289
Total Files 46675
Total Pages 3312
Total Visits 692
Total KBytes 332640

Total Unique Sites 583
Total Unique URLs 323
Total Unique Referrers 91
Total Unique User Agents 90

Hits per Hour 3655
Hits per Day 22982
Files per Day 9108
Pages per Day 505
Visits per Day 92
KBytes per Day 50386


Site 2:

Total Hits 331813
Total Files 153018
Total Pages 17163
Total Visits 1998
Total KBytes 1150247

Total Unique Sites 1348
Total Unique URLs 989
Total Unique Referrers 274
Total Unique User Agents 292

Hits per Hour 7004
Hits per Day 28972
Files per Day 17227
Pages per Day 960
Visits per Day 95
KBytes per Day 69855

Both run without any problems.

[admin]

vonbrocklin,

Its not really how many hits the site gets to use as you get the bandwidth that is needed. What we care about is how hard the site may hit on CPU or Mem. If the site is coded good then you should be ok, if the code is sloppy and uses a lot of CPU we could have some issues..

[vonbrocklin]

Well, I didn't code it so I can't say how well it was done. But I do know that it is quite heavy on the SQL queries. I doubt I am going to take the risk on this site, but in general: If people DO move over sites that cause problems, do you give fair warning (2-3 days) to find it a new home before you shut the site down?

I have some other high-traffic client sites I would eventually like to move, but not if there is a risk of getting shut down. Too bad there is not any reliable way to benchmark a site BEFORE it gets moved over to a new shared environment.