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dfitterer
08-15-2005, 05:37 AM
I'm interested in a VPS for my shareware site. If I host the shareware download on a PowerVPS, how many simultaneous downloads can take place? I'm sure it would usually meet my needs, but I'm wondering how it will handle peak load when there's a link on slashdot.
elix
08-15-2005, 08:17 AM
If you tweak the httpd.conf around a bit you should be able to handle a lot. I'm not sure of actual figures, though.

Best,

elix
Robert
08-15-2005, 11:22 AM
Honestly there is no exact answer. It depends what other tasks are running at the time (such as mail, logging, service status checking, etc. If you don't have a control panel, you'll have much less overhead from it as well.

I've seen someone push over 400 gigs in a day from his VPS.... (it was not supposed to as there was a case of leaching involved, but ya get the idea, lol).

It's POSSIBLE for anything depending on how your server is configured.
elix
08-15-2005, 12:43 PM
btw, if you want less overhead, go for a lightish control panel such as DirectAdmin.

Best,

elix
dfitterer
08-15-2005, 03:08 PM
I was thinking that the bandwidth to the server would be the bottleneck. Does it actually take a lot of server system resources to kick out file downloads? Is it usually bound by hard drive access, CPU, or RAM?
elix
08-15-2005, 04:41 PM
I was thinking that the bandwidth to the server would be the bottleneck. Does it actually take a lot of server system resources to kick out file downloads? Is it usually bound by hard drive access, CPU, or RAM?
If you have a lot of people downloading at once then RAM and bandwidth are the only bottlenecks. However, you will probably run out of bandwidth before RAM. But, the special where you get 100GB extra should help you out with that :)

Best,

elix
Hvu
08-16-2005, 03:21 AM
Depends on your file download, you can use boa, or lighttpd or thttpd for your download needs they are lightweight and used by many users for download servers. Like elix said u will run out of bandwidth before ram.
charles
08-17-2005, 12:46 AM
To be clear, you will run out of allocated bandwidth, but we do not cap your use. You will be responsible for overage charges if you go over.

charles
vps-vince
08-17-2005, 08:19 PM
Can you cap mine if I ask for it?
Heard some horror stories. :eek:

- Vince
elix
08-17-2005, 08:49 PM
Can you cap mine if I ask for it?
Heard some horror stories. :eek:

- Vince
Long as you check the VZPP often, all should be well :)
charles
08-18-2005, 02:23 PM
Can you cap mine if I ask for it?
Heard some horror stories. :eek:

- Vince

No sorry. You can do some throttling within your vps, but it varies greatly per panel.

charles
vps-vince
08-18-2005, 03:27 PM
No sorry. You can do some throttling within your vps, but it varies greatly per panel.


Must admit I'm very suprised that Virtuozo VPS software hasn't got a solution for this.

What can be done via WHM/cPanel ?

- Vince
elix
08-18-2005, 04:11 PM
Isn't there something called traffic shaping?
vps-vince
08-18-2005, 05:16 PM
Isn't there something called traffic shaping?

Is that within WHM or Virtuozo PP?
elix
08-18-2005, 05:29 PM
Is that within WHM or Virtuozo PP?
I believe it's something that Charles can set, I'm probably wrong tho.
DMHosts
08-18-2005, 06:12 PM
What about mod_throttle? or mod_bandwidth?
charles
08-19-2005, 02:07 AM
We cannot throttle bandwidth on a per vps basis. Mod_throttle works on apache 1.x
vps-vince
08-19-2005, 05:13 PM
OK, so what about all our user/client accounts. Can they be limited via cPanel/WHM?

And by default, they all get an e-mail when their usage goes over 80% right? Do we get a copy of that message?

Thanks,

- Vince
Robert
08-19-2005, 05:18 PM
With CPanel, you do get a message as well I believe. (At least I do with my own personal servers with non-personal sites on them.)

The best thing I can suggest for now is occasionally checking the PowerPanel to see your bandwidth useage. We've been very reasonable with folks in the past regarding extreme situations. If you have a special case, contact support and ask the ticket to be escallated and Tom, Charles, or I will make a judgement call on it should a situation arise.

Honestly bandwidth overages are one of the fewest problems we see from folks. If you see yourself coming close to the limit, you can either purchase more bandwidth at a special rate:

# 10GB bandwidth pre-purchased is $8.00 per month
# 25GB extra bandwidth pre-purchased is $19.99 per month
# 50GB extra bandwidth pre-purchased is $35.99 per month

(The above info is found on each of our pages that offer service with how much "extras" cost.)

Hope that helps.
ozgreg
08-20-2005, 09:21 AM
or signup now and get an additional 100MB a month free (it is a special) but putting that one side, throttling in Apache would be your next best bet.

If you are using cpanel, then this is built in..
PvUtrix
08-22-2005, 04:09 PM
or signup now and get an additional 100MB a month free (it is a special)
100GB
http://www.powervps.com/current-vps-sale.php