Remotely hosted cgi site
hi,
I'm planning to launch a new remotely hosted cgi site soon and i was just wondering if anyone had run one as i am interested to know if the amount of server resources is unmanigable. The resaon is that i don't want to run into problems with hosting companies.
Thank-you
mjames posted this at 23:16 — 31st October 2001.
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Moved this to a more appropriate forum for you.
I haven't run a site like that, but would imagine that kind of site would have massive bandwidth problems, as you suspect, and especially if you get popular. That's just the nature of CGI. That's why I like PHP and MySQL.
mairving posted this at 02:13 — 1st November 2001.
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You might give some more details of what you are planning on running like no. of visitors, what kind of bandwidth. You won't be very popular with many hosts running memory/processors hogs like cgi, though.
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netcommr posted this at 19:48 — 8th November 2001.
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from personal experience...
use a *nix/apache machine
pre-compile heavily used scripts under mod-perl, use fast-cgi for others
dual processors (or more) is recommended
get as much memory (ram) as you can (1 gig min.)
many perl scripts use a lot of hard drive resources, go with scsi drives on a raid 5/50, go with smaller drives and more of them!! (1 big drive will bog the whole system down)
make sure you nic card is 100 base (bus-mastering)
depending on the number of users and output of scripts, your bandwidth can grow exponencially. You may start with a T1 and find out its used up quickly. Prepare for upgrades this area quickly. I run around 6-8 gigs a day so expect to 'pay' highly in this area.
keep your own pages fast (static) and use a minimum of server parse pages (SSI,PHP)
when you really rolling in the future, keep load balancing in mind for your scripting machines
run your DAILY BACKUPS(!!) at slowest times
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Gr8One posted this at 23:01 — 8th November 2001.
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Thanks for all the info, netcommr, i'll keep it all in mind.
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