Web Traffic is pretty low, about 50M a day, Plus about 2G/mo for email and other traffic. I would need some sort of control panel (webmin perhaps) as well. I am thinking the 256 plan should work from a traffic perspective, but, would it be enough for the apps? On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Steve Phariss q > > looking at slicehost and a couple other hosts but I am not sure of the > size > > host I should get (or even the best company to go with). The website > runs > > OSCommerce, Wordpress, Zenphoto, IMAP, Roundcube (or other webmail) and > one > > or two various web apps for testing. She also hosts short term, low > traffic > > websites for misc uses. > > > > Any ideas on proper sizing? > > How much traffic per day does the server get? How much disk space do all > the > things installed and all the user data take up? What's the average load on > the machine? The answers to those questions will determine the size of the > host you need. I'm using the smallest slicehost available because I just > don't need that much CPU. > > FWIW, the smallest slicehost (256M/10G/150G) works reasonably well, but can > and will become unresponsive and require a manual reboot if it gets a huge > amount of traffic in a short time. I wrote a daemon that has worked very > well > at keeping a small slicehost up and responsive; > http://crow202.org/slicehostd.html > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >