Kimsufi for web hosting?

letbox

@itrmike said:
Elaborate, your opinions seem to be conflicting with some people on the thread and with mine as well. I run a popular vbulletin forum off a KS box and it is absolutely fine for that purpose. I could shove a few more sites on top with no problems if I wanted to but right now I have no need to do so.

I have one for personal use and his Hard drive failed!!

AThomasHowe

1e10 said: 4GB RAM 50GB Disk Space 10TB Data-transfer at 100Mb/s £8.15 monthly.

VPS Classic I/O is limited to around 11MB/s. People bitch and moan about dd porn here all the time but 11MB/s is not great for shared hosting.

J1021

AThomasHowe said: VPS Classic I/O is limited to around 11MB/s. People bitch and moan about dd porn here all the time but 11MB/s is not great for shared hosting.

I thought so. I just ran a benchmark on my classic VPS.

http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/05/29/4vR3dPmg56RMLUjM

Network I/O reports slightly faster than Disk I/O.

AThomasHowe

@1e10 it's not awful for personal use but it won't cut it for shared. On the plus side though you're limited to around 10MB/s so you should always be able to get a consistent I/O.

sc754

I host a few dynamic and static sites off mine as well as serving email. With a decent cache in place, the atom can easily handle it. However, if you don't have a php cacher or better then you might run into trouble if the page hits start going up. FYI on mine I have 32mb ram cache for each site hosted, possibly a little more for wordpress sites.

itrmike

@key900 said:
I have one for personal use and his Hard drive failed!!

Does't make it a bad server.

Maounique

itrmike said: @key900 said: I have one for personal use and his Hard drive failed!!

Does't make it a bad server.

Yeah, even expensive enterprise grade drives can fail. Anything, really, this is consumer grade hardware.

letbox

@itrmike said:

I don't just a lot of bad luck with it.

@Maounique said:
Yeah, even expensive enterprise grade drives can fail. Anything, really, this is consumer grade hardware.

Yes it can but for how long to get failed?

0xdragon

Well the drive I got in BHS was nearly a year old, which isn't too bad. No smart errors and appears to be in good shape.

rds100

If the drive has no errors, being 1 year old is not that bad at all. Actually a 1 year old drive without errors is less likely to fail than a brand new drive.

Maounique

rds100 said: Actually a 1 year old drive without errors is less likely to fail than a brand new drive.

truth hath spoken thee.

raindog308

said: I want to run a free host. I'll use VestaCP for the control panel.

On that note, what are you planning to use for customer management? (signup, accounts, ticketing, etc.) There's THT which is free...

AThomasHowe

rds100 said: If the drive has no errors, being 1 year old is not that bad at all. Actually a 1 year old drive without errors is less likely to fail than a brand new drive.

I agree/believe it, but are there any stats on that? Depends if the drive has been sitting in a desk or a box for a year or sitting idle in a machine though too.

rds100

AThomasHowe said: I agree/believe it, but are there any stats on that? Depends if the drive has been sitting in a desk or a box for a year or sitting idle in a machine though too.

Check this: http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

Of course we are talking about a HDD that has worked for a year. The "run time hours" counter of the HDD doesn't increase when it sits unpowered.

AThomasHowe

rds100 said: Of course we are talking about a HDD that has worked for a year. The "run time hours" counter of the HDD doesn't increase when it sits unpowered.

Fair play. Thanks for the link too, by the way.