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varnish
nginx or lighttpd? (I prefer lighttpd)
Or just skip it and use an Object Store eg http://www.delimiter.com/landingpage/objspace/
Then you just have to upload your images and all the serving is handled for you.
Time4VPS Storage servers have crippled IOPS/performance which makes them unsuitable for anything other cold backups.
We have 4 TB Bandwidth, so Object Store don't really cost that cheap.
Calculate the IOPS vs included data transfer. A storage VPS is designed for storage, not for running active services.
You're performance is going to be horrendous.
what will be storage and bandwidth need for your VPS
I've been using http://www.fefe.de/gatling/ for static content recently. Stupidly low overhead.
You don't mention redundancy on your object storage, 'Amazon S3 is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities'. Whats delimiters story on object storage durability?
Triple replication in the same facility, distinct by rack zone (ie not in the same row) / network / power
Object storage is not cheap if you have cheap, big enough storage server.
I considered using b2 storage and delimiter but dedibox was cheaper. (4TB :: $20/m )
Currently using nginx w no issues.
Hiawatha
What will the traffic of your storage servers be? Some dozens of image recalls per hour or thousands per minute? If this is a low traffic site, then, probably time4vps storage plans will fit your needs. If there is actual traffic, then, a cheap storage server with limited IOPS not only will lead to an unusable service, but probably also to a suspended service from the provider (have to mention that their storage server use raid6, so, if used to a high traffic live site, the performance will suffer even more). And by calling that the traffic will be ~4TB, then, you are talking for a high traffic site.
You haven't told us what capacity you want. 500GB? 1TB? 2TB? Best solution is to grab a cheap server ~20$ (there are a lot of options with dual 1TB HDD), setup varnish and use time4vps storage for backing up your images, if you need an online backup (and you should need it).
Equal bandwidth for storage is a terrible equalization. 500GB storage with 500GB bandwidth means that the first month all you can do is upload your files without traffic at all. Yes, it is cheaper than amazon glacier or google's services, but again, it is not cheap at all...
Lighttpd with http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Docs_ModMemCache
Set local cache expiry headers also. If you want to go all out don't use lighttpd caching, but use something like Squid or Varnish as a front end.
Product images in 4 sizes
E-com site, with 7000 users per day
Now we use 55Gb for images
We have OVH server right now, but I want to migrate images to different server, coz price is going up every months for storage.
If you just use 55GB I think you're better off with something else - you don't need that much storage as Time4VPS offers and you will have better IOPS.
Looking at CDN's for images right now.
How many hits per second? Honestly you should be fine with just lighttpd or nginx.
And like @traffic says you might be better off with someone who provides less storage space but uses SSDs
Delimiter kvm vps comes with 250 Gigs of fast storage. The dedicated core should be enough for the site, if optimized properly. Try to pm @mikeyur, he will reply, hopefully.
Missed this message the other day. I agree that the equal bandwidth to storage is a bit whacky. I'll be reworking the plans and apply the traffic boosts to old plans retroactively when we do. Also: inbound is completely free, so you wouldn't use up all the bandwidth by filling it.
Appreciate the mention, but I think OP said they needed 4TB bandwidth. I'm re-working the plans and will be balancing them out a bit more as we start thinking about additional locations.