daniel at nadir-seen-fire
Aug 20, 2012, 2:37 PM
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Re: To those that run your own wiki .. some help needed please!
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:56:22 -0700, Yecheondigital
<yecheondigital [at] yahoo> wrote:
> Recently I've been having server troubles lately and I wanted to see if
> anyone else was in a similar boat and how you overcame it. Because of
> these server issues, it's putting me in a difficult situation and I
> don't want to give up on a wiki I've been working on for the last 3
> years. I'm hoping to get some advice from others who run their own
> wikis, especially high traffic wikis.
>
> Background information:
> -Front page runs wordpress (http://www.koreanwikiproject.com) ---
> however not much of the traffic goes here.
> -Most of the traffic goes to the wiki on the site:
> http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki
> -I get less than 2,000 hits a day.
> -I was on the shared dreamhost plan for a few years, until dreamhost
> couldn't handle the wiki anymore. Lots of time outs and processes
> getting killed for exceeding my shared memory capacity recently.
> -In the last week I switched to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) on
> dreamhost (two VPS actually: one is a regular VPS, the other is for
> mysql).-For the first week dreamhost gives you 2300mbs of memory to work
> with to gauge how much you need exactly. I turned on php caching using
> Xcache and this helped performance a lot. Memory usage is usually under
> 400 mbs, but I get these huge spikes sometimes (even exceeded the 2300
> mbs given initially). Here is an image of my memory usage (does it every
> 20 mins I believe):
> http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/Memory_usage_aug19.png
> -The problem is the way dreamhost handles alloted memory over usage: It
> reboots the server. I don't understand why they do this, but they
> explained it was to protect the physical memory. This is annoying
> because anyone downloading anything on the server gets their connection
> severed and the site goes down for a short time. In fact I don't see
> this happening much to other websites.
>
> I know some of you guys who get a lot more than 2,000 hits and even have
> semantic wiki installed and still have done fine. Meanwhile, I'm not
> sure I want to pay $36 a month for 2 VPS servers (One is a regular VPS,
> the other is for mysql) that is going to have it's connection severed
> several times a day due to memory spikes. At the same time I don't want
> to give up on a wiki I've been working on the past 3 years, so surely
> there must be a better way than me having to pay $100 a month for my own
> server, especially when my traffic isn't that high. Some advice from
> others who run wiki sites would be really appreciated and even
> comparisons on what you guys are running with the amount of traffic you
> get if possible.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
A lot of us just run with a small single VPS/Cloud server like on Linode
or Rackspace cloud.
It's not the best performing sometimes. But the traffic weight and cost of
a single small wiki doesn't really justify running two servers.
You kind of need to be running multiple wikis (or one insanely large one)
to justify the server separation.
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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