How to know what VPS/DS to get?

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As the title suggest, how do you know which server/VPS to pick to host your website?

For example, if a site receives 500k-1m monthly users on average. What kind of server would be able to properly handle such traffic without page-speed issues?
 
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What's your hosting budget?
have seen pretty good vps solutions at Profvds.com - try to contact them telling your requirements and see what they can offer you.
 
LiteSpeed or Nginx + good dedicated server through Europe or US + Cloudflare works.
In last case Openlitespeed which is free like Nginx, but limited.

It is easy.
 
Lowk3y said:
LiteSpeed or Nginx + good dedicated server through Europe or US + Cloudflare works.
In last case Openlitespeed which is free like Nginx, but limited.

It is easy.
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How does cloudflare improve performance?

In my current case, my servers resources get eated up by mysql, a 4 core cpu is barely handling it. Memory not a problem. Site has litespeed, also using wp litespeed cache
 
RoiBox said:
Cloudflare or any CDN offload your server load by caching your files near the visitor by as much as 98-99% seen on my own sites.
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How do I fully utilize this?

Do I just setup DNS records on CF nameservers and just point my domain to it? Is that all there is to it?

Perhaps you could guide me to the right direction by pointing me to a youtube tutorial? I would really appreciate it.
 
I'd suggest to choose a VPS provider like i.e. Hetzner, monitor the performance and upscale / downscale accordingly.

If you are targeting EU markets, avoid Cloudflare by all means. The service is not GDPR-compliant and you are loosing lots of potential traffic.
 
Fiducia said:
I'd suggest to choose a VPS provider like i.e. Hetzner, monitor the performance and upscale / downscale accordingly.

If you are targeting EU markets, avoid Cloudflare by all means. The service is not GDPR-compliant and you are loosing lots of potential traffic.
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Funny, I would assume the opposite as cloudflare is advertised as privacy first.
 
Static or Dynamic? Ecommerce or blog? If you are running mostly static site or wordpress blog just use Openlitespeed + Cloudflare with full page caching. This will offload your entire site to cloudflare and you'll basically have very little traffic thats not served at the edge. You can also use Openlitespeeds' CDN for faster serving but not quite free, but neither is cloudflares paid tier which you'd probably want. Anyway see below for some options.
 
velinxs said:
Static or Dynamic? Ecommerce or blog? If you are running mostly static site or wordpress blog just use Openlitespeed + Cloudflare with full page caching. This will offload your entire site to cloudflare and you'll basically have very little traffic thats not served at the edge. You can also use Openlitespeeds' CDN for faster serving but not quite free, but neither is cloudflares paid tier which you'd probably want. Anyway see below for some options.
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I run an adult tube site with tens of thousands of embedded videos on WP-Script.

Which cloudflare tier should I get? And is it just as simple as setting up CF DNS to server IP and then just pointing the domain to nameservers? That's all that needs to be done to take advantage of this?
 
Stifmeister said:
Funny, I would assume the opposite as cloudflare is advertised as privacy first.
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Certainly not in the EU. There is no privacy first with Cloudflare.

Major providers, i.e. Hetzner, clearly avoid Cloudflare by all means just to keep their customers.
 
Stifmeister said:
I run an adult tube site with tens of thousands of embedded videos on WP-Script.

Which cloudflare tier should I get? And is it just as simple as setting up CF DNS to server IP and then just pointing the domain to nameservers? That's all that needs to be done to take advantage of this?
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Pretty much. It's free tier is pretty good. It's just a proxy they don't store shit idk what this other dudes going on about
 
velinxs said:
Pretty much. It's free tier is pretty good. It's just a proxy they don't store shit idk what this other dudes going on about
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What does the premium tier offer? I don't mind paying if it improves site speed, as even a minor boost at this point would increase my bottom line drastically.

I don't know why, but perhaps it's my DB at fault here, I've done nothing apart from the standard setup you get. Looking at the top processes it's always mysql hogging up 200% of CPU.
 
Stifmeister said:
As the title suggest, how do you know which server/VPS to pick to host your website?

For example, if a site receives 500k-1m monthly users on average. What kind of server would be able to properly handle such traffic without page-speed issues?
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i have a question ? can you use VPN in this case ?
 
Stifmeister said:
Im not sure what would a VPN achieve?


What exactly does cloudflare premium offer that would help me with my site speeds?
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Auto image optimization and sizing for one. Full page caching via page rules. Some advanced cache stuff. Free is good tho too.
 
velinxs said:
Auto image optimization and sizing for one. Full page caching via page rules. Some advanced cache stuff. Free is good tho to
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Stifmeister said:
What does the premium tier offer? I don't mind paying if it improves site speed, as even a minor boost at this point would increase my bottom line drastically.

I don't know why, but perhaps it's my DB at fault here, I've done nothing apart from the standard setup you get. Looking at the top processes it's always mysql hogging up 200% of CPU.
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Do you have redis or memcached setup??

If not def setup that.
 
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