where do you go from here? buy more powerful rackspace @ same web hosting company? go half and half with CDN? cloud?
what do you guys use? i use cloudflare so far but the php scripts are still wearing down my server.
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Well, if you notice when you buy a server, most of the applications are pre-installed on the server, which you may not use and comsumes the resources like Disk space and RAM (memory). The best way is to optimize your server by terminating and removing such unnecessary services and programs. Also, the CDN is one of the good ways. A cloud server is a single cluster where multiple high configuration servers are used to form a cloud. Because, of that it offers high availability, scalability and 100% network uptime guarantee.
Optimise your application, optimise your web server/PHP/database software… then look at upgrading the hardware itself, then look at clustered solutions/load balancing etc.
A typical "cloud" platform is just a VPS/VDS with a SAN back-end. You hope that the SAN isn’t over-contended with i/o. Whilst live migration when a hypervisor node fails is all well and good, it really doesn’t protect against the most common type of failure… that is typically software/OS.
k well check this out though
first of all you throwin too many big words at me.
ok now because i dont understand them
im gonna take them as disrespect
Personally I recommend optimising your software firstly - no point at throwing more money at the problem.
So look at changing your PHP/web server/MySQL settings.
E.g. if you can, you might want to look at using Nginx instead of Apache, or Apache with opcode caching, or tweaking your MySQL my.cnf.
Something else to look at is using something like varnish to serve cached pages to "guest" visitors to your site (this is good for very busy forums/blog type sites)