UKclearancecentre Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I have noticed some good deals on VPS from some hosting providers which on paper seem to give me the same or even better specs for around half the price of what i am currently paying for a dedicated server wondered what peoples opinions are on VPS compared to my spec of my dedicated server. My current dedicated server which i have had for a about 4 years which i am paying $100 US per month, The server specification is: Single core celeron 2.5ghz cpu, 1GB ram, 100gb SATA hard drive, 1000GB traffic per month, 4 ip addresses, fedora linux, apache 2, mysql, php5, cpanel/whm configuration software. I currently run 1 prestashop install on the server but several other none prestashop sites are also hosted on the server and its starting to get a bit slow. Is it worth me moving to a VPS and saving a few hundred dollars per year, staying on the dedicated server or maybe even something like Amazon cloud hosting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturner Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I'm on a vps with similar specs to your dedicated, including ~ $100/mo. I've got a 2.69 ghz cpu dual core, a gig and a half of RAM, 80 gig hd, centos, cpanel/whm, 4 ip addresses. I've got 6 stores running, 3 of them prestashop. No speed problems (after months of tweaking). I'm willing to pay more because of the support I'm getting; you might not need that. I'm using Amazon Cloudfront as a media server. Very fast and it's running me about 40 cents per month. Your site ran very fast for me just now and I'm in the US. I would go for more RAM if I were you. I'm happy with a vps. *If* I had all the same quality for $50/month I'd be even happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuk Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I'm using Amazon Cloudfront as a media server. Very fast and it's running me about 40 cents per month. Your site ran very fast for me just now and I'm in the US. I would go for more RAM if I were you. I'm happy with a vps. *If* I had all the same quality for $50/month I'd be even happier. Hi rturner, can I ask you how did you configure Cloudfront? I've just started that service, made one distribution with 3 static cnames that i've had inserted into CCC media server section. It seems to work fine with images but css and js are still coming from my host, any idea? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturner Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Hi Nanuk, I'm not sure about putting 3 static cnames as the CCC media servers. I assume these are your own cnames? I used the one "domain name" that AWS created for me. Not that your 3 CNAMEs won't work, but that's not what I did. I went into the Cloudfront Manager and selected Create Distribution. The first window of the wizard had the choice between Download and [spam-filter]. Choose Download. Clicking on Continue they want your origin. I put in my prestashop domain and it automatically assigned me an Origin ID. Then I chose Match Viewer rather than HTTP only. It assigned me ports 80 and 443. Clicking Continue I chose HTTP and HTTPS, Use Origin Cache Headers and No on the Forward Query Strings. Next page I left the choices default or blank and Enabled the distribution. That page is where you would enter your own CNAMEs. They have a help button that explains it. Under Default Root Object (from what I read) you could have a specific CNAME pointing to say, the folder where you keep your css files. I'm not sure if it is serving my css files because everything loads so quickly. But that gives me an idea to try it and include a CNAME that points to my CSS directory. If I get that to work, I'll post back here. I'm using Cloudcache.com for one of my other stores and that definitely serves all the css and script files. That's $9/month flat rate. Oddly, the store I am using AWS with is Prestashop 1.4.6.2 and it works fine with AWS, but there are lots of images missing when I tried it with Cloudcache.com. The second store is running on PS 1.4.8.2 and I have the reverse problem. Certain images won't show up on AWS, but everything works on Cloudcache.com. I'm working on trying to understand why that is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomerg3 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It really depends on the size of your store / visitors per month. From my experience, you want the following: Under 5,000 visitors = Shared Hosting. 5,000 - 20,000 = VPS Over 20,000 = Dedicated Hosting. More than anything, you want to make sure that the support is good, especially for large stores that make a lot of money. If you site is down for some reason, you want to be able to call someone from your host that has technical knowledge, rather than get passed around from one idiot to another for 20-30 minutes before finally getting some real help (Based on my bad experience with Inmotion hosting & goddady...) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuk Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Hi again Rturner, thank you for your kindly reply. I've just followed the steps you did to create a distribution (once with the aws domain and once with 3 cnames), but i see css and js are not served, only images. I'll try to go further on that and i'll write here in case, please do the same if you get to a conclusion before me I don't know about the default root object, it seems to me just a point to the root (index.html) but maybe i'm wrong. About Cloudcache I'm using it as well but it's a little messy: if you choose just one ALL zone he gets the contents correctly (css and js too), but if you set one by one zones (img, js, css, others - that shoul be better) he returns a problem with the images not getting the right path. I've spent hours with the Cloudcache support and they weren't able to find a solution. I'm using the 1.4.6.2 PS release. Do you use on ALL zone or more separated? Basing on your experience, which one does it seems faster to you? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturner Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I think AWS is actually serving my .css and .js files. I just made a blatant change to my global.css and couldn't get it to show up on the site, so it has to be served from AWS. I agree with you about the default root object. I read further and didn't see it accomplishing anything that I needed. I have one cloudcache instance in the zone pulling everything. I can't really tell which one serves faster. Cloudcache gives you a little more control. As I said, I use both because one works for one store and the other works for the other store. I spent hours trying to find out why one would work and one wouldn't on either AWS or Cloudcache. In the end all I could find that I did differently was that the version of one store is 4.6.2 and the other is 4.8.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuk Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Surely Cloudcache gives more control, but i still think both of them are having some issues with PS. Hope in the next week some new module comes out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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