Dedicated servers for high volume traffic (7)
Hey guys, so our pages are popping up to about 10~13 users / second. In other words, every second we have about 10 ~ 13 users seeing our popped-up web pages.
We don't need much space for storage since the web files are pretty small, so the most important thing is the page-loading speed.
a CDN is not suitable for us because we are using a lot of .php pages, so I wonder if a 8GB RAM dedicated server is fast enough for us?
Any examples of dedicated server plans are highly appreciated!
Why aren't you consider cloud? Like AWS EC2 or similar?
The answer to this question depends on how heavy the PHP you're using is. What does the PHP on the page actually do? Does it need to connect to a database, and if so, how many database calls per page does it make? Are any of those calls writes, or all reads?
Also, are you running tracking on the same server, or are you using an external tracker?
Finally, what's the maximum traffic rate you're seeing on the server? If 10-13 per sec is an average, what's the maximum the machine would need to cope with?
Sorry for all the questions - but if you can answer them we should be able to give you a realistic estimate of what you'll need.
As a very, very rough ballpark, a well-optimised 8Gb server with a decent CPU should be able to cope with a couple of database calls to a not-totally-insane database schema and some PHP on the page at that level of traffic. However, if you were running an uncached Wordpress installation, for example, then the server would probably fall over, burn down, and sink into the swamp...
It should be enough, providing you've got a nice CPU on it and the scripts are well optimized, thus do not take long to run. Should you like to arrange tests, please let me know 
I've got a bunch of HW that you can do it free of charge for some time
Keep in mind that if you are using cached stuff then it will eat your disk. so if possible cache them in memory for super fast stuff.
8GB RAM should be okay, but as said above, it depends on that your page does. Also I'd suggest a nice 8 core CPU too.
I recommended RRS Host Cloud Dedicated Server Or Digital Ocean
"a CDN is not suitable for us because we are using a lot of .php pages,"
You will still benefit greatly from a CDN. Do your pages have static assets? images? .css files? javascript? All of that you can edgecast from a CDN.
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