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how to run 10m visits with $15 a month wordpress + ec2 (11)

04-01-2012 09:34 AM #1 tijn (Moderator)
how to run 10m visits with $15 a month wordpress + ec2

If your into configuring your own servers and shit like that, then this is one awesome tutorial about optimising and running 10m visits through the smallest ec2 server

http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10...ng-a-15-server

Heres the blitz io graph



Now that is some amazing performance!

Varnish
Nginx
W3 Total Cache
WordPress
Amazon Micro server

The great thing to see is the impact of the different stages of the setup.

Wordpress + APC - just under 900k visits a day
+WP Total Cache - 6m visits
+Varnish - 10m

04-10-2012 10:11 PM #2 hd2010 (Member)

powerful softwares, come great performance

04-10-2012 11:21 PM #3 krueger (Member)

I'm thinking of getting amazon EC2 on the regions I'm advertising in because of the response time, since almost all VPSs there suck (uptime and support), and BH which I'm currently using has a response time 20 times bigger. I hear that cloud servers are made for utilities that need the scalability, and it's not recommended for a website. In my case, would it be worth it? What are the downsides of running a website with EC2?

Thanks

04-11-2012 01:48 AM #4 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by krueger View Post
I'm thinking of getting amazon EC2 on the regions I'm advertising in because of the response time, since almost all VPSs there suck (uptime and support), and BH which I'm currently using has a response time 20 times bigger. I hear that cloud servers are made for utilities that need the scalability, and it's not recommended for a website. In my case, would it be worth it? What are the downsides of running a website with EC2?

Thanks
What does 20 times bigger mean? If your running WP without any sort of caching its always going to be slow.

Main issues with amazing aws is overall network latency, disk io latency and io contention because of it being a shared storage environment.

If you want consistent page load performance you should offload all static content to CDN and only do php processing/tracking on your *server*.

04-11-2012 03:12 AM #5 hd2010 (Member)

I still don't understand why people still want to use apache for high traffic site ? Yuck

04-11-2012 06:56 AM #6 joejoechen (Member)

and i can't understand a thing u guys just said.. =.=

04-11-2012 11:49 AM #7 tijn (Moderator)

lol. no worries Joe - even I am sometimes lost in the world of servers, databases, and all that sort of talk.

04-11-2012 01:55 PM #8 inversion (Member)

Check this out for the dummies version:

http://cloudspring.com/setting-up-wo...on-amazon-ec2/

04-11-2012 05:54 PM #9 kokofai ()

Quote Originally Posted by joejoechen View Post
and i can't understand a thing u guys just said.. =.=
LOL agreed!

But I know tijn just made some magic and a normal server can suddenly support up to 10m visitors without needing a dedi. Correct me if I'm wrong?

Sometimes I wonder If i'm in an affiliate marketing forum or a magician forum...

04-12-2012 03:03 PM #10 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kokofai View Post
LOL agreed!

But I know tijn just made some magic and a normal server can suddenly support up to 10m visitors without needing a dedi. Correct me if I'm wrong?

Sometimes I wonder If i'm in an affiliate marketing forum or a magician forum...
It's all about caching. If the server has to process the page 100 times for 10 million visitors all its doing is uploading files constantly, thats easy for a webserver to do.

The php and database are what induces load and requires more performance. We've got a few customers with WP blogs that do 5-10 million uniques a day with an i3 dual core an 8gb ram. All about caching. The major affiliate load is your tracking database.

04-12-2012 04:02 PM #11 hd2010 (Member)

agree with tyler, caching do wonder

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