High Traffic site: what is the rigth server ?

Posted on January 5, 2015

Hello I have a high traffic website… from 200,000 daily page views, to 2,000,000 page views per day… Yes, it is a viral website… I know, they dont have too much time left, but, anyways… I use CDN, and get a huge bill, I also pay almost $1000 for a couple of servers, but, I have the feeling that Im been ripped off by the hosting company…it is a wordpress site, with an average of 3 images per article, of around 125k each image, plus one or 2 embeded youtube videos… What would be the right dedicated server to host my website?

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Zeeshan Javaid

March 23, 2018

Hi @DianaM - can you suggest any server to me i’m going to hit 30K traffic at the time of my clothing article launch.

here is analytic stats last year may 2017. https://snag.gy/xB2ogF.jpg (expecting more traffic on 26th of Mar 2018

Please suggest droplet size and if there are necessary settings required.

Thanks, Z

checkresults93

September 13, 2017

I have a site on digital ocean $5 droplet and i have installed site using easy engine command --wpfc but my question is when the traffic reached upto 1k realtime the server response time is too low. So, is there is any command or line to maintain the CPU usage via ssh. Thanks in advance and your suggestion will be appreciated.