Masterhost tupit or how to choose a good web hosting

When I came to web building, it was faced with the fact that a good hosting service - something in the nature of the almost exclusive. For a long time for me was the flagship of Masterhost, but over the past few months I was concerned and the attitude of tech support and stability of access to the site: the habit advised clients to dump there.

However, in order. I began my acquaintance with Hihgway. ru - I do not know if they work more. As long as the studio where I worked, there were only three of their site, then all was ok. But I'm a prolific, stsuko. I rivet a dozen purely for the studio, including the regional singles and banner engine. And put our network of sites on the edge of survival.

With all the charms of the host, there cool limit on the number of concurrent connections to the database. And all. The more popular sites become, the harder it was for them to break. The F5 button has become a favorite of our visitors. The apotheosis was - srubka when downloading the key file and the loss due to tech support. And four days, the site hung twisted until we have restored access.

So we started our search for. And stopped at VDS ( virtual dedicated server ) from Rusonix. ru. It was good, but not enough. VDS is bounded above by a vydelyamoy memory processes. And even in the long term extension of up to 64MB of no avail. The server slowed, bad sites loaded. It was therefore decided to move to the next. Now I can not remember the name of the company, but the word ' technology cluster ' enchanted us. At first it was really nothing, but then began again the difficulties.

Here I parted with the company and went to the free swimming. And my first abode was Masterhost. However, while I was only two sites (corporate and one client), everything was ok. But over time I came back to web construction in full. In addition, my dating while living away from his good friend and strained my ' neprooptimizirovanny ' Motor. Later it turned out that it is his mot ( Bitrix ) is far from optimized, but I had to move out.

At first it was a dedicated server in Silicon Valley. How I rejoiced. The first two weeks, but then it turned out that the support service - this is probably a couple of students, because there have been online they are only at night. Instead of answers - excuse. And then came an offer from my customers and suppliers - they opened the area for hosting. Since then I have a fourth year with them. And I do not regret. I'll through them for two servers.

Thus, the experienced advice.
1) There is no flawless hosting. All this should be easy to reconcile.
2) SHARED limited to around. Even if the traffic anlim, you can still hit a server load or number of connections.
3) SHARED hosts on a single server can be up to 1000-5000.
4 ) VDS- hosts on a single server typically 5-10. There are limitations to the allocated memory.
5) on a dedicated server, you and only you. There are no restrictions. There are no neighbors.

The load on the host can grow out of the load on the Apache and the load on the database server. If you have the engine running with the files - the main strained by Apache. The more files to process, the greater the load. Therefore, at some hosts Satkha retarding. The longer the files are processed, the greater the load on the Apache. The more visitors, the greater must be given to files at the same time, the greater the load on the Apache.

Working with the base - it is better. But there's limitations. When many records in the table, the site starts to slow down when you access it. Once we killed servak ​​just scoring to the table a million records. Sam did not shine servak ​​novelty and even just when trying to clear the table dying.

When the site begins to attend a LOT of people, it is necessary to update or servak ​​of power or change the software, or split the load among multiple servers. What a big load? . visitors per day search bots. But while this is still very far.