Cristian
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What happens when your website goes viral and your host simply cannot maintain the amount of traffic it suddenly got?
Has anyone been in the situation of buying a low budget hosting packages and starting a small website not having really high hopes, just doing basic SEO and starting to write articles doing some social media campaigns but suddenly something starts working as it should and you got huge amounts of traffic coming your way, a lot then your host can handle.
What can you do in such a situation, because time is very important, you won't want people trying to access your website only to be hit by an error of some kind.
I've recently witnessed experienced such an event, a website under our administration got a huge influx of traffic for both organic sources but also a social campaign going viral, the servers got overloaded and the website crashed, our sys admin was going crazy calling the hosting company for an emergency upgrade but everything is moving very slowly because everything happened this weekend and hosting company used by this website doesn't have a 24h customer service in place.
What kind of security measures can one implement to make sure a website doesn't crash when a traffic spike hits all time high? The answer will be a better hosting plan but not everyone is willing to pay for such a server every month just because the website "may" or "may not" go viral at some point.
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First thing i do is move my site to CloudFlare its help me to reduce the load by delivering cache, specially enabling the "Roket engine" at CloudFlare help me reduct server response time and bandwidth usage!. CloudFlare also help you to transfer your website to new server in matter of minutes. just change the IP and you are at new server!
If you don't want to use cloudflare its okay, but in case if you want to change server its take around 24 hours every time you change the server or IP of DNS!
2nd I setup a new Hosting with Cache Server, it could be Varnish or Nginx Proxy !
3rd. Enable MySQL (Database) query cache its reduce the MySQL Server load
4th. Add Cache to HOMEPAGE!
5th. Enable the PHP Based cache on those pages which open alot, you can check by the Google Analytics which page open alot!
That's all i do, and i have currently nearly 100k traffic and i am running 8GB, 8 Core CPU with 1GBPS Shared Connection, and its never go above 20% server usage (1.5 1.5 1.5).
Thanks, I have into this kind of situation multiple times, Once you have high traffic you can't just trust your existed host/server, so you start to build a backup incase if there is misshape you can transfer. First thing i do is move my site to [b]CloudFlare[/b] its help me to reduce the load by delivering cache, specially enabling the "Roket engine" at CloudFlare help me reduct server response time and bandwidth usage!. CloudFlare also help you to transfer your website to new server in matter of minutes. just change the IP and you are at new server! If you don't want to use cloudflare its okay, but in case if you want to change server its take around 24 hours every time you change the server or IP of DNS! 2nd I setup a new Hosting with Cache Server, it could be Varnish or Nginx Proxy ! 3rd. Enable MySQL (Database) query cache its reduce the MySQL Server load 4th. Add Cache to HOMEPAGE! 5th. Enable the PHP Based cache on those pages which open alot, you can check by the Google Analytics which page open alot! That's all i do, and i have currently nearly 100k traffic and i am running 8GB, 8 Core CPU with 1GBPS Shared Connection, and its never go above 20% server usage (1.5 1.5 1.5). Thanks,
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