In house?
Jim, how much traffic use on the average month, if I might ask?
In house?
Jim, how much traffic use on the average month, if I might ask?
We used to have software on our server that provided detailed stats but it quit working when we upgraded some other programs. We now use Google Analytic stats.
Generally speaking our numbers have been very consistent for many years now.
These are monthly numbers from our old software:
Data Transfer 3,120,053,304 million KBytes
Page Views 130 million
Files transfered 357,428,444
We have 40 to 60 thousand unique visitors every day, obviously most are Visitors or Members who don't login.
Our Server Admin monitors the current data from Google.
Thanks, Keith. That equates to roughly 3 TB, so aside from the stress on a single server for a busy forum, well within traffic for an average server within the price range I gave (most have far more, standard). If the database is handled on a second server to offload some of the io consumption (in and out traffic to the CPU, basically) and storage needs, no more than $400-ish would probably handle the load. Cost may climb a bit adding in extra drives or backup space, but that would be a guess.
Here's one such server: https://www.tailormadeservers.com/or...LT-T420&CFG=12 (someone I use, no monetary interest)
Drives are a bit small, but can be increased. A ton of RAM. That would be a decent system for a forum this size. Maybe.
Roy, SMC already has state-of-the-art servers that are paid for, for both production and for testing. They are capable of much more traffic than they support today. It's always been hosted in-house.
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Didn't mean to upset anyone. Forget I said anything.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
I'm not privy to their traffic stats, but I run a large-ish forum that seems to have about half of the post traffic that we have here. I'm currently running it on rented hardware because I'm actually trying to minimize the amount of hardware I have to take care of in datacenters. It runs $700/year for all of the software, support fees, and hardware rental. We do a donation run every time the cash runs low.Please excuse my complete ignorance on this subject, but now I'm very curious as to how much it actually costs to run a website like SMC on an annual basis. $10,000 per year? $100,000? $1,000,000? I honestly have no idea, at all.
Peter, anecdotally, access from mobile devices has gotten "large"...and it's one reason that Keith and Aaron are working toward the move to Xenforo since that forum software provides really good native support for mobile devices, unlike vBulletin. Generally speaking and from my experience helping with multiple forum sites, access from desktop and portable computers has quickly become eclipsed by access from mobile phones and tablets across the board "as it were".
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
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