Webhosting : VPS performance / server

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This web hosting thread started by whoppe 0n 13 April 2009

We are getting into VPS hosting and wanted to get some opinions and feedback as we’re quite unsure on what to expect as for performance and how many clients we can generally keep on a box.

For now we’ve bought 3 dell R710 with dual Xeon L5520, 72GB ram and 8 x 2.5″ SAS drives.

We are thinking of a base offering of 512 megabytes of ram and
was hoping to get about 40-50 onto a server.

With 40 there should be -plenty- free ram and plenty drivecache.

Then a next offering of 1 gig ram and next one of 2 gigs.

Even if we do the biggest 2 gig offering with 25 on a server we should have free ram to spare.

The software would be virtuozzo.

Any thoughts on this, am I expecting too much, or am I being fairly realistic?

edit: We do not wish to do gross overselling, I believe that overselling capacities, especially things such as RAM in vz will lead to “interesting” errors
which will only drive customers away.

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