More stress testing the VPS with scripts since nobody's volunteered a real site. Just running a couple scripts continually downloading the tracker image from the VPS, it seems to be handling 2000-3000 queries per second on the database while extremely responsive.
Either something's wrong or I underestimated just how little resources you need when you have few enough users on a server that all the tables can be kept in memory. If only W3Counter's database server had 24GB of RAM...
I've had a number of people come to me looking for a
W3Counter plan that can handle more than the "Pro" plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against letting people download and run W3Counter themselves — it's complicated to set up, with a complex database, a slew of cron jobs, and requires pretty recent versions of PHP and MySQL many hosts still don't offer. It's also unlikely to perform well on shared hosting, and I'm sure some would try to run it there anyway.
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It means the DNS change for this domain has propogated to your ISP. The move of all my sites from two servers at NAC and one at LayeredTech to two brand-new servers at
SoftLayer is under way. As is the process of putting all 40+ websites under version control at a third location. Read on for my experience with SoftLayer and the move.
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I rent one of my servers from
LayeredTech. I initially chose them when W3Counter outgrew its last server as they were the only company I couldn't find many negative reviews of that sold Opteron servers at a price I could afford for a site that, at the time, wasn't charging anything. But they lost me as a customer after I got this last e-mail. Sent with the misleading subject "Dan Save $453.60", it's actually an announcement of an unprecedented price increase on existing service. It's a mere $8 per server, but still something I've never seen done in the web hosting industry -- prices change all the time, but once you get a customer, you never change the price on that customer.
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