Proxy owners help

Hello,
i wanted to know what configuration of server do i need for starting proxy site, because i had proxy before and surprisingly only one website taken whole resources of my dedicated server.. which was having configuration P4 with 1 gb ram. or after buyinh p4 do i need to tune up any setting with dedicated server ? please tell me what setting do you do after buying dedicated box for proxy and how many proxy site can i run with one server having 1 gb ram p4. and also advice me what configuration do i need for starting proxy and also if u can recommend any good dedicated server company. plz help

 

Maybe you were getting too much traffic...that could have killed your server? At this stage I don't tweak any of mine, although having said that I've set Apache to a base install with no bells and whistles on one box just to keep things low resource wise. Seriously though, if your proxy was using the entire server you were probably getting a pile of traffic, I'd recommend making sure you're getting ads to those visitors and maximising your revenue so you can afford 1 box..and even more to load balance if required

 

Are you talking about a PHP based proxy or PERL?

If you are running a single instance of the PHP based proxy then you don't need to go with the heavier server configs. You'll probably saturate your uplink before breaking the server's back. It doesn't really take a monster server to push 9TB/month (which is about what you'd push on a 100 Mbit uplink.)

The PERL (CGIProxy) based proxy is a lot more resource intensive as it strikes up the PERL interpreter each time it is run. mod_perl might help you there - depends how the proxy is written, but you'll probably see some benefit from using it.

RAM is probably going to be of most help. Try to get 2GB or more. It'll help in tuning Apache.

Do you need to be able to handle high peak usage or sustained rates? What killed your previous server?

Cheers,

 

Indeed, CGIProxy sites are CPU consuming, I doubt you can handle more than 30 users with 1GB ram, hence I've personally experienced. The CPU Usage is sky high. Even if you optmized perl, it still wouldn't do much of a site, right now Im running 17 PHProxy sites on my 2gb ram server, it's perfect.

 

ic..but i guess.. Php does not support these myspace and other sites.. does it supports ?

 

PHP doesnt support myspace,but i think CGI supports myspace sites

 

PHP supports myspace sites, yes they do. Im not advertising my site or anything but you can go to episodee.com and enter myspace and gmail, both works.

 

well do u raelly think VPS with 512 mb ram is good option ?

 

There's no good option or bad option. It's all about how you can handle it, if you have a huge load of visitors, you need better ram, if not, a 512MB ram normally handles good loads. I can't give you any estimate as I donno how your site functions, but my phproxy sites works perfectly on a 2GB ram, and the cpu load is low.

 

Why use a CGI Proxy? Get the new PHP Proxy that allows you to get onto myspace, because thats what most teens are looking for, and PHProxy only takes up a lot of bandwidth.

 

For a PHP Proxy? Yes, absolutely. However, you'll chew up a lot of bandwidth - probably more than most VPS/shared host providers are willing to give you for $30/month after a month or so.

 

PHP v0.5b2 seems to work quite well with MySpace in my experience.

 

do you mean the latest beta offical version?

i tried it and it really works with myspace.

It doesnt work in the part..

 

If you know how to tune a server, use PHP based proxy then you can probably use a 3G processor (or AMD equiv), a Gig of ram and as muich B/W as you can afford.

ATM, I am using a AMD 2600+ with 1Gig Ram and running 4 proxies on it. It runs just fine. I did not waste resources by running anything that is not absolutely needed - so no control panel on this box and I opted for FreeBSD as the OS. This sort of setup is not for everyone - as you really need to know how to run a server to make it work.

If you think you need something like CPanel, then up the specs of your box to make sure you have enough resources (go for at least a 3.6G processor and 2G ram)