MediaTemple DV Servers
So I haven’t blogged about Geekness in a while either. So in my last post I talked about Dingleit.com. Well Dingleit.com has forced me to learn new things about hosting and servers and all that fun stuff. So before I talk about hardware, here is the latest traffic stats off of our Google Analytics for our first month in business. :-)
- 53,010 Visits
- 17,878 Absolute Unique Visitors
- 299,732 Pageviews
- 5.65 Average Pageviews
- 00:03:12 Time on Site
- 19.29% Bounce Rate
We have 4678 members signed up as well.
Okay so given these stats this is the server setup we are using.
- 1 x MediaTemple DV Base Server - This handles all our file serving but no Database. It’s running Litespeed.
- 1 x MediaTemple GS + mySQL Container - This handles all our Database serving. We do also run our development stuff on this grid account. But that traffic is very minimal since it’s just a couple of developers on it.
Traffic does spike here and there but nothing so far that has caused any major slow downs. We decided on Litespeed because Apache was killing our resources. And in the spirit of saving money we wanted to cut costs as MUCH as possible. We will be looking for a redundant solution soon. However at this point, we’re not completely mission critical. So this does us just fine. I’m still loving MediaTemple. I hate managing a DV server. So Josh takes care of that. :-) However, with the DV comes the SPEED and agility. So there ya have it! Thats our setup.
