webhost for very large gallery?

mystavash

Joined: 2004-09-12
Posts: 69

Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 17:56

I really like gallery because the community is great, it's user friendly, etc.

But my site has over 55 000 images. With derivatives, who knows. My host kept yelling at me over server overload; I'd fix whatever they said, and it was temporary, but finally they are sick of me and kicking me out. At this rate, I'm just trying desperately to be able to get a backup, at least.

I want to keep my website running, but this situation is not at all sustainable. Should I even keep using gallery? It's not space or bandwidth, it seems, and it's always, always a gallery problem. I can't keep up with it. I can't afford more than say, $50/month, what are my other options?

Anisa.

alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4338

Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 20:16

You might be able to find a virtual server package for that.

lvthunder

Joined: 2003-09-12
Posts: 804

Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 21:21

You might want to try mediatemple.

floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 22888

Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 21:53

http://www.ithought.org/
but it does not come with cpanel but the support, reliability and speed have been good.

Dave
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mystavash

Joined: 2004-09-12
Posts: 69

Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 05:03

How do I know how much memory I need?

alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4338

Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 08:43

There's no way to tell without trial and error, unfortunately.

tkteun

Joined: 2007-04-10
Posts: 3

Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 12:51

I'm currently using Inmotion Hosting:

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/hostingplans.html

$6.95/mo unlimited transfer and storage. You just shouldn't have too much viewers and CPU hungry plugins.

I've never had any timeouts on this server, no database problems and no connection problems (even if the server is halfway around the world).

Maybe it is a bit too much for cpanel hosting, 55000 images. I'm currently at 5000.

I've heard some good things about http://www.slicehost.com/ too. It would be very difficult for you to upset those kinds of servers.

mystavash

Joined: 2004-09-12
Posts: 69

Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 15:03

Last time I checked, the site gets about a million hits a month, sometimes there are spikes depending on what bots are wandering around. I didn't have problems with transfer and storage, since both were unlimited where I was, it was just server overload with CPU usage. I've tried disabling pretty much everything I could, but 55,000 is a huge difference from 5,000.

I've considered just letting drupal handle it through its own image module, but with drupal not being backwards compatible, I feel I'm just asking for a lot of heartache. I'm tempted to just cut the images and go with HTML...

Anisa.

mystavash Joined: 2004-09-12 Posts: 69	Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 17:56
	I really like gallery because the community is great, it's user friendly, etc. But my site has over 55 000 images. With derivatives, who knows. My host kept yelling at me over server overload; I'd fix whatever they said, and it was temporary, but finally they are sick of me and kicking me out. At this rate, I'm just trying desperately to be able to get a backup, at least. I want to keep my website running, but this situation is not at all sustainable. Should I even keep using gallery? It's not space or bandwidth, it seems, and it's always, always a gallery problem. I can't keep up with it. I can't afford more than say, $50/month, what are my other options? Anisa.
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alecmyers Joined: 2006-08-01 Posts: 4338	Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 20:16
	You might be able to find a virtual server package for that.

lvthunder Joined: 2003-09-12 Posts: 804	Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 21:21
	You might want to try mediatemple.

floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 22888	Posted: Thu, 2009-02-19 21:53
	http://www.ithought.org/ but it does not come with cpanel but the support, reliability and speed have been good. Dave _____________________________________________ Blog & G2 \|\| floridave - Gallery Team

mystavash Joined: 2004-09-12 Posts: 69	Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 05:03
	How do I know how much memory I need?

alecmyers Joined: 2006-08-01 Posts: 4338	Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 08:43
	There's no way to tell without trial and error, unfortunately.

tkteun Joined: 2007-04-10 Posts: 3	Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 12:51
	I'm currently using Inmotion Hosting: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/hostingplans.html $6.95/mo unlimited transfer and storage. You just shouldn't have too much viewers and CPU hungry plugins. I've never had any timeouts on this server, no database problems and no connection problems (even if the server is halfway around the world). Maybe it is a bit too much for cpanel hosting, 55000 images. I'm currently at 5000. I've heard some good things about http://www.slicehost.com/ too. It would be very difficult for you to upset those kinds of servers.

mystavash Joined: 2004-09-12 Posts: 69	Posted: Fri, 2009-02-20 15:03
	Last time I checked, the site gets about a million hits a month, sometimes there are spikes depending on what bots are wandering around. I didn't have problems with transfer and storage, since both were unlimited where I was, it was just server overload with CPU usage. I've tried disabling pretty much everything I could, but 55,000 is a huge difference from 5,000. I've considered just letting drupal handle it through its own image module, but with drupal not being backwards compatible, I feel I'm just asking for a lot of heartache. I'm tempted to just cut the images and go with HTML... Anisa.

webhost for very large gallery?

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