"Good Enough Server Specs" to handle a site with 500k-800k Page View a day

[Dan18]

I manage this one Site with huge amount of visitors.
Based on Jetpack Site Stats, 500k-800k Page View a day.
and based on Google Analytics, 2,000 real time visitors on low peak and will climb up to 8,000 real time visitors on peak hours.

So for those managing similar amount of visitor, What server specs can you recommend?

Thanks!

 

[Dan18]

It is a WP site by the way.
Right now I'm using Linode 32GB plan for Nginx/PHP Webserver and 4GB plan for Database Server.
But really struggling on CPU since PHP-FPM is really CPU hog.

 

[gog1970]

I manage this one Site with huge amount of visitors.
Based on Jetpack Site Stats, 500k-800k Page View a day.
and based on Google Analytics, 2,000 real time visitors on low peak and will climb up to 8,000 real time visitors on peak hours.

So for those managing similar amount of visitor, What server specs can you recommend?

Thanks!

I will leave answering your question to people with more knowledge,just wanted to say nice stat's

 

[eva2000]

curious why aren't you using any caching ? like wp super cache, wordpress with fastcgi_cache or wordpress with varnish cache - all those will help

 

[Dan18]

like wp super cache,

I'm using this already Eva .

 

[bucket]

Right now I'm using Linode 32GB plan for Nginx/PHP Webserver and 4GB plan for Database Server.

are they on the same machine?

is it about time to get a dedicated server for that busy site?

 

[Dan18]

Linode 32GB plan for Nginx/PHP

Separate Linode VPS

4GB plan for Database Server

Another Linode VPS.

 

[bucket]

yeah, I got that they were both VPS s. I was wondering if they were on the same hardware (node). if they were, you might not be getting the best performance boost.

 

[Dan18]

you might not be getting the best performance boost.

And why?

 

[bucket]

would they be sharing the same resources?

 

[Dan18]

Well I think the current server is too much.
I can downgrade it to 8GB for Nginx/PHP-FPM I think for now.

Sucuri save me again .
Server just build from scratch last few hours (2pm) then move the site:
I enable Sucuri 9PM and System load goes really low.

 

[eva2000]

if wp super cache was working properly, you shouldn't be hitting php-fpm much anyway ?? or you have logged in users that bypass wp super cache ?

sucuri like cloudflare doesn't really cache php but static files right ?

 

[Dan18]

if wp super cache was working properly

It is.
Caching 1K+ pages now.

you shouldn't be hitting php-fpm much anyway ?

A lot of layer 7 attacks, that wp-super-cache is useless.

or you have logged in users that bypass wp super cache ?

Just a few, writers.
Almost 20.

sucuri like cloudflare doesn't really cache php but static files right ?

They have some same functionality.
But Sucuri has robust protection that Cloudflare don't have.
https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/ddos-protection

And Sucuri does full page caching not only static files.

 

[eva2000]

ah so you needed WAF not caching layer.. would be curious to see your sucuri cloudproxy report detailed break down of blocked resources pie chart to see what the majority of malicious requests were coming from

FYI, i also use sucuri and cloudflare

 

[Dan18]

I'm cloudflare pro plan user also, but Cloudflare WAF doesn't mitigate it :/
I think no need to snapshot as 90% of them is the same:

Blocking reason:BNP004 - Bad bot access denied
Request Method:GET
HTTP Protocol:HTTP/1.1
HTTP Status:403 Forbidden
HTTP User-Agent:-

Blocking reasonDOS22 - DDOS attempt blocked
Request Method:GET
HTTP Protocol:HTTP/1.1
HTTP Status:403 Forbidden
HTTP Referer:-
HTTP User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0

 

[eva2000]

ah so it was aggressive bot crawling and a ddos attack pattern causing your problems..

 

[Dan18]

Yeah, even CSF can't figure it out.
Since visitors every seconds is ranging from 2K-8K.

 

[eva2000]

Yeah, even CSF can't figure it out.
Since visitors every seconds is ranging from 2K-8K.

what about sucuri's audit trail page ? no specific info ?

 

[Dan18]

what about sucuri's audit trail page ? no specific info ?

This post was taken on that page.

 

[eva2000]

I see