Who do you think is the best server tech?

[Jim McClain]

I am considering hiring someone to optimize my dedicated (KnownHost managed) server. It's running CENTOS 7.6 standard v74.0.12 with 8 Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz processors, 16GB RAM. Operating on Apache 2.4.37, PHP 7.0.33 and MySQL 5.6.41. There are currently 7 cPanel accounts set up for 8 websites. One is a single page, hard-coded HTML site, 7 use WordPress and one of those also uses XenForo.

I know too little about server technology and want more than generic server tweaking. I'd like to make contact with trusted techs you recommend and see if I can get estimates. Thank you for any recommendations you would like to offer.

Jim
PS: I tried to create this topic in the server forum, but every time I clicked the Create Thread button, nothing happened.

 

[cheat_master30]

Well, since you said you wanted it posted in the servers forum, I've just moved it there. Hopefully you get some better answers than you would in the previous location.

 

[maksim]

For server tweaking a good place to start is your hosting company. I had them go through and do a security audit and beef up vulnerabilities. To that, looked eat where our traffic was coming from and blocked a lot of troublesome traffic which had nothing to do with our forum, namely Ukraine and china.

 

[Steve]

I am considering hiring someone to optimize my dedicated (KnownHost managed) server. It's running CENTOS 7.6 standard v74.0.12 with 8 Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz processors, 16GB RAM. Operating on Apache 2.4.37, PHP 7.0.33 and MySQL 5.6.41. There are currently 7 cPanel accounts set up for 8 websites. One is a single page, hard-coded HTML site, 7 use WordPress and one of those also uses XenForo.

I know too little about server technology and want more than generic server tweaking. I'd like to make contact with trusted techs you recommend and see if I can get estimates. Thank you for any recommendations you would like to offer.

Jim
PS: I tried to create this topic in the server forum, but every time I clicked the Create Thread button, nothing happened.

I would suggest contacting MattW , definitely knows his way around a server.

 

[Alpha1]

Choose a hosting company that specializes in your forum software and is used to deal with big boards. MattW is highly recommended.

 

[bilbo baggins]

Isn't the 7700 processor more for desktop/consumer uses? A big advantage in my opinion would be to use something with ECC memory as they're supposed to be more reliable than machine without, I would look for something that uses Xeon or Epyc processors that use ECC memory.