What do you think this server could deal with for visiters?

[MMeffert]

What do you think this server could deal with for visiters? Number of visiters on the site at the same time? 800Mhz Intel Celeron, 640MB of RAM, Western Digital Hard drive 7200RPM, 100MB network card, 512kb upload, 1.5mb download

It runs apache, email, mysql, runs a PHP form, and some html pages

[Soulwatcher]

MMeffert I moved your post to its own thread.

I would guess depend on the type of website it is, you could have 15+ visitors on a forum like this. Once the users downloaded the graphics, your server would only be sending raw data. You are going to run out of bandwidth before you stress the server.

What type of website are you planning on making?

[Durinthiam]

I'd have to agree with SoulWatcher, your bandwidth will be gone in a flash if the site is graphic intesnive/has downloads. Your line is designed for home use only by the looks of it.

[MMeffert]

I use it just to host my sit because I want all the resourses for my site. The site has no downloadable files but it does have some graphics for the template. I wanted to know what you thought it could hold because once I get about 3-4 people on the forums at the same time it starts to have some errors. Any suggestions? If seeing the site would help estimate the load it can take the site is www.MitchellMeffert.com

[Soulwatcher]

I took a look at your forums and 3 people were on the forums. Every thing seems ok to me. I even did a few searches and it was fine. What type of errors are you getting?

P.S. Your website is nice and speedy.

[MMeffert]

Ok. Some people tell me it is speedy so I guess I should believe them. I just visit my site and never think it is fast enough. I guess sense I have moved from windows I have not got enough people on there at one time to see if I still have the errors. By switching to linux it may have fixed it. The other day there were 15 guests on there but I think it was a search engine because all the IP addresses were very close to each other. What do you think about the forums? Are the forums going to use alot of bandwidth? I know you said before that the connection would be the bottleneck so I do not think the server should have any problem doing the Mysql inserting and stuff.

We were not really getting errors it was just that it would timeout or just not bring up a page because it could not keep up.

[Soulwatcher]

I am pretty sure that phpBB uses allot of bandwidth. But I am not a phpBB expert. I still would think your good for 15+ users. If your really concerned about your bandwidth you could optimize your images ect.

[MMeffert]

I am not using PHPbb. I am using Simple Machine Forums. It looks and works a lot better then phpbb.

[Soulwatcher]

I am sorry I thought you were using phpBB, I visit about 20 forums a day. And lately I have been doing allot of promoting of this website. I got your forum mixed up with another forum. Your right SMF is allot better than phpBB.

[MMeffert]

You also said optimize the images. How would I go about doing that with out them looking really bad? I have heard of doing it but every time I try they turn out looking really grainy and bad. How would you suggest I do it?