How Many vB Installs on this Server?

I don't know if this can be answered but I'm asking anyway...

How many vBulletin + vBSRO installs could run on a LiquidWeb VBS server with the following configuration:

40 Gigabytes Storage
350 GB's Transfer
512MB guaranteed, 2048MB Burstable RAM
Dual Opteron CPU

Depends on how successful your forums are. If they're extremely successful, one is enough to eat all your resource; while on the other hand if you have them all behind password protected htaccess and no one knows the password, it'd be as many as your hd can take...

Well, I'm on a shared server now and I can't believe that I have access to 512MB and it runs okay (it's small).

You can install as many as your harddrive can hold; but how well it preforms depends on how many visitors access them (CPU+RAM), how image intensive/big the attachments are (bandwidth+space) as well as how much time you are willing to let your visitor waite (IE: how long are you willing to let CPU work none stop to serve your visitors the page)

I own a single forum on 3gig ram with dual / dual opteron and it eats my resources so bad.

Wow, really? What is the reason for that? The number of people on the board at one time or how big the database is?

What is about the max server load (as reported by vB) that is acceptable?

Jelsoft's default installation suggests that load average above 5 should flag a server busy error.

Edit: oops, forgot to mention, this setting si configurable in Admin CP / vBulletin Options on your location.

I don't know what is going on with hosts these days. I'm going on 60 hours for them to set me up.

I've used them before, otherwise I'd be running away from them salting the land as I escaped.

I'll give them a few more hours and then they make my "enemies list".

Originally Posted by MentaL

I own a single forum on 3gig ram with dual / dual opteron and it eats my resources so bad.

I feel ya, my sites starting to kill the dual dual woodcrests with 4gb of ram :$$$:

Originally Posted by majordude

I don't know if this can be answered but I'm asking anyway...

How many vBulletin + vBSRO installs could run on a LiquidWeb VBS server with the following configuration:

40 Gigabytes Storage
350 GB's Transfer
512MB guaranteed, 2048MB Burstable RAM
Dual Opteron CPU

Personally, I would chose a smaller machine with a TON of memory, if I want to balance my budget.
Minimum is 2GB of RAM, but 4GB is a MUST. I did not get it from your post... you will get 512MB or 2GB of RAM?
512MB is really BAD, it will kill your server in no time, you you get hot.

It's a VPS. Resources are allocated with burstable resources available based upon availability/need.

I didn't enjoy my time on VPSes. You're almost paying for a dedicated, and only really gaining root access over a shared account.

The VPS model is an overseller's dream. Burstable is NOT guaranteed, and if you do the math, they will really have to watch the number of clients per machine if everyone gets 512 MB RAM base.

Well, I'll let you all know how it goes. I got it and will move my site over there tonight or tomorrow.

I'm having 0 problems on my dual opteron 270 machine with 2gb of ram. i use about 40% with less than 1 server load averages, even at peak times.
serving about 60,000 pages a day between all the sites i have on it.