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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 1043

Determine limits of a server

I use a root server with following specs:

120GB RAM
24 virtual cores
1.5TB HDD

This server runs one Wordpress blog. No particularly heavy plugins are being used.

During highest traffic period (Sunday evening) Google Analytics realtime stats show 100 users online.

phpMyAdmin stats show during such period:

CPU usage: 15%
RAM usage: 16GB (104GB free)

This (still low) traffic causes the server to load pages twice as slow and its rather difficult to determine whether its a hardware limitation or poor software optimization.

Generally speaking, what traffic should such server be able to manage while running Wordpress?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (1)

onerockscott
onerockscott

Reputation: 356

What you have described seems adequate.

I have found that sometimes a single poorly written plugin will slow a website down and bog down a server. Can you eliminate any plugins that aren't needed or disable one plugin at a time to see if performance improves?

Are you using any form of caching, like W3 Total Cache? This will likely help things out as well.

Upvotes: 1

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