Topic: Web hosting on SME

[jameswilson]

Seen as im such a fan i have a few sites on sme that have now become quite busy.

im only worried about 2 of them, and wonder if i should be.

One is a 3 processor guest on a xen server. The other is a 2 processor on bear metal.

I have had to use the php mod to get php5 (cgi) on the one (3 proc) as the forum software needs php5 minimum.

Im getting .5ish page gen times, and it seems the eaccelrator contrib cant be used on the php5 ibay. Im not brave enough to upgrade it to sme8 as yet, but beleive this would drastically reduce the page gen times as it would be native php?

Or should i be looking for another solution and just use sme for the db work?

James

[cactus]

It is hard to say what the problem might be. Did you already analyze processor and memory usage when this happens? Personally I would not be to worried on page loading times of half a second...

What forum software do you use?

[jameswilson]

its not a problem as such, load never goes above 1 and id assume (if i understand load correctly i neednt even begin to worry until its above 3

its IPB 3, but on the same sme virtual machine i have an smf forum that has page gen times of 0.01-0.02. I assume thats cos its native php and cached.
Is there a performance loss using php5 as cgi?

By the sounds of it im owrrying over nowt and sme is performing as usual admirably.

[davelister]

I can highly recommend upgrading to SME8 while it may be beta. I haven't found anything beta about it! They blokes behind the development have done an GREAT job.

I host about 50 non profit organisations on SME8.05 and the only thing that I would like to change is the way users ftp into the server to update ibays. Users login to their home directory. I used to use a contrib on SME7 which allowed me to change the default ftp login directory to a ibay instead.