Do you choose a virtual host or a stand-alone server for your site?

If everyone and I have a few tens of thousands of IP stations, it must be considered the use of virtual host or stand-alone server.

I currently have 3 10,000 IP stations, are still used by the virtual host.

We all know that the price of a virtual host is cheaper than a stand-alone server, from a cost-saving point of view, I chose the virtual host.

Now it seems that dual core +2g memory +15m broadband +xxg hard drive, renting one such server is estimated to be 7000/year.

However, it only takes hundreds of yuan to rent a 1G space on such a server.

There are some disadvantages to choosing a virtual host, especially when the traffic is not guaranteed during peak hours, 20:00--22:00 I put on a Web site on a virtual host will often suspend service. At the same time, the virtual host can not meet the requirements of all programs, such as on the Windows operating system based on virtual hosts, generally do not support the Discuz forum pseudo Static. Simply put, the virtual host is not able to withstand peak traffic times, while there are restrictions on server permissions and build installation.

I also wanted to use a stand-alone server, I think, most webmaster and I like, IP tens of thousands of when the monthly website revenue will not be less than 5000 bar, It's nothing to rent a server for 2 months. Renting a server can have all the permissions on the server, support most programs, a server that says hardware configuration above, should be able to support 300,000 pv/days, Translation down is nearly 80,000 IP bar. There are a lot of friends who use this server to tell me that the CPU and memory usage of the standalone server is basically not to 100%, but the bandwidth is not enough.

Server Leasing In addition to the relatively large investment point, there are some bad aspects, such as the security of the server, when you buy a virtual host, server security is done by the virtual host provider, leased the server after the server security will have to do their own, some friends to ordinary attacks can not withstand, So security is one of the biggest pitfalls. Server CPU, memory, hard drive, broadband if a large number of idle is also a waste of resources. Waste money.

Indeed, the choice of virtual host or stand-alone server, can not rely on the number of daily IP to measure

The time distribution of IP/PV is a very important problem, there are a lot of stations in 6:00-11:00 traffic only equal to the 20:00-22:00 one-tenth, You need to balance this when buying a virtual host. The spatial distribution of guest IP I feel more like asking us to select the location of the server or the computer room where the virtual host is located. For example, choose Beijing Netcom or Shanghai Telecom.

Overall, I would like to give you some advice, if the amount of Web site traffic can be borne by the virtual host, there is no need to lease the server.

Of course, at present, few virtual hosts can normally support more than 30,000 of IP, so when your IP over 30,000, you can rent a stand-alone server.

PS: Personally think that the site selected server or virtual host, should not be measured by IP, PV is actually a more important indicator.