Noob question about PPV traffic

MoobSpray

MoobSpray

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Hey guys,

lately, I've been having a problem with receiving impressions from PPV traffic. This hasn't been a problem in the past but right now my volume has been approaching 100k visitors a day. Ex: I purchase 100k worth of impressions but my server only receives 50k (according to webalizer).

Now, I have a dedicated server that should handle 100k visitors to a static page no problem but I have a theory that the PPV networks I buy traffic from might be sending the traffic in "bursts" that are too much for the server to handle (thus the server rejecting connections every time I receive a surge of visitors).

Would getting a load balancer and 1 or 2 extra servers rectify this problem? This might sound like a dumb question but I'm not that much of a technical guy compared to alot of people on this forum. Wouldn't hurt to get some feedback about this from the tech guys.

thanks
 


It's a Dual Xeon E5504 Quad Core running on Centos5 64 bit. Also i'm using apache.

I'm with liquidweb so it's a pretty decent server.
 
Even in bursts I would think you'd be able to handle that load - 100k in a day isn't that much. Having said that, IF your problem is bursty traffic, putting in a load balancer with a second box behind it would address it. Would your host let you pay for a trial with 2 boxes and a balancer?

*edit* Just saw you say it's static. There's no way a dedicated box is having problems with that load on static pages.
 
How much memory do you have? If you don't have enough RAM, then bursts of traffic could be causing your problem. Since you're on LiquidWeb, go into your PIMs area and click on Technical Support --> Sonar Server Health --> Physical Memory if you see any red spots in that graph, your hitting your memory limit and there's the problem. Just have them install more memory to alleviate the issue. More RAM will cost you less than a second server + load balancer
 
SEO_Mike said:
How much memory do you have? If you don't have enough RAM, then bursts of traffic could be causing your problem. Since you're on LiquidWeb, go into your PIMs area and click on Technical Support --> Sonar Server Health --> Physical Memory if you see any red spots in that graph, your hitting your memory limit and there's the problem. Just have them install more memory to alleviate the issue. More RAM will cost you less than a second server + load balancer
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Wow, thanks for that tip. There are a few red spots in the graph. My server has 2gb of ram but it seems that isn't enough to keep up with the bursts of traffic.

Repped
 
Yeah, you need a lot more memory than 2 GB. Bump it to 8 GB minimum and make sure they have your Apache error files set to dump on a daily basis, not weekly.
 
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