Hosting

[AmberMoon]

Just out of curiosity if anyone knows which hosting service RFD uses and what kind of traffic is used. Also any good reliable heavy duty hosting services about anyone can recommend and which sites are hosted on them to checkup on

Looking for high volume and reliability looking at a site with such traffic as 2,000-3,000 users at any given time and little to no hiccups

[wheel]

www.prioritycolo.com

They're hosted in toronto at 151 front street which is nice. I've given there lines a kicking both ways without a blink. I've run a forum with 1000+ simultaneous users all hitting their refresh keys all day long without it blinking(*). And I've run crawls on some web stuff I do that run at 40mgbits sustained, also without blinking (translation, that's a huge pipe. 2000-3000 users won't use anywhere near 40megabits sustained).

The real problem you need to be concerned about with that level of traffic is your server and coding though. That's likely to be where your problems are, assuming you've actually got that level of users and aren't just an optimist :).

(*)I ran a forum for some students. When marks were released they'd head to my site since the other sites that showed their marks usually went offline due to the load. My site generally stayed up. The students logged onto the forum in the morning and would then sit there and hit refresh until they saw the marks. Some even ran scripts to autorefresh the page. So the load was more like many many times the actual number of visitors.

That being said, any 'real' datacenter where you would colocate a server won't have an issue with what you've got - it's not that big of a deal these days. Peer 1 in toronto is another place like prioritycolo. Stay away from secondary hosting operations that are either not in a large datacenter or are prone to putting multiple sites on a server. I assume you're looking at colocation and not just hosting?

[IronMac]

Best to send an email to Derek or Ryan about that, though, they will probably chime in this morning. :)

I've heard good things about Pair (http://www.pair.com) in the US from other people who use them for commercial purposes.

[AmberMoon]

Thank you kindly for the information I appreciate it. Hopefully Ryan and them will provide the information since we know that on average I dont think i have seen RFDs go down in my 4+ years here

[omagedon]

Its been down about 6+ times in the years I been here and present. If you don't frequent the site much it won't seem like its down most hosting companies are always 99.9 percent up time..

[Rehan]

Ryan posted some details at http://www.redflagdeals.com/deals/main.php/weblog/comments/19612/

Back in 2005 they were on 7 dual xeon servers serving 1000 GB per month. :| They have a rack in a datacenter in Toronto.