Forum host upgrade - proposal

[Robert Marko]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 at 17:54, Ted Hess <thess at kitschensync.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> Those of you who visit the forum have probably noticed its, sometimes
> extreme, sluggishness over the last several months. Since April, I have
> worked on and applied a number of attempts at tuning, cleanup and
> storage re-arrangement to try and alleviate these issues. As best as I
> can determine, we have have just simply exceeded the capacity of the
> current Droplet CPU and RAM. To upgrade to a system with 2X CPU/RAM
> (4vCPU/8GB -> 8vCPU/16GB) will increase cost from $48/mo to $96-112/mo.
> The difference in cost is a "Regular Intel" vs "Premium Intel"
> processors. The Premium (latest Xeon) option will provide enhanced NVMe
> SSDs which would improve DB performance (a bit). I think it would be
> worth $112/mo for maximal impact on the responsiveness of the forum. AMD
> vs Intel - cost is the same. AMD may be slightly higher GHz.
>
> Are there any objections / reasons why we shouldn't go ahead and do the
> upgrade. There are a couple of methods available however, the down-time
> will probably be 1-3hrs. if no problems. This isn't the first system
> upgrade we have done, so I expect no issues.
>
> If any of you wish to see some of the forum performance stats, I can
> post another message with numbers and personal observations. A quick
> overview of what our daily forum activity looks like:
>
> * Serving 120-160K page views. (about 25% attributed to crawlers - a
> different discussion)
> * 6-8K mail messages generated
> * ~1100 User visits (signed-in)
> * ~200 engaged users (liked or posted)
> * ~500 new posts
>
> Footnote on bandwidth usage... (DO charges bandwidth on aggregate
> Droplet use)
> Proposed Droplet upgrade will add 3TB to our total.
> I don't have per-Droplet stats, but last month we transmitted ~29TB of
> our 25TB allowance. A $40 overage cost.

Hi Ted,
I am for upgrading the droplet as forum is probably the main point of
interaction
in the OpenWrt community.

But, like others pointed out, we maybe should look for a more affordable host
then DO as they are quite expensive.

Regards,
Robert
>
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