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Hey Everyone,
I'm looking to build a WPMU instance for a network of sites. Currently we are trafficking about 20,000 hits per month and averaging about 1.5 page views per user. I'm looking into better options for the web server/hosting as we are going on CNN/CNBC in the near future and need the right amount of bandwidth and a server that can expand easily (also will be deploying additional sites in the future) like a cloud (worried about cost). As of right now we're using linode/linux/opensuse 4GB RAM 8CPU 192GB storage which has so far been working, but its a lot of maintenance and causes downtime during. Does anyone have cloud experience (ie. google...) and if so, what are your thoughts about cost and other issues?
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It is going to be difficult because fully managed will be expensive. If you still want to go self managed, but a better performing partner with less cost RamNode is fantastic. They often run coupons for 40 or 30% off for life.
If you couple that with a good CDN partner you may well meet your performance needs. MaxCDN can be very reasonable.
The typical cloud servers don't perform as well as linode VPS or RamNode, but they will scale well so something like AWS or whatnot can help you get through your traffic surge but to scale permanently with similar performance to VPS is quite expensive.
The nice thing with some Cloud providers is use as you go, so you'll only incur the cost during your traffic surge. CloudFlare will help as well, although there are debates about the impact to TTFB (time to first byte) and SSL will be an issue (with both a CDN and CloudFlare) if you do SSL it can be very costly.
One nice benefit to CloudFlare is to offload your minification to their cloud, so that is good. Incapsula is also an alternative.
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