VPS - Upgrade or new?
Hey guys,
Hopefully Sven will comment since he'd be most in-the-know on this subject.
I've got about 6 campaigns (groups) running with on average around 14-15 projects for each one. There are so many projects because I've split them up into types, such as articles, comments, directory etc. This way it's easy to identify which link types are not performing and can adjust accordingly. My submissions per project per day is fairly low for each at around 15. This approach, however, seems to labour GSA a lot more... (right?)
My VPS is 2 core 2GB with PowerUP. Apart from SER, I'm running CS, GSA Indexer and SE Nuke. SE Nuke for the most part is idle until it triggers its schedule. GSA SER runs all the time though, and my CPU usage is at 90-100% non-stop while my total memory usage sits at around 90% total as well. I'm running SER at 50 threads at the moment.
I've considered lowering the number of running projects by joining a few of them together in an effort to reduce load. So, my question is, should I:
Hopefully Sven will comment since he'd be most in-the-know on this subject.
I've got about 6 campaigns (groups) running with on average around 14-15 projects for each one. There are so many projects because I've split them up into types, such as articles, comments, directory etc. This way it's easy to identify which link types are not performing and can adjust accordingly. My submissions per project per day is fairly low for each at around 15. This approach, however, seems to labour GSA a lot more... (right?)
My VPS is 2 core 2GB with PowerUP. Apart from SER, I'm running CS, GSA Indexer and SE Nuke. SE Nuke for the most part is idle until it triggers its schedule. GSA SER runs all the time though, and my CPU usage is at 90-100% non-stop while my total memory usage sits at around 90% total as well. I'm running SER at 50 threads at the moment.
I've considered lowering the number of running projects by joining a few of them together in an effort to reduce load. So, my question is, should I:
- upgrade my VPS to, say, 4 Core 4gb RAM (I recall Sven mentioning that SER only references 2gb of RAM, so if I upgrade I should have at least 2gb available for everything else, but I'm really not sure what to expect in terms of CPU load?) or
- am I better off getting another VPS (same size) and putting GSA on that on to run on its own together with CS and Indexer?
Comments
Ultimately I'm wondering if I should be running GSA on its own on smallish VPS servers and everything else on a separate server, or if I can get away with getting a bigger VPS/dedi package and be able to run everything I need to off of it, including other tools like scrapebox, rank checkers etc...?
I don't know if this is possible, but have you tried contacting powerhosting support, pretty sure they can migrate your VM to a better vps ou dedi for like a day just for testing purposes (like the trial you had), so you can evaluate if that would be enough power for your specific case; seems like a win-win situation, if you are happy you migrate, if not you know you need to tweak up your settings, or lookout for other solutions.
@Sven - I totally overlloked the scheduler! Ok I'll play with it and see if it helps things. Thanks!
You can find more info on that in this thread