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Originally Posted by kush
Here's some useful questions...
With dedicated servers, how do you know when you need hardware upgrades? How to differentiate server speed vs speed of your network's bandwidth?
How do you know the difference between needing more RAM, or maybe a faster processor?
What percent of memory do you want free during peak or average usage times?
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Slow sites = memory upgrade...it's almost certain not to be the network unless you're using some two bit host.
As for processor, I don't know ... but my general rule of thumb is to double RAM one and then if your sites slow, upgrade to a better server. I don't even know if that's the right thing to do but it works great for me.
For the third question, I don't know ... but your sites should be fast.
Use webwait.com. If your site takes more than 3 seconds to load then it's too slow and you may be losing surfers. If you're running a blog and it's slow, kill plugins and it will drastically improve. I got a blog down from 7 to 2 by doing that. 3 seconds is the worst you want, try to keep it under 2 seconds. It it totally possible to get it under 1 second but you're typically not going to lose surfers if it's under 3.