Hi,

I'm currently hosting 2 JSP sites on Lunarpages shared environment (uses Resin 2.x). As I regurarly get:

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

... for eg 10 minutes I'm wondering if a move to VPS hosting would make these downtimes go away (the downtimes are always for the Resin server, not my phpBB forum)

I'm also wondering about the speed of the VPS hosting (my site uses JSP - MySQL and Resin JDBC connectionpooling for the datasource)

If someone can share some experiences that would be great

Thanks,
Wim

Ask them for your average CPU usage. You're allowed up to 4% on the VPS. I'm running a medium sized phpbb board and I don't use over .1 to .3% average.

Although, I was forced to switch to a VPS because I was being told I was using up to 2% of the CPU on average from my old shared account. I don't get near 2% on the VPS so I feel slightly tricked.

Other than that, I love the VPS option. I bet it would do fine for your site.

Hi,

Thanks for the info already given. I find it a bit strange that a cheaper shared account with JSP/Resin would be more suited then a VPS option where you should have less people on the server, thus more resources (cpu&mem) available 

I'm currently averaging around 3000-4000 unique visitors a day ... I don't know if that is very active or not

From the KB: "Each VPS limited by 512 Megabytes of RAM and gets guaranteed 1/25th of total processors power. However, if the processors are not busy, the account can use some more CPU resources."

On first sight 512MB should be more then enough for me, my JSPs/Javas are not memory intensive as almost nothing is stored in the session. For PHP (eg. phpBB2) I don't know what the memory requirements are; but I guess it's less resource intensive.

Wim