OK, let me just say this.....I'm not here to bash PHPCOW, argue with you, etc.
I am here to help people using PHPCOW, to help people get their issues taken care of, to help people get the most out of their installation.
If you have something constructive to add....like your experiences, thats fine, but lets not turn this into what happened at Digital Point Forums.
That's precisely why i signed up here -- to help. DP wasn't definitely me as we are a company with staff of 15 on the web related division.
Cheers
Good, and thats the end of that.....lets focus on helping people get the most out of PHPCOW. I'd still very much like to see some representation from them here.
I doubt they would have the time for attending to third party forums on net.
We've been through all kinds of servers.....virtual dedicated, dedicated. Right now we have a Dual Xeon system with 2x250GB HDD and 4GB DDR2-667 RAM....which isn't cheap.
As far as traffic, we have about 160K uniques a month, with our bandwidth right around 95-100GB a month.
I think your admin doesn't know what they are doing then. We run (when I get back up online) with a Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz system with 10 gigs of ram, and 3 TB RAID and we're able to run cow in a VMWare session with the Mysql loaded in the same session, etc... We're doing a lot more than that in traffic (guessing because of the traffic neilsen is reporting we have, I don't have any analytics up, but neilsen is reporting us in the millions monthly) and the VMware session is using 1 cpu and 512 megs of ram.
Sounds like phpcowfreaks could probably tweak your box for you, it is my understanding that is what he does 