Technical Requirements for Lowest Unique Bid Auction
Lowest unique auction software, highest unique bid auction software, penny auction software and reverse auction software create significant load on underlying DB infrastructure.
It’s essential to select a hosting provider that will be capable of giving stable support for the emergency situations experienced with high load websites.
The most critical times are during the few hours before the auction ends. It would be correct to say that each user will create hundreds of DB queries during this time, especially in the last minute.
Some users constantly check the results, refreshing the pages many times per minute, thus creating a permanent solid load on the server.
While our software is optimized to handle a very big load, server speed and location might also affect the performance.
Technical Requirements
PHP 5.0
SSH access, Cron job. CPanel recommended
MySQL 5.0 recommended
Dedicated server, Intel Xeon, with 4 GB of memory recommended.
| Visitors | Users | Bids, daily | |
| VPS + 2 GB of memory | Up to 5000 | Up to 1000 | Up to 10,000 |
| Dedicated + 4 GB of memory | Up to 10,000 | Up to 5000 | *Up to 50,000 |
*Requires Enterprise version.
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Liquid Web provides excellent hosting services for our clients in USA
While you can start with a more modest configuration, for example shared hosting, it will be limited to a few thousands visitors only.
What will happen if I run out of resources? Will my lowest unique bid auction stop?
No, it will not stop. The first sign that you have a problem with hardware resources is the speed – your server becomes slow. If the number of users had not grown significantly, it might be a sign of something going wrong and you can ask us to have a look into your configuration – on VPS and Dedicated servers.
Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to check the situation if you still located on shared hosting due to the nature of this program.
