Can somebody tell me how much traffic a linode 1 GB can withstand?
Consider it is configured properly and tuned for best performance.

Answer in number of visitors as seen in Google Analytics Realtime view, would be better for me to understand and compare.

Thanks.

It depends entirely on the site; there is no correct answer to your question. Is it static or dynamic? If static, is it pure HTML, heavily image-based, does it use flash? If dynamic, what technologies is it using? Is there a database involved? How code/database-heavy is it?

Please consider the site as a dynamic one created with wordpress with an ultra light theme without any graphics and the content of the site is purely text based. No images/flash objects/etc.

Only a single Google Ad below the header is used.

Please help me to choose right answer.

Visits as seen from Google Analytics Realtime data:

1. Less than 150
2. 150 to 450
3. 450 to 750
4. Above 750

aicbal,
Since I'm not familiar with 'Google Analytics Realtime data' (we use different software to measure site activity) I don't know if those are concurrent visitors, visitors per hour or visitors per day.

Please keep this in mind when choosing your Linode: you can always re-size your Linode without having to set up a new one. All you do is choose a larger or smaller size from your Linode Manager and Linode does all the work for you auto-magically. Depending on the size of your Linode you will be down for a little while (though not long), and when your Linode reboots you'll be running on the re-sized Linode.

If you're not sure that you need a larger Linode, pick a 1GB VPS to start with and pay attention to the CPU & RAM usage. The easiest way to keep track of your Linode's resource usage is Longview so be sure to choose a 64-bit OS (Longview doesn't run on 32-bit OSs). If you think a 1GB might not be enough for your traffic then start off with a 2GB VPS and re-size it down if it turns out to be too large for your needs.


MSJ

Where'd you read this? Longview works just fine on a 32-bit OS. I would guess at least 50% of Linode's deployments are probably 32 bit. Unless you have a good reason to run 64-bit (eg large database, Mongo, etc) 32-bit will work just fine—that's what Linode recommends as well.

If you're worried about traffic, one thing you can do is make sure you do some basic performance tuning right off the bat. Running W3 Total Cache in WordPress makes a big difference. Also If you're going to run the usual LAMP stack, I'd recommend PHP-FPM with Apache's Worker MPM. Ever since I switched to that setup, I've noticed a nice boost in speed to my sites, especially when it comes to first byte, etc. since you're not firing up PHP every time Apache runs. (You can also do NGINX but I 'm old school when it comes to Apache.)

Most of the wiki has been abandoned for years. Linode currently recommends 64-bit. (See the "Deploy a Linux distribution" page in the manager.)

It doesn't especially matter either way, though.

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A 1GB Linode can handle quite a bit more traffic then the now defunct 512MB Linode, but not as much traffic as a 2GB Linode.

Hope that clears things up - since asking a really vague question with 37 bazillion variables is really hard to answer (took several trips to WolframAlpha to generate my first answer).

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The original Longview documentation and support info stated that it only ran on 64-bit implementations. I'm happy to see that it runs on 32-bit so I can use it on our CentOS 5 32-bit VPS.


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