Posted by bensoi on July 9, 2012 at 3:19am
Hi all!
I'll be building a state-wide real estate site and I don't have any idea how big the data archive for this. Well, I ran a test site, imported MLS listing for one real estate property and it was able to pull a record of more than 100k items. Any advice from the experts of which of the server options should I avail for this project? I appreciate your quick response. ;)
These are my options.
http://www.integrityhost.com/order.htm#8
http://www.singlehop.com/server-hosting/dedicated-servers/
Categories: mls listing, Real Estate
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Data Size
HI Zee -
I hope I got the question right.
I have two real estate sites. Each of them uses a different form of syndication, (RETS, XML). On one site I save all data on, the other I delete sold listings and the associated images. So I'll give you the stats for the latter one, (30,000 listings, 35Gig storage).
I use the image module for images which might not be the most efficient for storage since it creates all the sizes. The imagecache module might serve you better, (I really don't know). I used the image module so I could build the image derivatives at night and would have the images ready to go. Additionally I wanted to name the images by the MLS ID for search engine reasons.
I can tell you that my program would not run well on a basic shared host plan. It needs a little more horsepower than that, (I'm getting load times between 1.5 - 3 seconds).
Those who will not reason, are bigots.
Those who can not, are fools.
Those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
You're going to want at least
You're going to want at least 256 (512 is ideal) memory for PHP. Cheap VPS won't really cut it.
bkelly and kevinquillen,
bkelly and kevinquillen, thanks! availed server last week with specs higher than the min requirements you implied. :)