Importance of CPU?

[purg]

Guess this was the best place as it could be deemed a newbie question!

My VPS will expire in 6 days but found an alternative being a baby dedicated server with Leaseweb -
Express Server 2

Problem is that I dont know how important the CPU is for webhosting. Sure its not going to handle a million consecutive users but would it handle a handful of websites?
The two main sites dailydomain /co.uk & expiring /org.uk have 200 & 300 unique hits a day with mysql ~100Mb database each. Ive also got a couple of forums both having about 1000 users.

Please help on either the webhosting issue and or leaseweb dedicated servers.

Cheers
Darren

 

[monaghan]

If your site is efficiently coded, then IO is generally the main bottleneck. If you use mod_gzip, then or SSL then you'll add a bit of CPU overhead. A faster CPU will just get back to doing nothing quicker.

If the 2/300 hits are spread over the 24 hour day, then this should be virtually no loading.

£40/month seems very cheap for a server though, I'd check the small print.

 

[Craig]

What exactly do you have at the moment purg, in terms of VPS spec and why are you looking to upgrade/move away? Have you out grown it or are there some other reasons?
Spec seems fine but it depends on what you have at the moment to what you are expecting from the new provider.

 

[purg]

The main reason would be money or my total lack of.

VPS now is with SLHost cost ~$400/year and is to expire v.v.soon
a good cheap VPS but does suffer from slowdown.
(Dual Core Dual Xeon Woodcrest Processors blar.blar blar)
Guaranteed RAM 384Mb

For about the same money the dedi I found gives 15x disk storage which to be honest I dont need but a useful x3 memory and bandwidth, payoff being a small CPU.

 

[monaghan]

A VPS will often have better IO as the system will probably have a large RAID system to provide lots of disk space the VPS hosts, this may be better for a database driven site, however, you do have to share the resources with other customers.

I guess the call you need to make is how your use will be catered for by both systems.