There are a lot of variables that go into how many hits and visits a virtual server can handle; from how efficient the site’s code is, to how beefy the host server is, to how over-sold the host server is (among other things.) Regardless, I still thought you might be interested in seeing some real numbers from a popular web site that we host on a virtual server:
| Month | Total Visitors | Visitors per Day | Unique Visitors | Unique Ratio | Pages | Hits | BW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | 285,598 | 9,519.9 | 183,722 | 64% | 3,521,151 | 31,729,312 | 1,149.2G |
In April, on a 4GB RAM virtual server, this site served pages to 285,000 visitors and had 31.7 million hits.
Breaking this down further we might assume that a similarly coded web application could handle about 70,000 visitors on a 1GB RAM ($39.95 per month) virtual server and about 35,000 visitors on a 512MB RAM ($19.95 per month) Brownrice virtual server.