I would also say at least 2 cores and 4GB RAM. We have many clients that try to run 1 core with bare minimum RAM and their VPS does not run well. Especially when it's magento or opencart.
Jason Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Kevin Fries <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1 core, 2 cores, 2GB RAM, 4GB RAM, the question is only relevant if you have > no expandability. Select your software, take its recommendation, and > probably a little more, then make sure you can grow as needed. > > Here is an example. > > Let's say you go to AWS, get a server that is large enough to handle Magento. > Your up, and in business. Now, business is good. Get another instance and > split off your database. Business continues to grow, and you need a bigger > Megento instance. No problem, snapshot your store, build a bigger instance, > move your elastic IP, and retire your old one. > > As long as you have the ability to grow, just worry about getting something > that gets you in the game. > > Kevin > >> On Sep 8, 2015 2:06 PM, "Keith Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am wondering what your opinion is on cores and RAM when using a VPS. >> >> I am thinking about this in the context of Drupal and Magento, both of who >> are resource hogs. >> >> I was told more RAM is much more valuable on a VPS than is the number of >> cores. >> >> I'm assuming 4G of RAM is enough to not go into swap. I'm thinking this >> should be fine for a production site with moderate traffic running either >> Drupal or Magento. >> >> As you know more cores means more money when it comes to VPS servers, while >> RAM is cheap. >> >> Of course we know opcode cache, varnish, and memcache(d) can work wonders in >> speeding up websites. For this discussion lets assume we are using none of >> them. >> >> The question is, will a second core make all that much difference if enough >> RAM is present to not use swap? How would I know I need a second core - >> look at the load? >> >> And is there other consideration or things I should be looking at? >> >> Thank you very much for all your feedback!! >> >> Keith >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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