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VPS resources needed for 3 domains w/ Wordpress
tomahawkeer
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in Help
The title kind of says it. I currently have a small VPS (1 CPU 256M Ram 10gig SSD HD and 250GB transfer) running debian / apache. All sites are currently brand new / extremely low on traffic. How well will this VPS run all 3 at once?
I am going to try my hand at affiliate marketing so it may be a while before I can get some decent traffic to any of them. Also, I will mainly be focusing on only 1 of them for the next few months to get content created on it. The 2nd will be strictly a testing domain for, testing things out, and basically wont ever be published. The 3rd is on the back burner until the 1st is up and running.
Thoughts? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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That really depends on your traffic and how well optimized your webstack configuration is.
Also there are some plugins that will just make your php5-fpm(if you're using that) go crazy.
Mysql can also have some crazed minutes on your server. plus mysql with default config and innodb and performance schema, they can eat your ram like crazy.
Take a look at this thread for mysql http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/66101/webstacks-that-run-on-les-servers#latest. Also if you can, use nginx, mariadb and php5-fpm instead of apache.
Thread digest:
Bigger Box 4 The Sake Of Bigger Boxes people: You can't even run one wordpress with that amount of ram, you should bump it atleast to 512MB
nginx is better people: You should change Apache to nginx and you could handle this three wordpress install for a long time
lighttp is better than nginx people: lighttp is better than nginx and can easily handle all this
Optimization people: you can run all this with half of the ram, just some minor tweaks in conf.
@EkaatyLinux: If you're not using rewrite you should try Monkey
I feel alone on the bottom of that list...
On the plus side you were the only one I remembered by name :P
upgrade to 512MB ram and install Kloxo-MR control panel, it's the easy way i though
Is memory usage the biggest difference between the two? Sorry just not very familiar with nginx or lighttp, while I have used apache on several occasions in the past.
FYI I did upgrade to a 1 gig of ram package for this VPS, however I am interested in getting a better bang for the buck in regards to performance, especially if I have to start adding a lot more wordpress sites to this box in the not too distant future.
I ran about 8 new wordpress driven websites on a 256MB VPS back in the day, till a couple of sites started getting a decent amount of traffic.
However, I spent a good deal of time tweaking the system, and relied heavily on caching SQL queries and pages to reduce stress on the server for page requests.
So, yes. You can certainly run 3, as long as you install only the absolute essentials, and monitor / tweak LEMP stack and cache generously.