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depends what you consider low traffic?
Are they sql based or static sites?
But yes that is easily done. Just follow what most of the regular members here suggest:
If your running static sites, its actually more going to depend on bandwidth then RAM.
But you should get away with running 25 dynamic sites on 512MB, I don't see a reason why it couldn't.
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/
Should be able to run ~10x that on ~10 RAM. Maybe even run 5x dynamic on that.
Also look at resource usage here
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/wordpress-cheap-vps-lowendscript/
As muxch as it pains me to suggest this, you can get away with running wordpress multiuser and a decent caching plug and get away with a fair amount more.
It depends also on how much your provider is overselling.
As has already been stated, it depends if it's static or dynamic. With a good configuration you can run definately run 7 static sites on 512MB RAM. I run about 5 static sites and 2 dynamic 'uns on 256MB.
I run 1 static and 3 dynamic sites on a 128mb KVM VPS, but the number of sites is not what determines resource usage, it's the traffic and content.
512? 7? ha, I have like 15 on a 512 and it can have more.
FTW
Before consolidating many of my shared servers to save on cPanel fees, I had over 300 sites on an Atom 330 with 2gb of ram. So how many sites can this host is one of my most hated questions.
How many text only sites can I host on a PDP-11?
WIN
I'm getting around 600k unique visitors a month to one of my projects and the last time I checked the memory consumed it wasn't more than 500mb ( of 16GB, lol :< )
Mine too:
Really, if you don't have any range, if you've never put your own sites on a dedi/VPS before, you should NOT be hosting sites on one.
If they are his own sites, well, great! Go experiment and see, because we have no clue how many of your sites your configuration will fit.
look for a generous provider willing to give you a trial server
heh Good luck on that. I'm a nice guy and will probably do a whole lot for a box of brownies but I don't even do that.
You can do that with OVH.
But what about cookies?
The cookies I see usually have nuts and while I can eat nuts, um they have a hard problem going through the system.
sorry forgot to add true story meme
Thanks for the replies. Just wanted to update this thread. I purchased a 512 MB lowendbox and have Kloxo installed on CentOS 5.5. I am running 4 sites ATM, two of which are powered using WordPress and do use a bunch of plugins, another site using a directory script and one static website. While idle, the system is using around 90 MB of memory. When I tried putting some load on it, the max. I could take it to was 150 MB (approx) of memory.
Conclusion: Does look like I can run 7 or even more sites on a 512 MB box.
true. i have a client use 512MB for 14 website, 3 of them is autoblog and still have a decent free memory and low cpu usage.
I have server with 512 MB for 30 website, few of the has 1000-2000 uv/day
I used 256 KVM for 4 autoblog with total less than 1000 uv and so far its enough.
Its just nginx - PHP5 - MYISAM MariaDB with webmin control panel.
But always stop webmin when i dont need to use and start when needed
Yes
I at first didn't realise that it was a... necro bump and I freaked out when I saw a post from @drmike ! Was this the end of the world? DrMike is back on LET? Then, I saw that this is a... 2011 thread and all gone back to normal!
But still, the same question lingers around and will continue to do so...
Well, Tim is still around that time.
Wow. My hair stands up reading some of what I've read here.
For a start: The question is completely nonsensical, akin to asking "Can I transport 7 boxes in a minivan?".
Are them sites static or dynamic? What, if any DB, is in the backend? Does dynamic mean php or some compiled cgi or what? What's the req/s? What's the average/high noon ratio? Etc. etc.
Short answer to what you probably mean: Sure. If you know what you're doing and if your sites have modest hit rates you could run 7 sites even in 128 MB. Easily.
And btw: No, "my server eats XX MB for 5 sites but I have two times XX RAM, so I can run two times 5 sites", is plain wrong. Why? Because the server needs and preallocates memory even with just 1 site. So, in that scenario you could probably run not 2 times but 3 or 4 times the number of (assumed similar) sites.
My personal take (pardon me for sounding rude): Your problem isn't RAM, your problem is a reasonably adequate level of knowledge.