VPS for Atlassian JIRA

drazilox

Hey all,

I'm looking for a VPS than could host JIRA. It uses loads of CPU, and I tried it on my online.net box (the 2e one), and everytime the page is loaded, CPU jumps to 99%. It's also slow as hell. That is a plan-b, but I'd like to know if I can get a VPS with maybe a dedicated core or something like that. Or maybe I should just pay for the hosted JIRA.

Thanks

redo

I recommend VPSDime with @serverian.

I have installed JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Crowd. It consumes a constant 5GB but the CPU has always been around 0.1

Finally I can settle down my long search for big RAM vps.

Edit: what I love the most of VPSDime is the backup feature. Wonderful!

wych

That JIRA application looks useful, thanks for making me aware of it.

Radi

@concerto49

mikho

I think @concerto49 offers hosted JiRA if thats an option

Radi

@MikHo said:
I think concerto49 offers hosted JiRA if thats an option

That's why I tagged him.

drserver

@concerto49 +1

redo

For 1-10 users, it is the best for self-hosted as the licence is $10 / year + $7 month for VPS. Furthermore, you can do all customization that you want. Atlassian hosted JIRA will limit you from full customization.

I hope the price from @concerto49 is compelling enough for me to switch ;-)

concerto49

redo said: I hope the price from @concerto49 is compelling enough for me to switch ;-)

Our JIRA hosting isn't price focused - we appeal to small to large businesses mostly. We offer better performance than the Atlassian OnDemand platform (there's a whole forum of complaints on it).

We host these in fast E3s with minimal VMs per host to ensure performance, automated daily backups and other features.

Starts from $30/month - https://www.cloudshards.com/jirahosting.php

Pricing is great compared to competitors in the market though.

drazilox

redo said: I have installed JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo and Crowd. It consumes a constant 5GB but the CPU has always been around 0.1

How about the CPU usage? Whenever I switch page in JIRA, CPU% in htop, java's usage jumps to 300%. That seems like an awful lot.

redo

If there is enough memory, it should be fine. One more thing is you may need more than 1 core.

drazilox

@redo said:
If there is enough memory, it should be fine. One more thing is you may need more than 1 core.

Yeah, but I took your advice and bought a vpsdime box. Still jumps to over 100%, sometimes over 300% when doing something in JIRA.

redo

With 6GB available, you should increase the JIRA's heap memory as suggested in https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Increasing+JIRA+Memory

I gave it 2GB

drazilox

@redo said:
With 6GB available, you should increase the JIRA's heap memory as suggested in https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Increasing+JIRA+Memory

I gave it 2GB

Did that, and the change shows in the system settings, but still this happens http://i.imgur.com/19E3rnv.png

redo

Is JIRA slow? or is it just the CPU?

One more thing you can try is the database. I give a big configuration for the mysql. Or you can try their offload.

drazilox

@redo said:
Is JIRA slow? or is it just the CPU?

One more thing you can try is the database. I give a big configuration for the mysql. Or you can try their offload.

The speed is pretty good. Will try the offloaded sql now. Hope it helps.

raindog308

redo said: If there is enough memory, it should be fine. One more thing is you may need more than 1 core.

Depends on users. I ran it on a one-core Azure Linux VM for a long time with no issues, but there were only a half-dozen users and probably had no more than 2 simultaneous users at peak.

drazilox

I now use the offloaded mysql, and still just going to the dashboard makes the cpu jump to 200%. What's up with that? What am I exacly doing wrong ?

redo

Drop a ticket to https://support.atlassian.com/

They will surely provide you a professional support. I have no idea for which license you are using, but support is valid for also trial license.

alexh

@drazilox said:
I now use the offloaded mysql, and still just going to the dashboard makes the cpu jump to 200%. What's up with that? What am I exacly doing wrong ?

Edit: According to Atlassian, try disabling memory ballooning.

An option called 'memory ballooning' may be enabled on the server which swaps unused memory of the virtual machine out to harddisk. When the JVM goes to garbage collect against the heap, this proces can take a very long time and tax the CPU heavily.

Edit 2: this applies to Confluence dashboard but likely you could take similar steps to do the same with your Jira install: https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile#content/view/200212909

srvrpro

We use JIRA and various other Atlassian products, no issues of any kind. The support does a great job too.

raindog308

srvrpro said: We use JIRA and various other Atlassian products, no issues of any kind. The support does a great job too.

...though they can be sometimes slow to respond to feature requests.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1865

11 years and counting :-)

redo

raindog308 said: 11 years and counting :-)

Interesting!

Nekki

$30 for Jira hosting is a VERY nice price.

Crab

We have been using VPSDime for JIRA, Confluence and Stash without problems. Memory consumption is high, but 6GB is plenty. We haven't seen any problems with CPU load, but I know it could be a burden if your instance is a busy one.

drazilox

Or maybe it's the current version that's causing the problems? Sent a support ticket, we'll see what happens.

redo

drazilox said: Or maybe it's the current version that's causing the problems?

Well, if the problem is JIRA is too slow to use, it makes sense to look at the htop result. Otherwise, I guess it is best to let VPSDime take care of their machines and start using JIRA for whatever its purpose. Good luck.