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Server Requirements For a Low-Medium Traffic Site
zackrashmen
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What would the vps requirements be for a site with some traffic say around 200-400 a day and quite a few videos on it. It would mainly be blocks of text. What would the BW be like and what would the CPU and RAm need to be
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How long is a piece of string?
What does the site do, what architecture is is built using, does it need a database? Can it be cached?
200 - 400 hits per day isn't necessarily a 'high traffic' site. I was expecting 1k - 10k+ by the appearance of the title.
Would be like yahoo site. It can be cached and needs database
are the videos hosted on the site itself ? or some other video hosting site like youtube etc ?
Base off site
512 ram, 1 cpu is enough for your website
if the videos are offsite, then a Dediserve 5.5$ Month VPS (if 20 GB disk is enough for the site data) or Hostus 10$ a quarter VPS should be a good place to start.
Though, you will need atleast 1 CPU core (better if dedicated, or more if shared), 1-2 GB of memory (depending on the OS, control panel, webstack that you will use, your site's structure/database size etc).
All such VPS will come with enough bandwidth, so dont worry about that.
Oh ok thank you
You would probably be good with just a 1core/512mb VPS. Optimization is always the key.
Twice as long as half its length
1-2 cores, 512-1024MB should do you fine,
Try and get SSD storage, should be cheap at this level, you wont need more than 50GB at the max.
The bandwidth ultimately depends on the amount, length and quality of the videos that you're hosting. If each user views 5 10 megabyte videos and there's 300 users a day it means around 500 gigabytes of traffic per month for the video content. Almost any VPS should be able to handle that if you're not worried about latency.