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Hosting for Moodle Language Learning Classroom
I am looking for some advice and recommendations on hosting to build a moodle site designed for language learning. I will have about 70 students and 8-10 teachers. I want to have their lessons and course work up as well as project assignments and classroom/conference services. I know other CMS such as Joomla and Xoops and am learning Moodle but I am not well versed with the hosting part. I contacted a few places that offered moodle shared hosting but they said for my purposes I should get VPS. I won't be ready to go live for another two months so if I can build and test until then that would be great. Hopefully some folks here can help me out as I found this site by looking for more information and it seems to be the go to place. Thanks so much in advance.
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You need a dedicated server, and a good sys admin. Moodle is a beast and does not scale well at all, you could check the moodle forums for similar builds for specs.
Any location prefferences, as recommended above a dedicated server would be best.
Is Moodle really that big of a beast?
70 student doesn't seem like a lot to me, what specs would you recommend for the dedicated server?
Not a fan of moodle, but I'm sure some people around here would know of better places
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Not really, assuming they they don't use it all at the same time (concurrently). You can probably get away with a 2-4GB VPS or so depending on how you've configured it.
I don't think moodle is a beast, I will check at college today when its busy but I have never seen it use more then 40mb ram and about 50 active. Hears its status now but its peak ram is not high at all.
70 students isn't a lot. If you want reliability then I would go for a dedicated server, otherwise any KVM LEB over maybe 512MB RAM would probably work out for you. If I was in your position I would get a cheap dedi that way I have full control of the server.
Thanks for the mention. If we can be of assistance, please let us know!
I have installed a test moodle running for few months for 50 students at OPENITC 1G KVM server. No problem at all. I use it for demo and presentation.
You may PM me for URL.
I will keep it till end of this month, since my dedicated production server will be online next few days.
That's a very good student to teacher ratio.
I have only seen moodle in production once with 600-2000 users concurrently. It was on a beast of a server.
Well, I'm sure a good VPS would be more than enough [email protected] and we can find the perfect solution for your needs at the best possible price.
I thought moodle can be installed on shared webhosting
Me too thought the same seeing it under Softaculous on shared hosting. Now surprised when people are suggesting that it is a resource hungry application.
I can set you up with a reseller package so you can partition out a couple of VM's, I have several teachers with private reseller plans so they can do custom setups within their resource allocations.
In a lot of cases, yes.
Sorry, did not get you. Is the YES for it can run fine on shared hosting OR it is resource hungry and so better not be run on shared hosting?
That yes it may run on shared hosting like web sites do. I know people that host SolusVM and WHMCS on shared hosting. Probably a lot of tweaks and hacks though.
For Moodle it depends on the plugins and how many concurrent users etc.
Thanks for all the replies thus far, this site is great I never expected so much feedback so quickly.
While I won't have that many students I would like to use it as a platform for virtual classroom. I was looking at Live-School which is a free unified communication tools platform dedicated for live e-teaching and realtime live education tools. (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_livemood)
As for location I am currently in NYC with the program here on the East Coast. I will also be working with Students in China.
If you'd like to test your idea on a 1gb KVM VPS, drop me a PM. We're happy to donate one for a while to help you get this project moving. If you are not experienced installing a LAMP stack and Moodle, we can probably manage this for you. All free of charge of course.
I have been talking with another professor who recommended the following to me:
for about 100 students and 5/10 teachers
with moodle and joomla maybe a quadxeon server
with centos, fedora, ubunto installed and postgres/mysql server
should be ok. no need a lot of bandwidth, 100MB unlimited or 20TB /month.
Does anyone have any suggestions or point me in the right direction? I worry setting up a VPS might prove difficult for myself since I have no experience.
I think something like the following would probably be more than enough...
4 CPUs
4GB RAM
30GB SSD RAID10
1TB Bandwidth
Fully managed (so I'll do the setup etc. to make sure it all works) for £45/month
Let me know if this interests you.
You probably won't need a dedi.
I think a good LEB (like Ramnode) would be more than enough to take care of that.
People can actually host WordPress sites with less than 256 Mb of RAM.
@Mantis if you're still thinking about a LMS, check out https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
My college uses this, but I'm not sure about system resources it would require and/or if it is more than you need.
Use this server you will have no problems:
Intel Core I7 3770 Starting from
$149.95 USD
Monthly
Intel Core I7 3770
4 Cores/8 Threads
3.4GHz/3.9GHz Turbo
8GB DDR3
500 GB
20TB Monthly Transfer
Linux/Windows OS
5 usable IPv4 Address
/64 IPv6 Address Block
Remote Reboot Access
$149.95/month
64mb
Thats a super uber ultra mega overkill
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/moodle
Template for a container all made up with Moodle installed, just import and install in your control panel.