Looking for a way to decide resources needed for VPS or dedicated hosting

[jake17]

Hi,

I am moving my small shared hosting accounts into a single VPS hosting or dedicated hosting. I have no idea how to choose the resources needed (i.e. RAM, CPU, ...) I know how much bandwidth and storage is required.

How to decide if a web server with certain RAM and CPU will be enough to handle my sites? is there any calculator, rule...


thanks in advance.

[edhan]

Start with the entry level for vps or dedicated server. When you grow, you can addon the ram or upgrade CPU without downtime as your hosting provider can advice you.

[alphaomega]

Well what CPU and RAM use rights you have now? If you happy with what you have now just increase it by small percentage for future growth. Or go for broke, it looks you have money to burn, lol.

[jake17]

Start with the entry level for vps or dedicated server. When you grow, you can addon the ram or upgrade CPU without downtime as your hosting provider can advice you.

That's what I will do, thanks


Well what CPU and RAM use rights you have now? If you happy with what you have now just increase it by small percentage for future growth. Or go for broke, it looks you have money to burn, lol.

I guess my avatar is giving the opposite image lol, what I am doing is saving some money by moving my hosting servers from many companies to 1 vps server.

[alphaomega]

I guess my avatar is giving the opposite image lol, what I am doing is saving some money by moving my hosting servers from many companies to 1 vps server.
I understand, but thanks to your avatar I couldn't help myself. If you go virtual server you will save money. Just make sure it is not just some hip hop company. The amount of RAM and CPU time is relative to your traffic. If you looking for cheap solution your traffic is not great. So don't worry about it for now until you get business flowing. then you can afford more or even dedicated server. Good luck with your business.

[kpmedia]

VPS also includes RAM needs of the server software, not just the sites. Mail servers, DNS services, antivirus, anti-spam, etc -- that REALLY eats into RAM, and you could easily eat up 500MB+ just from the base install, including a control panel. Don't just "go cheap" and as a newbie you'd be best with managed services.

I could easily name several great VPS hosts, but would need to know budget, site stats, required locale (if any), etc. Knowing nothing, I'll just say that my top two suggestions are EuroVPS and Knownhost.

A "safe" VPS plan is always 768MB to start, and then move up as needed. To use less RAM, you'll need to be really good with server administration, and/or simply not use certain services.

Costs increase when using commercial panels like cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk.