Specs for a Development Server

[Bashful]

I'm setting up a side VPS to isolate all development.

I'm going to be removing most users, probably cutting down the posts, etc.

Essentially it'll be a very small board and the maximum amount of users on concurrently will be 5-10 people.

I was thinking of going with a 15GB SSD, 786MB RAM and 1 core.

I'll be hosting MySQL and Cpanel on the same box, and as such I'm worried about performance but I don't really know if I'll need more. Just trying to save costs haha.

Thanks.

 

[fly]

Why not just use shared hosting?

 

[Bashful]

Why not just use shared hosting?

This is cheaper. $5 a month for this server, $10 if I go with more. I'm sort of re-thinking this. I was originally going to put a Project Management Suite on the server and decided not to, which is why I was going to go with another server anyway. I can always just host it in a separate instance on my current server though.

Question still stands though, I'm curious to what the bare minimum for an effective installation would be.

 

[Paul B]

The server requirements are listed here at the bottom left: https://xenforo.com/purchase/

There's also a script which can be run.

XF can run on the most basic of shared hosting so the specs in your first post will be more than adequate.

 

[TPerry]

I was thinking of going with a 15GB SSD, 786MB RAM and 1 core.
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My understanding is that cPanel will chew up around 512MB itself if this is a VPS.

 

[rainmotorsports]

cPanel might make it a problem. But I run a $5 a month DO VPS that is public facing with low traffic. Cant remember if thats 512 or 1024 mb of ram. But It's very much possible to get a well tuned MySQL or MariaDB and NGINX setup to support a 250 concurrent user load bench with 768 mb of ram. Out of the box it won't lol. Have to disable performance schema to keep mysql from eating a ton of ram for, in our case, no reason.

 

[WSWD]

If you're using CentOS 7, cPanel will not even install with less than 1GB of RAM anymore.

 

[Mike Edge]

If you're using CentOS 7, cPanel will not even install with less than 1GB of RAM anymore.

Well you can still edit the install file and then install via bootstrap.

 

[WSWD]

Well you can still edit the install file and then install via bootstrap.

Way too much of a hassle for the average user. Updates will continue to fail, etc.