What OS to use, when installing xenforo?
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Black Tiger
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I would either stay with Centos 7 for the time being (do not change to Centos 8 or wait until it's more clear how Centos 8 stream will work), or use Debian. Both of these are the most stable for hosting.
I don't know VestaCP, we're using cPanel and Directadmin for hosting. Directadmin has a ver nice personal license nowadays, cost only $24 a year and you have 1 admin account and 10 domains (so -not- 10 user accounts), which is very good for hobby stuff.
Ubuntu is popular for at home, but is based on Debian and Ubuntu is not really good supported by panels so I would stick to Centos or Debian.
I don't know VestaCP, we're using cPanel and Directadmin for hosting. Directadmin has a ver nice personal license nowadays, cost only $24 a year and you have 1 admin account and 10 domains (so -not- 10 user accounts), which is very good for hobby stuff.
Ubuntu is popular for at home, but is based on Debian and Ubuntu is not really good supported by panels so I would stick to Centos or Debian.
MesterPerfect
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My experience is good with ubuntu
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Hristo Avramov
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I am going to change my hosting because I think I can get better speed at cloud hosting service like vultr for example.
Still wondering what OS to pick up.
Still wondering what OS to pick up.
Hristo Avramov
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I always hear how there are so many things I need to configure for a "fast speed site" so I stay away from the cloud for now.
dknife
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centminmod takes care of almost all of it for you. The out of box experience is fantastic for running a fast XenForo site.
gerryvz
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I've been running Ubuntu LTS (started with 18.04, migrated to 20.04, and will be migrating to 22.04 in the future) since March 2019, and have zero issues. Very stable and exceedingly well supported, and with a certain, long-term roadmap. Highly recommend Ubuntu.
Masetrix
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If the Xenforo on the server is not only supposed to be fun for leisure, to be able to cope with high loads and to be operated with relatively little administrative effort
Ubuntu root server installation with Plesk as admin panel. I haven't used anything less complicated.
But that alone is not enough.
You should plan for a large forum with at least 32GB Ram, better from 64GB up. The CPU should not be chosen too weak either, 8 cores/16 threads make the server really fun. If you then configure MariaBD (~10.7) correctly and use SSD as hard disk, there is no longer any "bottleneck".
PS: Never neglect backups!
Ubuntu root server installation with Plesk as admin panel. I haven't used anything less complicated.
But that alone is not enough.
You should plan for a large forum with at least 32GB Ram, better from 64GB up. The CPU should not be chosen too weak either, 8 cores/16 threads make the server really fun. If you then configure MariaBD (~10.7) correctly and use SSD as hard disk, there is no longer any "bottleneck".
PS: Never neglect backups!
Forsaken
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Those specs for a new site are wayyyyyyyyyyy too much; many sites don't even get to the point where they're active enough to need 8-16GB after a year or two. Even most medium sites don't need that much.
Plesk Migration is simple enough to use, so they can easily just migrate to a larger server from a VPS or something when needed.
duderuud
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The amount of memory can be matched by the database size so the entire db can be run from memory.
But that is a nice to have and not mandatory.
In practice I tend to agree with @Forsaken. For most forums 4-8gb should be enough.
It's like what men with small eh...penii say: It's not the size that matters but what you do with it.
A tuned vps (like Centminmod) with 4gb will perform better compared to a default Ubuntu vps with 8gb.
But that is a nice to have and not mandatory.
In practice I tend to agree with @Forsaken. For most forums 4-8gb should be enough.
It's like what men with small eh...penii say: It's not the size that matters but what you do with it.
A tuned vps (like Centminmod) with 4gb will perform better compared to a default Ubuntu vps with 8gb.
Masetrix
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As I said before:
and in connection with the topic title...
Of course you can also run XF efficiently with minimal requirements, but that's not what my answer was about...
Masetrix
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If you have a large database (~10GB on disk ~20GB in memory) this is no longer nice to have.
My answer is also aimed at operators of VB forums with larger databases and long-standing forums who are looking for a high-performance replacement for vB and the right environment for it.
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