[opencms-dev] System Requirements for OpenCms

[Joe Desbonnet]

256MB will be a very tight squeeze. It will work no doubt - but will
have a significant impact on performance as a lot of memory paging
will take place (memory being swapped to and from the hard disk).

I would strongly recommend a minimum of 512MB. I'm on a hosting plan
which offers a dedicated Pentium 4, 3GHz, 512MB RAM and 60GB disk for
EUR 85 (US$100?) /month.  I think that's about the going rate at many
places.

If you can fit several customers on the same instance of OpenCms it
should (?) be affordable.

Joe.

On 9/11/06, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I am looking into some VPS hosting for a couple of small OpenCms sites. In
> particular, I am trying to size the amount of RAM I need.
>
> I found this link from 2005 -
> http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2005q3/019172.html,
> which indicates that a bare minimum of 256 MB of RAM is required to run
> OpenCms. The experiment was done on a AMD64 processor running Fedora
> installing OpenCms.
>
> What about running OpenCms on Linux with a x86 architecture? Is installing
> OpenCms the same as running a site? From my limited experience installing
> OpenCms, it took forever to get it installed on my laptop, but once
> installed, it seems to work without a lot of waiting. Are there differences
> between AMD64 processors and x86 processors that would change this min.
> requirement of 256 MB?
>
> I am asking because VPS with 256MB+ is pretty expensive for the couple of
> non-profits that I support.
>
> Suggestions for good VPS hosting companies for OpenCms would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> I found one company, Host for Web, that offers 256 MB guaranteed for
> $400/year. Anybody have any experience with them?
> http://www.hostforweb.com/vps.html
>
> My usage will be several small sites with low level access - 10-12 pages/site,
> about 1200 members/site but low volume - say only a handful of simultaneous
> accesses. The sites are for local sports clubs, and most people look at the
> site once a day/to once a week for calendar changes.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc
> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> 602 524-0376
> 480 945-9197 fax
>
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