Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

I run a similar suite of servers on a Vultr VPS with 1 GB of RAM,
running OpenBSD of course. I have had no problems.


On 12/10/24 03:09PM, Implausibility wrote:
> Hi.
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> I'm closing my office next month, and as a result I'm losing my fibre line and static IPs. I've built a VM in a major cloud provider's datacentre, and managed to install OpenBSD 7.6.
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> It will serve myself and a few friends, mostly some very small, relatively low-traffic WordPress sites, a Wiki, YourLS, a few static sites, and a mail server.
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> I'm wonder if there's a way to estimate if the server I have will meet the needs of these sites -- the stack I'm using is vanilla 7.6 plus MySQL, Nginx, PHP8.3+FPM, and OpenSMTPd. The hardware is two-cores of Intel CPU @ 3Ghz, 4GB RAM, and about 50GB of SSD. It's shared architecture, so I know I'm at the mercy of other users, although these are *supposed* to be guaranteed to be available to me at all times.
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> I work in IT, so I'm accustomed to providing information on users / software / activity in anticipation of hardware upgrades, but I've never been responsible for doing the actual work.
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> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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