VPS or Host specification recommendation for medium WP

  • Since my previous post was closed due to asking about particular hosting companies, I want to get a general view as I am between hosting providers. Without naming names, I just want to find out what I need to look for when finding a host or vps server. I am not familar with Linux but the providers I have looked at provide managed servers and cpanel.

    I have a 5 sites under development, 3 with woocommerce installed and themes with their plugins. My current reseller account is running slow eventhough I don’t get many visitors and I don’t have much if any content. I am using the latest wordpress and always update the plugins.

    If I wanted to run 10 wordpress sites with 8 running woocommerce what sort of server spec would I need, how many cpu cores, ram?

    The hosts usually run apache which they claim is optimised for WP rather than nginx.

    If other users who are/were in the same situation could provide some insight, I would be grateful. Please don’t close the thread as I searched and there were not many helpful replies.

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  • If I wanted to run 10 wordpress sites with 8 running woocommerce what sort of server spec would I need, how many cpu cores, ram?

    So many factors come into play with this. Do you have a high traffic or moderate? How many visitors per day you get? Orders?

    If you see a considerable traffic (over 600 daily per site) you should consider going VPS, with at least the following configuration:

    4 GB of RAM
    2TB of transfer
    75 GB Solid State Storage Drive
    2 Dedicated IP
    4 Virtual CPU
    cPanel
    Unlimited Domains and Subdomains

    If you don’t have a considerable traffic (less than 80 visitors per day on every site), I would recommend to get a shared hosting account. The reseller might have more limitations than the shared hosting. Usually shared hosting can handle a lot of traffic, and 10 WordPress sites should not be an issue.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by a2hostingrj.
    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    Even without considerable traffic (though I don’t think 600 a day per site is a lot), you want a VPS for an ecommerce store.

    I run on a site with 2GB of ram, 4TB transfer, 150GB space, 1 IP, 4 CPU, and I have no problems with stability except on the rare days I get 10k visitors in an hour. It’s rare. Serverside caching helps. But a lot of this is about tuning the server AND WordPress for your specific needs.

    I would recommend a VPS, and I would _strongly_ recommend linux. Apache or nginx is .. well you can use either one ?? There’s nginxcp and engintron for channel to bring nginx to apache for anyone on channel.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    So it really depends on the traffic. Do you have any analytics that can give you and indication of that? And, given that, are they hitting the same geo-regions so they’re all busy at the same time?

    Start from the data then work towards a solution for your hosting. The nice thing about VPS is that, generally, you can resize them almost on the fly, so if you under- or over-estimate, it’s easily fixable.

    Thread Starter tthefurmanuk

    (@tthefurmanuk)

    Looking at my sites with actual traffic, one is a magento store which I am going to change to a woocommerce store, last month which is the busiest month I had 2700 users, 11000 page views. It is a toy shop so the last 30 days were busy.

    The next busiest site is my blog which had 128 users and 380 page views. Then my other company WP basic site with 3 pages had 60 users and 300 page views. The rest are well below this as they are under development. These figures are all over the past 30 days.

    The package recommended to me by one vps host is 2 x Xeon CPU, 2GB, 50GB SSD, 2TB bandwitth plus free private nameserver and free IP address. Would I need 2 IPs? Works out at ￡48pm, the host is the top rated in the UK on trustpilot so they must be doing something right.

    Thread Starter tthefurmanuk

    (@tthefurmanuk)

    I should add that I wanted to keep the cost below ￡500pa for now and the annual price is ￡461.
    The next package up is 4 Xeon CPU, 4GB, 100GB SSD and 4TB bnadwidth for ￡576pa or ￡60pm.

    Thread Starter tthefurmanuk

    (@tthefurmanuk)

    Actually, looking at the first reply none of my sites hit 600 daily so I could manage on the first package 2cpu 2gb ram.

    How long is too long to load a wordpress site? I tried 3 of mine and they take between 6-10 seconds, some of them have no content on them yet.

    I should also mention that I don’t have any optimisation plugins installed as I am new to WP and I need to spend time looking at those as there seem to be quite a few.

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