Hi Everyone,

My shared hosting company asked me to move out since I use too many resources on their server.

My idea is to use Linode (Linode 2GB) since it is a reliable company with a good network / location for my visitors.

The forum is the bottleneck based on my hosting company and we did what we could to optimize the forum as much as possible (no +/- 1, not displaying visitors in topics, etc...).

I plan on using Nginx with PHP-FPM and MySQL 5.6 (or MariaDB) instead of the current Apache 2.2, old hard drive, MySQL 5.5. Our database is not so large, 800k messages, 1.5GB large with 100-150 users at the same time browsing through with peak at around 500-600 from time to time.

Would Linode 2GB plan be sufficient? Should we directly move to something larger? I do have someone to manage the server so it will not be an issue to not have any control panel (free ressources) or even a dedicated server.

Thanks !

Max

2G should be fine for those specs... I'd suggest an SSD if given the option.

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. Yes, they provide SSD on all their plans.

Anyway, I will try with this plan N°2 and upgrade if necessary, otherwise, for the same price, I can have a dedicated server at OVH or Online in France which is my target public.

I hope to receive feedback from people hosted there, I'm sure there is a few.

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. Yes, they provide SSD on all their plans.

Anyway, I will try with this plan N°2 and upgrade if necessary, otherwise, for the same price, I can have a dedicated server at OVH or Online in France which is my target public.

I hope to receive feedback from people hosted there, I'm sure there is a few.

Im using VPS Classic 3 from OVH and it works just fine ;)

My Database is more or less like yours, 2Gb. I also have more or less 200/300 people at the same time with peaks of 1000.

For 9,83€ per month, its perfect.