I am completely new to moodle and so I have a few questions for the hardware set-up/hosting recommendations/requirements. I have been reading through a lot of different forum post and found that first setup seems to be the most challenging as far as gauging the right specs for a moodle environment go. My org. is looking to startup a moodle with 50 users and 3 courses. The 50 users would not be using the moodle concurrently but they would all be remote users. It's possible that we would be looking at as many as 20 "concurrent" users due to webinars.
That is where my first question lies: If we use something like bigbluebutton for online conferencing will that affect our over moodle environment or will the traffic be on the bigbluebutton server?
Secondly, the thought of having a dedicated server sounds great but for only 50 users it seems like overkill. There are thoughts of expansion to 100-500 users in 2 years. I am thinking that for starters shared hosting may be a viable option if not a virtual dedicated server. Any suggestions?