Hardware requirement for my setup

Hardware requirement for my setup

by Muhammad Abdullah Ijaz -
Number of replies: 2

Hello, i am planning to buy cloud vps of following specifications

20gb ssd

512mb ram

1 core processor


I will have almost 30 users active at a time and 100 enrolled students.

Are these days requirements okay to run flawlessly?

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In reply to Muhammad Abdullah Ijaz

Re: Hardware requirement for my setup

by Rick Jerz -
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Maybe so, it depends on the VPS.  In general, Moodle needs more memory.  If it were me, I would start with 2GB RAM. For the hard disk space, it really depends on what you and your students are doing.  If you expected each student, for example, to upload a 500MB video assignment, 20GB is not enough.

With some server companies, you can buy a one-month VPS, experiment as much as you want, and then cancel.  For example, when I was considering buying my current VPS, which is a 4GB VPS, I bought a one-month 2GB for experimenting.  I did, then redid, then redid, and again redid my moodle installation.

In your case, you could try a 512MB server, if it doesn't seem to work, cancel and then keep moving up.

After success, I decided to buy a 4GB VPS because it was only less than $10 or so more per month.