requirments for moodle server

requirments for moodle server

by Mikas Krukauskas -
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Hello, peeps,

I have a question for you. Today I am starting with a new Moodle project. I want to ask what are yours recomendations for system requirments(CPU, RAM, STORAGE ). We want to set up two servers: one for web server and second one for databse server. We are going to use Ubuntu servers. My question is what VMs system requirments should look like for each server (Web and db). We are planning to have about 100 users.

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Re: requirments for moodle server

by Emma Richardson -
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For 100 users you could just use one server but either way 4GB ram, 2+ CPU's, 40-100GB storage should be ok. Really depends on what you will be putting on the site.
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Re: requirments for moodle server

by Mikas Krukauskas -
Thank you for your reply. to make things clear I am talking about 100 active users. We are going to upload video tutorials, quizes etc. And we want separate db and frontend servers. So according you what requirments should be on databse server (CPU, RAM)? We are going to deploy mySQL.
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Re: requirments for moodle server

by Emma Richardson -
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Do a search - the question has been asked so many times - you should find something that fits...someone had a tool not long ago that you could punch in numbers and it would give some recommendations. I would still start with the same basics and just make sure you can adjust up if needed...
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Re: requirments for moodle server

by Usman Asar -
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Keep same configuration at minimum for DB server as well, as Emma mentioned (4GB RAM + 2 Core), but again, consider it as minimum. What kind of storage you have to use with VMs?
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Re: requirments for moodle server

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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If you are beginning, don't make things too complicated. Start with a modest configuration, like the 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM suggested by others, one machine for both the web server and the database server, install Moodle, run the Moodle benchmark https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=335357 and report back.

That is the whole point of virtualization, you can easily add more resources, if necessary.
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