Which specs of gCloud Host do u guys recommend?

Kayo

Hi Guys! Good Night.

I have a doubt about hosting flarum. About data, of course, he doesn't needs much resource power i think. But for a platform about 40 - 50 online users what do u recommend?

My limit would be 1 core with 3GB of RAM and 50GB of disk space, do u guys think would be enough? I was using a shared core with 0.6GB RAM and the gCloud said that was necessary an upgrade, it was about 4 online users the time and we kinda flooded the host to see how much it can handle 🙂
For those who already host flarum online, or had have foruns, even phpbb before, what do u think?

Sorry for bad english too, i'm brazilian. My biggest concern is about disk space specially because it's kinda hard for me backup flarum and upgrade the disk. But CPU and RAM is easier.
Antecipate my thank u for everybody too since now!

luceos

Kayo for 40 a 50 concurrent users I would try to use at least 2 cores with 4 GB memory and see how that goes. There are some open milestones on Flarum that will tackle performance in the future to lower this requirement.

Disk is something we cannot give suggestions for. It depends on whether you allow uploads locally, to which permission groups. Other than that Flarum only needs the local file system for caching and for avatars.

Kayo

40-50 online but more than thousand registered**

Kayo

luceos Thank u. I will not use local uploads haha, will let it to imgur. I think i will get 50GB so, will be a long term site, hope it works.

slutdragon

luceos my xenforo forum on namecheap $15/year basic steller hosting with 1gb memory can handle 50+ online without failure. I use opcache, cloudflare with page rules. I also somewhat limited the cronjob while maintaining all the functionality.

I tried to flood the website with bots (for test), the online counter hitted 700+ online before the resource usage limited error message came (or something like that came) .. usually my website has 30-50 online most of the time, xenforo handel it like pro! Also the design I'm using is top-notch.

While my flarum test website on the same hosting, loaded very slow with no one visiting except me. I also installed some basic FOF plugins example, upload, Google login, seo , etc . Like 4-5 plugins. Website load time was 5-8 seconds. My xenforo website loads within 2 seconds and on load 3-4 seconds.

I Guess this is the difference of quality of free and paid solutions.

matteocontrini

My forum (https://forum.fibra.click) has on average 1k users visiting the forum every day, with online users varying from 10 to about 100 depending on the time of the day or by posts published on social networks.

The VPS currently has 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM (Hetzner Cloud), but the CPU usage is usually very low, even if the web server handles many other (primarily static) websites. RAM usage is at 1 GB, but more than half of it is MySQL, which I think tends to use more memory if it's available. We previously had 1 GB with another provider and it was fine anyway.

Kayo

Thanks for the aplicated example matteocontrini

matteocontrini

I currently have 25 online users and the load average is between 0.6 and 0.8 (out of 2), so year, 2 cores are the minimum to handle spikes I guess...

luceos

slutdragon make sure to disable debug; otherwise your js and css are compiled every time, for every user.