flarum on cheap vultr instance?

jsaysalot

Is there a recommended cheap vultr instance that would support flarum with 1000+ users?

luceos

jsaysalot 1000+ users isn't much, unless they all use the forum at the same time. Simultaneous users is a better metric to measure how much resources/capacity you need. You can run Flarum on (shared hosting too) a small VM with just 512MB memory and 1 CPU. But 1GB memory would be a bit better. Vultr starts at 1GB memory anyway, so I would start with that and grow based on how much traffic your community gets.

luceos

As a further addition, allow my double posting, discuss has roughly 50k users, it runs on a digital ocean droplet with 4GB memory and 2 vCPU to protect against sudden bursts of activity. It runs a queue- and websocket daemon. On average over the past 7 days it used 10% of its CPU and 74% of its memory. The memory use can be blamed on the daemons and database mostly I assume.

jost

Late to the game, but I just recently installed Flarum, and got it working.

Did a bit of load testing today on a high performance VPS instance running at 3.8ghz CPU's.

Using an NGINX + php-fpm stack.

With only a single php worker, was getting around 32 requests per second on the flarum home page.
With 2 workers... as expected, 64 requests/sec. This is on a 2 CPU box.

This is on a fairly large site with a quarter of a million posts and 9000 user accounts.

LanceHaverkamp

Even later to the party, but PikaPods.com will run a hosted Flarum starting less than $2 a month, then scale resources as needed.