oksteven

It should work okay for starter communities on a small droplet with DO. The issue with standard DO is they can't guarantee resources like CPU or memory bandwidth. If you have noisy neighbors then you can wind up with an underpowered VPS.

Really this is a problem all cheap VPS can run into. Some providers can at least guarantee a minimum for a vcore, but DO isn't one of them. You can ask to be transferred under a new hypervisor. Even techs will tell you they have no idea if the new one will be less busy.

    Kyrne

    Obviously that's not the issue. Composer would have failed without a swap on a $5 droplet. ?

      I think we need a crowdsourced performance testing on hosts and make a comparison thread like they did on Reddit for VPS/Dedicated Hosting.

        Kyrne Yeah, making a swap is how I installed and ran Flarum on a $5 droplet. It is not recommended in that tutorial.... but it did work.

        It functions much faster on the $10 droplet and doesn't need the swap.

          Kyrne True. My guess is they'll implement multitenancy on that host.

            Kyrne There are a few hosting services that will specialise in Flarum instances so it won't be long before users have a choice. ?

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              Had no issue with Vultr's hosting. Flarum running on tip top condition. ?

              EvelinaAdamovi wow that would not be the cheapest shared hosting in the world ?

              Best thing would be to do your own load test, but I think you will run out of resources quickly. Also, some (if not most) shared hosting will not allow so many connections at once

                  clarkwinkelmann Hmm... I wrote wrong I think (english is not my native langueage, sorry).

                  For example now I'm running SMF on shared hosting. My forum have 70,000 posts, 2000 registered users, BUT online there's always max. 50-60 users/guests at one time. So, there is any chance to run Flarum with similiar statistics on shared hosting?

                      EvelinaAdamovi

                      I think you might be able to run it with those numbers, but it wouldn't leave much room for future growth. At 50-60 active users online, you're likely looking at less than 5 requests per second. This all depends on the resources available with the host, and how the provider goes about limiting them per client.

                      None of us can say with certainty if you would do okay on your particular shared hosting environment with those stats running flarum. My guess is it would be adequate, though not optimal (slow during peak traffic hours).

                          webeindustry oh, I didn't expect that flarum is a such heavy platform. I thought Flarum = phpBB = SMF etc. if we talk about resources.

                          Now my shared hosting easily can hold 400 online users in Wordpress + 70 online users/guests in SMF. So I guess it will be not possible have same statistics if I change SMF to Flarum ;/ A little bit dissapointing... ?

                              There's no reason why any established hosting service would not be able to accomodate those figures @EvelinaAdamovi. There are going to be a few members releasing their own hosting services for Flarum forums and I'm sure they will be able to cater to your needs with ease.

                              Who are you using now if you don't mind me asking? Resource-wise it won't be an issue at all. It's more down to disk space (how large your forum is) and bandwidth (how much activity you will have on your forum).

                              webeindustry And in saying that, you wouldn't experience noticeable performance issues with more complex forum software such as IP.Board or phpBB in our day in age. 70,000 posts and 2,000 registered users is by no means a large community when compared to others out there.

                                The possibility is there but there is no point thinking about it yet as flarum is still in beta and require ssh which not many shared hosting support. You may try it using whatever data you can convert but I doubt you will be satisfied until its stable release finally comes. So, no recommendation until then.