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  1. #1
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    How many users do you think a 768MB VPS can handle?

    I should have asked this question before I bought my VPS. But how many forum users do you think a 768MB VPS can handle before it crashes? I ended up going with HOST Gator and their managed VPS service. So far my website is loading like lighting compared to the shared hosting plan i was on.

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    It really varies for each user. Every user has different usages. Say they all use SQL I would say between 75-150 before your server starts getting slow.

    I just take this from experience I had a server with 512mb and around 55 users, most of them running forums and the server was fine. Hope I helped

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    depends on the usage and request serving time
    also apache/mysql and other things can be optimized
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    Quite a few factors. What type of forum are you running in terms of the software? Any special modules/addons you have installed?

  5. #5
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    My site is wordpress with Super Cache so VPS work very good.
    Only load up to ~200MB. So I use VPS 512MB RAM.

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    As others have said, pretty much depends on what you're doing on the VPS. If it's say a totally dynamic, unoptimized and database heavy application with no caching, well, not as many.
    What did you expect was going to happen?
    6sync is where I've made my home ): // @tenkay

  7. #7
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    It depends on how you have optimized your forum. Have you installed a chatbox and other modules as that can also affect the performance of your VPS. I have a 1G ram vps before and it can handle at least 100 to 700+ concurrent users and the load is still below 2 that forum was heavily optimized and it was using nginx
    Learning...

  8. #8
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    on my vb 3.8.x forum, 10000 daily users are crashing vps with 768 MB RAM on daily basis.
    Everyday at some point I have to reboot as cpu usage goes above 25 and hangs the vp server
    never had any problems with upto 3000 daily visitors

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    via test result , if you are using nginx+php-fpm+mysql, you will got more better performance ,that let you handle more vistors.

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