Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : VPS Hosting : Minimum VDS specs question........

[RobertSearcy]

I've got a lil' question about what specs. I'd need for a VDS/VPS.

I plan on getting one so I can run a single Palace chat server (*not* IRC-type, I checked with a few popular datacenters in the US [i.e. BurstNET, GNAX, Managed.com, etc.] and they told me it wasn't IRC) and do some web hosting (mostly for friends -- might sell a tiny bit of it or something) with CPanel/WHM.

How much RAM and CPU would you suggest for running the above stuff on a VDS? I have ran Palace on a CPanel server before without problems (well, the only problem was despite Palace supporting multiple installations on the same IP addy, each Palace had to have its own IP addy.....each installation after the 1st on the same IP address wouldn't work) and I didn't notice much resource usage (checked the CPU usage in CPanel and unless Palace hung up, which is rare, the indicator stayed green)........but I never paid attention to exactly how much CPU and RAM it used when I tested it out.

I've been looking at TekTonic's $35 a month plan for CPanel/WHM and all of the usual good stuff you get.

That plan has 128 MB guaranteed............is that good enough for Palace and CPanel/WHM?

Thanks a bunch in advance and sorry if I confused ya'll. lol

[BurstNET]

128MB is the minimum that you should get for a CPanel based VPS.
256MB would have it running smoothly.
128MB will work, if the VPS provider has things optimized properly with CPanel..but heavy usage of the VPS may bring you well over 128MB.

[RobertSearcy]

According to one source (that actually sells Palace hosting IIRC), Palace uses between 3-5 MB of "resident RAM" (IIRC, that's RAM used by a program and not released or dumped).

Would that still be good on a 128 MB VDS?