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[strider96]

Hi!

I was thinking about renting a VPS but I have no idea what kind of specs I'm looking for.

I have been using a reseller account but now I feel that im ready for a VPS.

So if you guys can help me with what specs to go for.
My company provides hosting for heavy-duty projects. Like schools or councils and so on.

[alex-developer]

Specs for a VPS beginner

a full managed service with pro-active monitoring will be the best specs for a VPS beginner.

[strider96]

What's pro-active monitoring?

[alex-developer]

pro-active monitoring - your VPS monitor by system admins for any problems, if some problems appear they will be fixed without asking you.

The benefits to proactive monitoring your systems and networks are:

* Find problems before they happen.
* Ensure backups are working properly.
* Asset inventory including hardware and software audits.
* Monitor event logs and services.

[ControlVM Technology]

I'd suggest:

Minimum requirement
25GB
384MB/512MB RAM
450GB Bandwidth (normally never more than this traffic!)
2 ips for your nameservers
cPanel or DirectAdmin for easy account mgt (if you not family with shell command)
fully managed

Cheers!

[NeilAgg]

I think Jeff has a good baseline, but it is really hard to say what you need without a better understanding of what you are going to be running on the VPS. If it is something new, it is going to have to be guesstimates. If it is exsiting, there should be stats available from the current host.

[TheServerExperts]

Hello strider96,

If your new to VPS, i would recommend you getting an managed vps server.

This will ease things for you a lot.

Cheers

[strider96]

Thanks!

All of you, I knew what kind of storage and bandwidth but I don't get what the RAM or the processor has to do with it?

I understand the whole thing about computer architecture but when it goes on to server I just find the some of the components being used on my computer shouldn't matter.

[NeilAgg]

Well, if you dont think you need much in terms of CPU and RAM, then any VPS service will do. But, if you are doing anything that consumes CPU or RAM, you better make sure your VPS has enough to do what you need.

[strider96]

What type of stuff will make my Ram or CPU usage consume more and is there a way to control them?

[NeilAgg]

That depends on what you are doing with the server. Everything you do take a little bit of CPU cycles and RAM. If your application does a lot of calculations or processes a lot of requests, that will take up CPU. If your application access a bunch of data or has many simultaneous things going on, that will consume RAM.

Give us some details of what you are using the server for and we might be able to shed better light on it.

[webilly]

What thing you will do on your VPS? What it would be? Forum? Portal?

[strider96]

Originally Posted by webilly

What thing you will do on your VPS? What it would be? Forum? Portal?

Well it's for a exiting company. We provide services to Schools and some NHS websites and some Council Sites...

So we tend to be under heavy bandwidth consumption...

[cristibighea]

That doesn't actually say anything. What exactly are you running? What do "services" do you provide, which are so bandwidth intensive?

[VirtualSRV]

If you already have had a reseller account you probably already used WHM/cPanel. I suggest going with a WHM/cPanel powered VPS and invest the money in resources instead of management.