How much RAM does my website need?

Dr. McKay · Jun 10, 2017

I have a site 800 visitors a day, would like to move it to a new VPS. How much RAM does my website need? I don't mind hosting it on any hosting control panel. What is your advice?

techman · Jun 10, 2017

Dr. McKay said:
I have a site 800 visitors a day, would like to move it to a new VPS. How much RAM does my website need? I don't mind hosting it on any hosting control panel. What is your advice?

Hi, I have a site with similar popularity and the VPS it's running on, is using 4GB or RAM, and seems to be enough at the moment. Also, the specific RAM need depends on if you're using a CMS (such as WordPress, Drupal etc), how many plugins are installed, server OS, caching, other things you're running on the same server.

I think 2-4 GB of RAM would be OK for you, but if you can measure your current RAM usage, would be awesome, and then you could find the best VPS. Also, since it's possible to switch VPSs or add more resources with many hosts, you could start off with the cheapest or middle one they offer and see if that's enough, too much or too less.

Hope that helps!

jordyjl · Jun 10, 2017

Default website can 512MB sometimes risky, but 1024 (1GB) is almost enough. I have one client who have more than 3000 visitors a day and 1GB is enough for it.

SmartHost · Jun 10, 2017

Honestly, there is no way for us to answer this question with the lack of details given.

All depends on usage and types of sites.
One busy site could need 2GB itself, while 799 others might get away with 512 total for all of them.

Safe bet is to start low, and make sure you have a service that can easily increase RAM if found to be needed.
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LJSHost · Jun 10, 2017

If it's Wordpress or another CMS 2GB of RAM should do it. But I'd go for 4GB if you are running cPanel on the VPS.

maxserver · Jun 11, 2017

800 visitor/day is small site, you only run on hosting or 512 MB ram (no control panel) or 1.5 GB with control panel

AlphaNine Vini · Jun 12, 2017

It depend how much traffic you are getting and what spam activities going on your website. You can apply some best security configuration on your server avoid bots and spammers. So that all of the resources are utilised to service real users of your website.
If you apply optimal configuration on your server. 1-2 GB of Ram would be quite enough. Else you can also apply CDN service like Cloudflare to avoid attacks or spammers.

cloudean · Jun 14, 2017

I have a site 800 visitors a day, would like to move it to a new VPS. How much RAM does my website need? I don't mind hosting it on any hosting control panel. What is your advice?

If you had 800 / 500+ concurrent / active visitors; I surely would have suggested VPS.
In you case, Shared hosting is more than enough.
If you current shared hosting provider giving you hard time; just change the provider.

HostColor · Jun 14, 2017

It depends on what these visitors do on the website and what kind of apps do you run on the server. If you use cPanel it needs at least 1 GB RAM (a bit less actually). So you'd start with 2 GB, but it is very likely that you need to upgrade it.

HostBastic · Jun 15, 2017

Somewhere in between 256Mb to 1GB ram allocated to your cPanel account should be more than enough. A well optimized website will require less ram for more demanding traffic. Otherwise any type of VPS with 1-2Gb ram should do fine, just make sure its SSD based.

radwebhosting · Jun 16, 2017

What software/CMS is your website built with or is it static HTML?

Dr. McKay · Jun 16, 2017

jordyjl said:
Default website can 512MB sometimes risky, but 1024 (1GB) is almost enough. I have one client who have more than 3000 visitors a day and 1GB is enough for it.

maxserver said:
800 visitor/day is small site, you only run on hosting or 512 MB ram (no control panel) or 1.5 GB with control panel

What control panel have you used to run with 512 MB, I doubt it can accommodate when running this amount of RAM.

radwebhosting said:
What software/CMS is your website built with or is it static HTML?

It was a custom PHP site which I hired a freelancer to build it.

macklong · Jun 16, 2017

I personally have free movie site and my server had 8GB RAM. It's keeps getting down every day only with 20K users online - WHY? because people are watching movie and browsing the site at the same time. soo.. it depends on you site not the people online there.

vicehosting · Jun 16, 2017

I would say anywhere between 1-3 gb should be sufficient enough (where 1 is the minimum you should have, and 3 is definitely enough, although you may use more if you wish.

24x7serverman · Oct 26, 2017

It will totally depend on the below factors -

1. The resources consumed by your website
2. Number of activities performed by the online users
3. The other connections, get-post request from your website
4. MySQL resources
5. The processes which are running continuously
6. Number of plugins installed with their resource requirement

Hope this will help you to find the exact RAM required for your site.

portuguesedude · Nov 3, 2017

Is the information provided by the "server status" on cpanel valid for evaluating needs ? Can a cpanel user obtain information about resources use on any log file for example ?

thanks

grace.tea · Nov 9, 2017

I think 1gb is enough to handle at least 20 website from you host.

mymelody28 · Nov 20, 2017

Generally with 512MB of RAM or higher is enough fro VPS to running websites. Wordpress is fed more MB. If there are enough plugins, .swfs etc you won't handle the websites with 512 RAM. Of course, the number of visitors is the most important here. Most small websites run usually 512mb RAM, but if you figured out the scope and size of your website then it will take no time to identify NEED of RAM.

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