DA on a VPS with less than 128MB of RAM?

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Doc Holiday

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Hi Everyone,

According to DA's System Requirements page:

We highly recommend a processor of at least 500mhz even though DirectAdmin will run on slower systems. A minimum 64 megabytes of memory is required (128+ megabytes is preferred).
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Can DA sustain a dynamic website with any amount of traffic running on a VPS provisioned with just 64MB of RAM?

Thanks!
 
I realize that :).

This is essentially what I want to do:

The host's server is powerful, 8CPUs, 16GB of RAM, 4 x 500GB SATA2 HDs in RAID-10...

I want to setup a 64MB of RAM VPS running FreeBSD and Direct Admin. On the VPS I will be hosting two sites; the first is a wordpress blog that pushes no more than ~5GB of BW per month, and the second is a very small forum (SMF) with ~100 members (never more than ~5 logged in at the same time).

What do you think?

EDIT: Oh, and I was planning on using either VMWare or Xen because I like that they offer more "true" virtualization over the likes of OpenVZ. They offer VPSes on multiple platforms.
 
Nah, I don't think 64MB is good enough for real world application. Atleast 256MB is recommended.
 
Why is DA officially recommending 64MB - 128MB and you're telling me 256MB (which makes me feel like I might as well just use cPanel, which I've been using but want to dump because it eats so much RAM)?
 
Let's put it this way--how much RAM does DA chew up while just idling on the server with nothing really going on? Because the average website I'm taking about uses less than ~20MB of RAM.
 
Well, if you take it that way, then you're expecting too much...the OS, daemons etc run along with DA on the VM. So, even if idling RAM is too low, say you get a burst of traffic (10 people loggin in), then each apache process takes ~20MB of RAM, leave alone mysql etc.

So, it might run, but crash badly when you get some decent visitors using up free RAM. Hope you get it.
 
Instead of relying on opinions why don't you check with some VPS companies that offer DirectAdmin and ask them what's working for them.

Jeff
 
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