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I am in need of advice about hosting Magento on a VPS.

I am considering a VPS that is advertised as Magento optimized, has 1024MB ram and says it has 4.8Ghz cpu capacity (if i order 1GB or ram or more i'm supposed to get 2 Xeon cores).

The HDD is not mentioned i don't know if they use RAID or SAS or anything. Could a small sized Magento store run optimally on this setup? I'd hate to have pages and checkout etc take many seconds to load.

Thanks for any advice.

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Yes - should work - however you may wish to use something like www.CloudFlare.com in front of it first - any reverse proxy would work of course...

It would be wise to do your shopping however on the VPS. Media Temple advertises here @ ServerFault and I have used them - decent folks. Also check out VPS.net

Bottom line - shop around and TEST before going live

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Needs to be based in Netherlands... but thx for suggestions. – dan Nov 15 '10 at 5:45
Why does it need to be based in .nl? I doubt you're going to see significant latency from .de or .uk. Or are there annoying compliance reasons? – Stephen Nelson-Smith Nov 15 '10 at 6:06
never underestimate the politics of a clients decision... – Glenn Kelley Nov 15 '10 at 6:15
if they want the netherlands - than so be it... That being said - should work just fine. – Glenn Kelley Nov 15 '10 at 6:15
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It's possible to run Magento on public VPSs, but not always optimal. When demand picks up, you're likely to feel the pain. First reaction is to simply upgrade the VPS with more memory, but increasing RAM has diminishing returns with Magento.

The important of Disk I/O was noted previously. This can vary between VPS providers, but also on different systems within a single provider. The other tennants on VPSs can ultimately drag this down. It would also be most noticeable on the most critical pages, as well - cart, checkout.

Running MySQL on the same machine as Apache can produce less than satisfactory results.

And running MySQL under virtualization is also a factor that negates optimal performance.

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I think 1GB RAM will be rather good. For better performance choose Xen virtualization.

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Yea they use Xen virtualization. But they say for storage: "Your data is stored on a Storage Area Network (SAN) with dual power supplies and dual RAID controllers. The information is copied over several hard disks. Storage is connected to the servers through high-speed 8 Gigabyte Fibre Channel connections." Ok but that doesn't tell me about how fast i can read/write data right... and i think magento's performance depends on that more than anything. – dan Nov 15 '10 at 5:40
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I got a demo set up on their vps... I did a speed test that accesses your website from computers all over the world... with a few tweaks its super fast... 1.9s for some1 visiting from china to load a page, los angeles 1.4 and europe less than 1s...

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and what service provider that is? can you tell as i'm looking for the same – Anton S Dec 14 '10 at 6:47
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