is 2gb ram enough for a big board
 

Hello everybody

right now I'm looking for a new dedicated server for my board.. and I needed to make sure of one thing.. is a 2gb ram server with a xeon or opteron dual core processor enough for a big forum or do I need more ram?

Thank you for your help :)

It all depends on what a BIG board is to you....

How many users in 15 minutes?

It also depends on the type of mods you add. and how big your database gets. Mysql loves ram :) the bigger it gets the more ram it loves (the more time its accessed)

well... my forum has 748,081 posts.. and over 40000 members.. the database right now is about 1 gb
well.. does this need mor than a 2 gb ram server?

Thank you for your help :)

The number of posts or members does not make a difference at all.

It is the number of concurrent users online and the average pagesize, and time it takes to execute queries that is most important.

I suggest you post at the Server configuration forum at vbulletin.com.

How many users do you have online at a time?1 GB of RAM would be good enough I guess but if you need more you can upgrade at that time.

How can you say that 1Gb RAM is enough, if you do not have any information yet to calculate this?

I really don't understand your replies.

I do not compute them well either.

I'd imagine with the information given so far, that 1GB of ram would probably load the site in a acceptable amount of time.

The simple answer is you won't know until it's been running a while and you see how much swap file gets used.

The general rule with RAM is - the more you can get, the better.

how much ram does this server have?

vBulletin.org runs together with several other Jelsoft sites on a few load balanced webservers. Not sure how much ram each server has.

I would also take into account the price difference, if were talking an extra 25-50$ a month for 4GB vs 2 GB then id go for the 4GB to save you any future problems. when you start using the swap file to much it really eats at your CPU so if you run low on ram and using the Swap Memory the CPU will start spiking pretty high giving you slow response on the server.

If the price is a big deal for you, then go with the 2 GB monitor the performance, you can always add it later with minimum downtime.