To define the correct setting of system parameters of the virtual server (VPS) is not simple. How much memory, processing power or disk space is necessary depends on the application and its components.
If you want to use the application developed or provided by a third party, they should provide you with the parameters.
In a case the application is developed by yourself, you can gain some information from the system monitoring. We would recommend to check the system resources from the very first moment. Keep track of this management during: change of the code, server application and updates and number of the users of the service.
For production environment we recommend to place each component of your application on the separate server. Typical example is separation of application and database. Additionally based on the application logic of your software. It will allow you to isolate the components that may be more performance-heavy (for example Elasticsearch). At the same time you can control each part separately according to your need. Of course it is necessary to adjust the application, so it would work in such regime and how it should behave if one of the components is overloaded.
If you need to operate multiple server in the cloud, you can try our Virtual data center
Regarding specific server parameters, the answer is not clear. We would recommend the following minimal specification for any virtual server used for application or any other component for example databases:
- 2 GB of RAM
- 4 vCPU
- 25 GB of storage space (SSD)
These parameters are good start, if you are not sure how to begin. Lower parameters are recommended only for development or testing purposes.
Separate system parameters Active24 VPS like vCPU, RAM and disk space can be increased anytime.
Warning: VPS the mentioned parameters of the server at a different cloud provider may perform differently and have different quality – all is base on aggregation, technical environment and other variables