Forum Memory

[Jason76]

Does anyone really think a forum is going to work on regular hosting, not just an advanced VPS plan? How about multiple forums?

 

[Lord Saru]

If your community is small, I dont think its going to be a problem.

 

[Jason76]

In what ways can memory be conserved without sacrificing the forum quality?

 

[Page]

if you have over 4GB and small then you are good. having 16GB will be better

 

[David S]

I agree with Empire. 4GB is too small and won't be able to run properly/correctly. However on 16GB it will run a lot faster and smoother.

 

[Cierra]

I think that "regular" hosting does & will work for small-medium forums. Especially when your forum is just starting up you don't need a huge amount of GB space. There are a lot of different plans out there on shared hosting providers that can suit your needs. Large forums may like the advanced options that VPS provides and having more control.

 

[Tucker933]

I agree with Empire. 4GB is too small and won't be able to run properly/correctly. However on 16GB it will run a lot faster and smoother.

I don't think you guys know how RAM works lol if you have more memory than is utilized (usually less than 512MB peak for a medium-traffic forum, and around 128MB peak for small), you'll get absolutely no performance increase by adding more. Performance only takes a hit when you've maxed your RAM's capacity, which is when the excess starts getting written to the storage drives (HDD or SSD). Storage drives are a lot slower because they're non-volatile, which is entirely why memory exists.

...when your forum is just starting up you don't need a huge amount of GB space.

In computing, memory isn't related to storage.

 

[Danielx64]

Also it comes down to the script, some are better than others when it comes to resources usage.

 

[Jason76]

4 forums with quite a bit of posting seem to take up 50 percent memory of 30 USD/mo VPS setup. Of course, though, including 500 pdf and 500 midi files.

 

[Page]

4 forums with quite a bit of posting seem to take up 50 percent memory of 30 USD/mo VPS setup. Of course, though,

Wouldn't have more then 4 forums on one VPS, depending on what VPS you have. Shared hosting is good for one board, I have two websites on one server and I sometimes feels and see the difference. the secound website doesn't get any traffic anyway and using it for testing

 

[Tucker933]

...including 500 pdf and 500 midi files.

Stored files don't contribute to memory usage. What's the server specs?

 

[Jason76]

Wouldn't have more then 4 forums on one VPS, depending on what VPS you have.

Why? Couldn't you just increase the size of the VPS plan?