Feedback on Multi-Server Architecture for Hosting ~70 Websites

Vendoz

adil Agree. If they're custom written maybe you could make them run, but if they're wordpress, you would do better to upgrade that specs, at least the ram.

Plus, as 8Dweb said, also consider a backup server because the native backup service of Enhance works very well and i recommend you to put it in the cluster.

8Dweb

adil I agree. 4GB/4vCPU would be a good starting point for the app/db server, but check performance on the DO data center you choose before finalizing.

JohnB

aymanaaoun Role: Host around 50 production websites.
Specs: 2GB RAM, 90GB NVMe SSD, 2 vCPUs (x2 servers)
Total Websites: 50 (distributed across 2 servers)

25 sites sharing 2GB of ram and 2 vCPUs? The vCPU count might work if the CPU is very high performance and the sites aren't high traffic.

2,000 / 25 = 80mb of memory per site.

Unless these are static (not wordpress) sites or VERY optimized sites, your specs are extremely low.

Godaddy offers similiar specs. Don't be like godaddy.

Kosta

JohnB agreed it’s extremely low, if you want to host 25 plus websites you need to go for dedicated machines I think.
I am planing to host 100 accounts containers on 16 core cpu and 192 GB ram for information…

aymanaaoun

adil JohnB You're right. I need to increase RAM. I'll allocate 150 MB per website and 2GB for the Database.
So 25 websites = 25 * 150 + 2,000 ~= 6GB RAM. I'll go with a 4GB RAM and 4GB SWAP server at first, try it out, before increasing RAM, because most of my websites are very optimized, mostly static and heavily cached on Cloudflare.

JohnB

Kosta 100 sites on 16 DEDICATED cores on a high end CPU should be zippy if the majority aren't hosting busy ecommerce sites.

I literally like to have at least 1 core (VPS) and 1-2gb memory per site. I routinely halve load times on backend pages and ecommerce pages when moving a site to my hosting.

Then again I don't charge $5/mo for hosting.

Anyone hosting with limits like 100mb memory and I assume you've never actually built a site and saw a youtuber saying you could get rich doing this. Like those idiots saying join upwork and use AI to write the code.

Always possible they are just hosting static (as in no PHP) sites though.

josedieguez

2GB RAM is nothing... please consider increasing that.

Kosta

JohnB I just want to provide transparency and power to my future customers. Basically to show them the hardware and resources they will get. To limit accounts per server to guarantee them consistent uptime and power to burst! Without they to bother me about issues…
And I am planing big server for our little starting up plans where I can host 500+ accounts but for premiums will be maxed at 100acc per server of 1cpu if 2cpu 200

aymanaaoun

8Dweb Thank you for your explanation. I'll create a separate server for Email. You're right regarding backup, I forgot to mention that, usually I attach an external volume/storage to each server for the backups, I do not create a dedicated server for it. On top of that, each of my production droplets are backed up on digital ocean.

Thank you again 8Dweb it was very helpful

aymanaaoun

8Dweb One more question, the CP server doesn't have to be more than 2GB RAM right? Since it mainly only manages DNS and 1 website

adil

aymanaaoun the CP server doesn't have to be more than 2GB RAM right

Yes, the panel itself is really lightweight, and doesn't use much resources.

aymanaaoun

adil Thank you Adil.

To transfer websites from my old enhance architecture to my new one, I'll have to do it manually one by one? I know there's the in-built transfer feature, but this will only work for servers under the same CP

adil

aymanaaoun

From Enhance > Enhance, You have to do it manually.

From cPanel/Plesk > Enhance, you can use the Website Import feature.

aymanaaoun

adil Manually it is, until 12.1.0 is released:

Ability to download an archive backup of a website and import it to another cluster.

Thank you adil