vps

Hi,

I'm looking for commercial hosting options for a Drupal site, and would appreciate some guidance on how much server power I might need. My experience so far is in developing relatively low-traffic sites. I'm also not an expert by any means in Linux server admin.

Just a heads up; as we move towards more and more stable builds of the Mercury stack, we are starting to look at deploying it on other infrastructure besides EC2. This week, we set it up and tuned for a modest (512MB of ram) VPS. These tests were successful. We were able to simulate a mix of non-cached traffic along side the simple ApacheBench battering, and the system held up well, even without gigabytes of ram to support it.

The shortest answer is: YES.

But, you need a few important ingredients to enjoy your Aegir Hosting System with Nginx as a webserver:

* Latest 0.8.x Nginx installed - try_files required - introduced in 0.7.27 http://nginx.net/CHANGES
* Nginx catch-all configuration with Boost integration (in case Varnish is too powerful for you)
* Simple patch for provision_apache.drush.inc - see http://omega8.cc/dev/provision.patch
* Easy to understand and use Aegir directories tree.