Posted by socialtalker on April 27, 2010 at 2:33pm
I am about to buy VPS space after putting it off for months. I want to put up the aegir system for drupal sites, but i also wish to put up a few wordpress sites and several hotaru sites. can anyone tell me if the aegir system needs to take up the whole vps (hence i will need two accounts) or can i host other systems? (if i am using the right language)
thanks!
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Theoretically you can host
Theoretically you can host Aegir-managed Drupal sites alongside Wordpress sites on 1 VPS. You will want to take a close look at memory utilization once you get this setup and do projections based on the traffic you expect. Assuming you are also running mysql on the same VPS, it can be a balancing act. I would start with at least 512MB of memory.
Aegir presently can only manage Drupal sites. I think I remember hearing that Aegir could theoretically be enhanced manage Wordpress sites, but don't expect that functionality any time soon (or ever).
thanks!
yes, i think i will just keep the aegir in a separate account, that makes the most sense. just wasnt sure.
messy idea?
you could always run different lightweight webservers on same VPS, with a simple proxy to sort out what to send to which? I've a VPS running nginx & lighttpd at the moment (512MB, although it is also running a Postfix / virtual servers config so that's probably eating a lot), and Drupal is living behind nginx with some other bits behind lighttpd. Originally done to have test stuff and live stuff in different webservers but on same "box", and it's worked ok for the most part.