Newbie question: Lucee 5 on Debian 8 (64bit)

[Jonas Eriksson]

Hi all,

I apologize if this is super-obvious - and I have used the search but not found anything directly relating to my questions - but we've been running Lucee 4.5 on a VPS with 8 GB Ram on Windows Server, and would like use Lucee 5 (with Mura CMS mainly) on two new Debian 8 64bit VPS units - one for production, one for development - and have a couple of questions as to how we should set up the servers so it runs smoothly:

1. Is Debian 8 64bit a good choice, or are there strong reasons to use a different Linux version (our VPS provider uses Debian mostly)?
2. If Debian 8 is a good choice, what would you recommend in terms of CPU cores / Server Ram / Disk space for running a production machine  - for let's just assume ten to twenty relatively small websites (maximum 1000 visitors/day/website). Some image processing occurs when users upload an image to Mura CMS (which resizes and crops it to a few different variants), as well as some websites occassionally generating PDFs (2 to 30 pages).
3. Apache 2 and MySQL 5.7 - are those the recommended / good options for the above? Those we have experience with, NGINX and other DB less so. 
4. For a pure development VPS used via a VPN, what would you suggest as a setup combination in terms of cores/RAM?

Thank a lot for your input & best regards from Sweden.

Jonas

[Michael Diederich]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2017 01:20:02 UTC+1 schrieb Jonas Eriksson:

1. Is Debian 8 64bit a good choice, or are there strong reasons to use a different Linux version (our VPS provider uses Debian mostly)?

You can use this. We use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but thats quite the same.

 

1. If Debian 8 is a good choice, what would you recommend in terms of CPU cores / Server Ram / Disk space for running a production machine  - for let's just assume ten to twenty relatively small websites (maximum 1000 visitors/day/website). Some image processing occurs when users upload an image to Mura CMS (which resizes and crops it to a few different variants), as well as some websites occassionally generating PDFs (2 to 30 pages).

We have a quad core with 4 GB, maybe 8 GB should be better, depending on..

 

1. Apache 2 and MySQL 5.7 - are those the recommended / good options for the above? Those we have experience with, NGINX and other DB less so. 

... your database setup. We use apache 2.4 + mysql 5.7, works fine. Our db is a dedicated server, so 4 GB is enough for us.

 

1. For a pure development VPS used via a VPN, what would you suggest as a setup combination in terms of cores/RAM?

quadcore + 2.5GB is enough.

Cheers,

Michael

 

[Jonas Eriksson]

Vielen Dank Michael / Many thanks!

That helps a lot already :-)

Jonas