webfaction 200mb ram enough for 50 items and 50 visitors a day?

[GuyBrush]

Hello,

Can someone tell me how much memory a small satchmo store with 50 items
and 50 visitors a day needs?
If thats hard to guess, how much ram is needed for a fresh satchmo
install idling?
I'm thinking of using webfaction or another shared host if I can find one.

Thank you!

[Chris Moffitt]

I tend to recommend a 256MB VPS solution as the minimum to run Satchmo. A 50 item store with 50 visitors a day should run just fine on a 256MB vps. Webfaction is a bit of a hybrid and I've heard mixed results on how well Satchmo runs on it. I will say that if you must go shared, then webfaction probably a good choice and their 200MB plan should be more than sufficient.

-Chris

[Griffin Caprio]

I use webfaction for a satchmo instance and I recc using nginx instead
of apache. Your memory usage will be much lower. Lmk if you need help
because it's not straightfwd on webfaction.

Cheers ,

Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon my brevity.
Griffin Caprio - Founder & President, 1530 Technologies, Inc.
Cell: 312.371.3869

[GuyBrush]

Awesome!
How much RAM are you using for your shop?

Thank you!

[Griffin Caprio]

I'm on the Shared 3 plan.  we hover around 120MB for all of our servers, but that's for a second django app + satchmo.  We're not really super high volume, though.  

Griffin

[GuyBrush]

I'm setting up Nginx and django/satchmo on Ubuntu jaunty this weekend for practice, before I try webfaction.
Whats the recommended setup Nginx with fastcgi or Nginx-mod_wsgi?

Thanks!

[Chris Moffitt]

Fastcgi will work just fine but I think the general community recommendation is to go with mod_wsgi if you can.

-Chirs

[Graham Dumpleton]

On Sep 12, 11:35 pm, Chris Moffitt <ch...@moffitts.net> wrote:
> Fastcgi will work just fine but I think the general community recommendation
> is to go with mod_wsgi if you can.

When they talk about mod_wsgi, they usually mean Apache/mod_wsgi and
not nginx/mod_wsgi. They are different things and implementation of
nginx/mod_wsgi is a bit suspect for production systems. Read:

http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx-version-of.html

Graham

> -Chirs
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, GuyBrush <guybrush....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I'm setting up Nginx and django/satchmo on Ubuntu jaunty this weekend for
> > practice, before I try webfaction.
> > Whats the recommended setup Nginx with fastcgi or Nginx-mod_wsgi?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Griffin Caprio wrote:
>
> > I use webfaction for a satchmo instance and I recc using nginx instead
> > of apache. Your memory usage will be much lower. Lmk if you need help
> > because it's not straightfwd on webfaction.
>
> > Cheers ,
>
> > Sent from my mobile phone.  Please pardon my brevity.
> > Griffin Caprio - Founder & President, 1530 Technologies, Inc.
> > Cell: 312.371.3869
>

[GuyBrush]

Thanks for the info.