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

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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

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Hi,

  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,

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

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Vielen Dank Michael / Many thanks!

That helps a lot already :slight_smile:

Jonas