Server recommendation for super dynamic site

  • anand0412

    (@anand0412)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi. All recommendations are appreciated. I am developing a site based on WordPress.

    The site’s only purpose is to generate documents based on form inputs. I will be using the gravity form and gravity view plugins. Forms are quite large (about 100 fields).

    The forms are also restricted to subscriptions only via ultimate membership pro.

    Apart from the header, almost everything will be dynamic. No same content will be served to 2 different users.

    Due to this, I would not be able to rely on any caching technology / CDN except for CSS and js.

    In the past, I have developed WooCommerce and business sites and found openlitespeed to be fantastic compared to Apache.

    However, for this particular setup, which will be the best webserver option?

    Also, I’m using Google cloud platform. Any idea on memory requirements for 1000 concurrent users?

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  • Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    With 1000 concurrent users and Gravity Forms, you will be spending $$$$$$$ on Google Cloud (potentially thousands of dollars/month). Please give some thought to a high-performance dedicated server with 20+ cores and NVMe drives if you are certain of this level of usage.

    Openlitespeed is great on smaller VPSes, but its single-core limitation makes it much less desirable on multi-core servers. For a highly-dynamic site running on a server with 20+ cores, a properly-configured Apache + PHP-FPM will run faster than Openlitespeed. (And faster than nginx or basic Litespeed, for that matter, though Apache will require more memory than either.)

    Also keep in mind that in most cases, the server bottleneck on a WordPress site isn’t Apache/Litespeed/etc, it’s MySQL. For what you’re describing, MySQL must have sufficient resources and be highly optimized.

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