That's a very vague question whose answer depends on a number of factors that no one on this list would really know. :)
In short, a very simple site using very little session memory and cached data can run on a very small amount of memory. Running load tests on your sites in a staging environment should show you how large of a memory footprint you have. The other large factor is what other services run on that machine-- FTP, SQL, SMTP? And of course, don't forget the OS. Windows 2008 server requires a minimum of 512 MBs, so I'd say no, that probably isn't enough since that allows nothing for ColdFusion etc. Chances are, you could get by with 1 Gig. That's how much my VPS has and it runs 7 or 8 sites. Of course, I'm using Linux, Apache, and MySQL which have rather small footprints to begin with. ~Brad -------- Original Message -------- Subject: How much memory does CF8 really need? From: Pete Ruckelshaus <pruckelsh...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, February 17, 2010 5:01 pm To: cf-talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> I'm at the point where I have enough domains on separate shared hosting accounts that I could combine them on a single virtual private server account and save some money...well, a little money, but I would have more control. Would it be possible to run Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and CF8 Pro on a VPS with 512MB RAM? None of these sites are high traffic sites, one is a personal site, one is for my high school class, and one is for our local swim club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330853 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
