What is the optimal server configuration?

Question

Server equipment

I am launching a project, something between a crm and a todo list, for a couple of thousand users, with constant activity. It is clear that shared hosting is not an option here. There is no money for his iron yet. It remains to rent a server.

And in order not to overpay for unused capacities, I would like to ask people who have already launched similar projects (facing similar tasks) for advice on the optimal configuration?

Answer 1

You can look towards Amazon - there you can find a cheap solution .. (at the start) + payment for raising a new instance (automatically) when the load increases. (this includes payment for the time the instance is running..)

Answer 2

In order not to measure the "boa constrictor in parrots" - take your project's sendbox, apache-jmeter or analogues, make an approximate template of how users click buttons on your project with delays, etc.) see how many 10-50-100 users give loads - then scale and get how much memory, cpu, iops is needed.
Z.Y. Just do it strange to run something without load testing.

Answer 3

taking into account the server price of 50 euros, it's hard not to "overpay" here
https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver...

Answer 4

There is a good opportunity for you to try to implement the task without a special contribution of funds - a test period of the Cloud service for $1 - https://vps.ua/cloud-hosting/. You create the server yourself, choose the OS yourself, regulate the amount of server resources yourself.