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Newbie question: Servage... are they that bad?
May 06, 2010, 02:21:32 am
I am overseeing the creation of a new CRM system for my organisation. I'm pretty much settled on CiviCRM as I already know Drupal. I've got a local copy installed running on WAMP and so far, everything looks good. However, I'm conscious that I'm soon going to start significant chunks of customisation work and I'd rather be testing it live. Plus WAMP makes my PC fall over. So to hosting... we used Servage for my last job and everything seemed fine, but I've read a lot of bad reports about them now. Most of the bad reports are angry people trying to use up all their bandwidth and getting shut down. Our CiviCRM install will be very low load on the server - not more than 20 users in the next couple of years, probably a few thousand records. So I'm not worried about bandwidth issues.

But does CiviCRM run well on Servage? Has anyone got any good feedback, or alternatively horror stories?

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Re: Newbie question: Servage... are they that bad?
May 20, 2010, 06:12:22 am
CiviCRM has a big memory and CPU footprint but a much lighter bandwidth requirement than media heavy sites. Personally I don't recommend less than 256MB RAM, generally 512MB, and have had trouble with ISPs that don't (or can't) reserve CPU shares for each VPS. Overselling the number of VPSes per server can manifest in low CPU availability even if the memory and disk and bandwidth allotments are generous in a hosting package.
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