Howmany live visitors can my website handle?

mantrooo

Registered Member
Joined
Jan 11, 2021
Messages
60
Reaction score
71
Good evening BHW,

Soon I am expecting more live customers on my website, I have no idea how many it can handle at the same time.
Website is wordpress with around 7 pages and checkout (custom PHP theme).

Specs:
Vultr VPS (forum recommended this :) )
CPU: 1 vCore
RAM: 1024 MB
Storage: 25 GB SSD
Bandwidth: 0.8 GB of 1000 GB

No idea if it matters, but website uses cloudflare aswell.

Hopefully someone can give me any help :)
 
I’ve had websites with 3-4K daily unique visitors on a hostgator shared hosting plan and maintained stability 90% of the time.

There’s a little math equation you might want to take into account:
 

Attachments

  • 58701F31-B2E5-4030-BAD1-04127DB15792.jpeg
    58701F31-B2E5-4030-BAD1-04127DB15792.jpeg
    314.1 KB · Views: 110
I’ve had websites with 3-4K daily unique visitors on a hostgator shared hosting plan and maintained stability 90% of the time.

There’s a little math equation you might want to take into account:
This is amazing thank you!
 
First of all, it really depends on how well-configured is your website. This is where you should pay attention.

A summary, based on your hosting specs:
1. What many people don't take in consideration is the "v" from the "vCore". This means "virtualized core" which means you actually share the CPU power (the psychical one) with many others. So, the CPU power is the real one when we talk about "Core", and not about "vCore". CPU is one of the most important aspects.
2. RAM memory don't count too much into the website specs. Of course, is better to have 4-8GB RAM (where 8GB for 1 basic WooCommerce site is basically A Lot, even 4...), but it's not essential. For a small website, 1GB RAM (dedicated) is ok. Generally speaking, RAM is used for cache.
3. SSD is great, but NVMe is the best.

So, first of all, make sure your website is optimized (compress images, optimal image extension, only keep the plugins you really need, etc). You can find some very good tutorials on the forum about how to optimize your site.

"Soon I am expecting more live customers" - How many potential visitors? Where is your hosting server located and from where your visitors will come from is very important?

Cheers!
 
Last edited:
I would personally upgrade to 2gb ram 1gb is low in my opinion 1gb ram vms are useless for sites that are using Wordpress.
 
First of all, it really depends on how well-configured is your website. This is where you should pay attention.

A summary, based on your hosting specs:
1. What many people don't take in consideration is the "v" from the "vCore". This means "virtualized core" which means you actually share the CPU power (the psychical one) with many others. So, the CPU power is the real one when we talk about "Core", and not about "vCore". CPU is one of the most important aspects.
2. RAM memory don't count too much into the website specs. Of course, is better to have 4-8GB RAM (where 8GB for 1 basic WooCommerce site is basically A Lot, even 4...), but it's not essential. For a small website, 1GB RAM (dedicated) is ok. Generally speaking, RAM is used for cache.
3. SSD is great, but NVMe is the best.

So, first of all, make sure your website is optimized (compress images, optimal image extension, only keep the plugins you really need, etc). You can find some very good tutorials on the forum about how to optimize your site.

"Soon I am expecting more live customers" - How many potential visitors? Where is your hosting server located and from where your visitors will come from is very important?

Cheers!
Hey man!

I will for sure look into the website optimization. Also I am expecting around 10-40 live visitors at the same time

Thanks a lot for the in depth reply!
 
I have 2 core and 2 GB RAM with 8 sites half of them reach 3k-5k traffic monthly the rest are between 200 to 700 visits a month. just make sure the website is well-optimized that's all.I hope this helps.
 
Back
Top