Hosting requirements

[musicmaster]

What are the hosting requirements of Thirty Bees (PHP, Mysql, MariaDb)?

[DRMasterChief]

Here you can find some old details:  https://docs.thirtybees.com/installation/

I wish @datakick can find some time to update this for an newer version like 1.5.1  but i dont think that there are much more requirements nowadays.

I will recommend a good and fast hosting,  NOT an separate server for just an webshop. It is too much time and effort to manage an dedicated server,  you have to do such a lot of updates to be safe, this is a full time for for every 2-3 days, even when you include a lot of monitoring.  The hoster should do all the safety things, you can do your job and your businees  🙂

Maybe an VPS or and Elastic Siteserver can be ok. Or just a simple hosting with fast SSD and also database on SSD, which gives more speed, maybe the number of Inodes can be important.

Just look for an recommended hoster  (this is not easy and it is NOT the bigger the better.....).  In which country you are looking for? 

[nickz]

On 12/23/2024 at 9:19 PM, DRMasterChief said:

I will recommend a good and fast hosting,  NOT an separate server for just an webshop. It is too much time and effort to manage an dedicated server,  you have to do such a lot of updates to be safe, this is a full time for for every 2-3 days, even when you include a lot of monitoring. 

That would depend on how many visitors he has. If a lot you need a dedicated, or several.

[DRMasterChief]

Hmmm what means a lot?   

I know what you mean, but for a few years now every small website has been recommended to have its own "server". That's nonsense, it's the wrong way to go about it, it costs the operator a huge amount of energy and work and the website operator is then completely responsible for that. Nowadays it's almost impossible to operate a Linux system connected to the internet SAFELY. There are simply too many things to consider regarding security, data protection, etc., otherwise you're opening the door to hackers...

good hosting from a suitable provider and with the requirements (which you should of course consider and know as a shop operator) can easily handle several hundred to a thousand visitors per hour.... very few shops are likely to actually have that. It makes more sense for a shop operator to think about it and scale up the hosting when the number of visitors actually increases, and then you have no time to worry about server security and have to go about your business... the servers should be managed by the professionals in the provider's data centers, not the shop operator.