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On ssdnodes 4cpu KVM VPS with Intel Xeon Skylake cpus did a reinstall of CentOS 7 64bit OS and did fresh install of Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 with betainstaller72.sh which installs PHP 7.2 latest by default

Code (Text):

yum -y update; curl -O https://centminmod.com/betainstaller72.sh && chmod 0700 betainstaller72.sh && bash betainstaller72.sh

install times

Code (Text):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 171.0251 seconds
Total YUM Time: 12.513712393 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 42.8973
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 215.0278
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 253.2077
Download Zip From Github Time: 1.4060
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 327.2845
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 838.4173
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 1010.8484 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
4 2099.998
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post install checklist

Code (Text):

*************************************************
* Post-Install Check List....
*************************************************

--------------------------------------------------------
Check ccache Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
ccache version 3.4.1

Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Andrew Tridgell
Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Joel Rosdahl

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

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Check Nginx Version:
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nginx version: nginx/1.13.12 (040618-014708)
built by gcc 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) 
built with OpenSSL 1.1.0h  27 Mar 2018
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-ld-opt='-ljemalloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' --with-cc-opt='-m64 -march=native -DTCP_FASTOPEN=23 -g -O3 -fstack-protector-strong -flto -fuse-ld=gold --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wimplicit-fallthrough=0 -fcode-hoisting -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -gsplit-dwarf' --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf --build=040618-014708 --with-compat --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-libatomic --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module --with-stream_geoip_module --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-threads --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --add-dynamic-module=../ngx-fancyindex-0.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_cache_purge-2.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_devel_kit-0.3.0 --add-dynamic-module=../set-misc-nginx-module-0.32 --add-dynamic-module=../echo-nginx-module-0.61 --add-module=../redis2-nginx-module-0.15 --add-module=../ngx_http_redis-0.3.7 --add-module=../memc-nginx-module-0.18 --add-module=../srcache-nginx-module-0.31 --add-dynamic-module=../headers-more-nginx-module-0.33 --with-pcre=../pcre-8.42 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=../zlib-cloudflare-1.3.0 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=../openssl-1.1.0h --with-openssl-opt='enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128'

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Check PHP-FPM Version:
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PHP 7.2.6 (cli) (built: Jun  4 2018 01:54:13) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.6, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

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Check MariaDB installed RPM Versions:
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MariaDB-common-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-client-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-devel-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-compat-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-server-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-shared-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64

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Check Memcached Server Version:
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memcached 1.5.8

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Check CSF Firewall Version:
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csf: v12.04 (generic)

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Check Siege Benchmark Version:
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SIEGE 4.0.4

Copyright (C) 2017 by Jeffrey Fulmer, et al.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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Check mysqlreport version:
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mysqlreport v3.5-maria11 Jul 4 2013

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Check pure-ftpd Version:
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pure-ftpd v1.0.42

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Check YUM Repo List
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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.mirror.lstn.net
 * epel: pubmirror1.math.uh.edu
 * extras: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net
 * rpmforge: mirror.lstn.net
 * updates: www.gtlib.gatech.edu
279 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id                 repo name                                    status
base/7/x86_64           CentOS-7 - Base                              7,658+2,253
centos-sclo-rh/x86_64   CentOS-7 - SCLo rh                              7,371+96
centos-sclo-sclo/x86_64 CentOS-7 - SCLo sclo                                 521
epel/x86_64             Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_  11,611+974
extras/7/x86_64         CentOS-7 - Extras                                    305
mariadb                 MariaDB                                             44+2
rpmforge                RHEL 7 - RPMforge.net - dag                      136+109
updates/7/x86_64        CentOS-7 - Updates                               517+137
repolist: 28,163

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mytimes check:
/usr/bin/mytimes
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Mon Jun  4 01:58:18 UTC 2018    [UTC]
Mon Jun  4 11:58:18 AEST 2018   [Australia/Brisbane]
Sun Jun  3 18:58:18 PDT 2018    [America/Los_Angeles]
Sun Jun  3 20:58:18 CDT 2018    [America/Chicago]
Sun Jun  3 21:58:18 EDT 2018    [America/New_York]
Sun Jun  3 21:58:18 EDT 2018    [America/Montreal]
Mon Jun  4 02:58:18 BST 2018    [Europe/London]
Mon Jun  4 03:58:18 CEST 2018   [Europe/Berlin]
Mon Jun  4 08:58:18 +07 2018    [Asia/Bangkok]
Mon Jun  4 08:58:18 +07 2018    [Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh]
Mon Jun  4 08:58:18 WIB 2018    [Asia/Jakarta]
Mon Jun  4 09:58:18 +08 2018    [Asia/Kuala_Lumpur]
Mon Jun  4 09:58:18 +08 2018    [Asia/Singapore]
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Ubuntu LXD Containers

ssdnodes VPS has enough cpu cores, memory and disk space for me to play with Ubuntu LXD containers, so switched to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver OS. You'll need to contact ssdnodes tech support to manually switch from CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 16.04 and then update to Ubuntu 18.04 dev release as update via standard do-release-upgrade command isn't available till July. Ssdnodes has no ETA on when Ubuntu 18.04 image will be offered right now.

ssdnode VPS with updated Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver LTS

Code (Text):

systemd-detect-virt
kvm

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

LXD/LXC version and the 2 created LXD container OSes one for CentOS 7.5 64bit and one for Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS

Code (Text):

lxc --version
3.0.0

lxc list       
+----------+---------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
|   NAME   |  STATE  |         IPV4         |                     IPV6                      |    TYPE    | SNAPSHOTS |
+----------+---------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| centos75 | RUNNING | 10.71.164.168 (eth0) | fd42:769c:ebd9:a0f7:216:3eff:fefd:23a2 (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0         |
+----------+---------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| ubuntu18 | RUNNING | 10.71.164.145 (eth0) | fd42:769c:ebd9:a0f7:216:3eff:fe42:4ca8 (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0         |
+----------+---------+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+

Ubuntu 18.04 64bit LXD container info which uses host node's Linux 4.15.0-22 generic Kernel

Code (Text):

lxc exec ubuntu18 cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

lxc exec ubuntu18 -- uname -a
Linux ubuntu18 4.15.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 16 12:15:17 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lxc exec ubuntu18 systemd-detect-virt
lxc

lxc exec ubuntu18 -- free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          16040          48       15797           8         194       15992
Swap:             0           0           0

lxc exec ubuntu18 -- df -hT
Filesystem                  Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ext4       79G  4.3G   70G   6% /
none                        tmpfs     492K     0  492K   0% /dev
udev                        devtmpfs  7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/tty
tmpfs                       tmpfs     100K     0  100K   0% /dev/lxd
tmpfs                       tmpfs     100K     0  100K   0% /dev/.lxd-mounts
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G  140K  7.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                       tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

CentOS 7.5 64bit LXD container info which uses host node's Linux 4.15.0-22 generic Kernel

Code (Text):

lxc exec centos75 cat /etc/redhat-release   
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)

lxc exec centos75 -- uname -a
Linux centos75 4.15.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 16 12:15:17 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lxc exec centos75 systemd-detect-virt
lxc

lxc exec centos75 -- free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          16040          12       16013           8          14       16027
Swap:             0           0           0

lxc exec centos75 -- df -hT
Filesystem                  Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ext4       79G  4.3G   70G   6% /
none                        tmpfs     492K     0  492K   0% /dev
udev                        devtmpfs  7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/tty
tmpfs                       tmpfs     100K     0  100K   0% /dev/lxd
tmpfs                       tmpfs     100K     0  100K   0% /dev/.lxd-mounts
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G  8.1M  7.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                       tmpfs     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

Will see about getting Centmin Mod to support installing into a LXD container based CentOS image

First test Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 install within a LXD CentOS 7.5 based guest container

Code (Text):

yum -y update; curl -O https://centminmod.com/betainstaller.sh && chmod 0700 betainstaller.sh && bash betainstaller.sh

Code (Text):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 164.2376 seconds
Total YUM Time: 12.035656178 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 48.6145
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 203.2347
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 208.0195
Download Zip From Github Time: 1.9152
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 274.1117
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 733.9805
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 900.1333 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
4 2099.998
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Code (Text):

*************************************************
* Post-Install Check List....
*************************************************

--------------------------------------------------------
Check ccache Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
ccache version 3.4.1

Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Andrew Tridgell
Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Joel Rosdahl

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

--------------------------------------------------------
Check Nginx Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
nginx version: nginx/1.13.12 (050618-001557)
built by gcc 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5) (GCC) 
built with OpenSSL 1.1.0h  27 Mar 2018
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-ld-opt='-ljemalloc -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' --with-cc-opt='-m64 -march=native -DTCP_FASTOPEN=23 -g -O3 -fstack-protector-strong -flto -fuse-ld=gold --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wimplicit-fallthrough=0 -fcode-hoisting -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -gsplit-dwarf' --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf --build=050618-001557 --with-compat --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-libatomic --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module --with-stream_geoip_module --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-threads --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --add-dynamic-module=../ngx-fancyindex-0.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_cache_purge-2.4.2 --add-module=../ngx_devel_kit-0.3.0 --add-dynamic-module=../set-misc-nginx-module-0.32 --add-dynamic-module=../echo-nginx-module-0.61 --add-module=../redis2-nginx-module-0.15 --add-module=../ngx_http_redis-0.3.7 --add-module=../memc-nginx-module-0.18 --add-module=../srcache-nginx-module-0.31 --add-dynamic-module=../headers-more-nginx-module-0.33 --with-pcre=../pcre-8.42 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=../zlib-cloudflare-1.3.0 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=../openssl-1.1.0h --with-openssl-opt='enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128'

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Check PHP-FPM Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
PHP 5.6.36 (cli) (built: Jun  5 2018 00:21:55) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

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Check MariaDB installed RPM Versions:
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MariaDB-server-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-common-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-shared-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-compat-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-client-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64
MariaDB-devel-10.1.33-1.el7.centos.x86_64

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Check Memcached Server Version:
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memcached 1.5.8

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Check CSF Firewall Version:
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csf: v12.04 (generic)

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Check Siege Benchmark Version:
--------------------------------------------------------
SIEGE 4.0.4

Copyright (C) 2017 by Jeffrey Fulmer, et al.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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Check mysqlreport version:
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mysqlreport v3.5-maria11 Jul 4 2013

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Check pure-ftpd Version:
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pure-ftpd v1.0.42

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Check YUM Repo List
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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: repo.us.bigstepcloud.com
 * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
 * extras: repos.forethought.net
 * rpmforge: mirror.lstn.net
 * updates: mirrordenver.fdcservers.net
279 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id                 repo name                                    status
base/7/x86_64           CentOS-7 - Base                              7,658+2,253
centos-sclo-rh/x86_64   CentOS-7 - SCLo rh                              7,371+96
centos-sclo-sclo/x86_64 CentOS-7 - SCLo sclo                                 521
epel/x86_64             Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_  11,611+974
extras/7/x86_64         CentOS-7 - Extras                                    305
mariadb                 MariaDB                                             44+2
rpmforge                RHEL 7 - RPMforge.net - dag                      136+109
updates/7/x86_64        CentOS-7 - Updates                               517+137
repolist: 28,163

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mytimes check:
/usr/bin/mytimes
--------------------------------------------------------
Tue Jun  5 00:25:25 UTC 2018    [UTC]
Tue Jun  5 10:25:25 AEST 2018   [Australia/Brisbane]
Mon Jun  4 17:25:25 PDT 2018    [America/Los_Angeles]
Mon Jun  4 19:25:25 CDT 2018    [America/Chicago]
Mon Jun  4 20:25:25 EDT 2018    [America/New_York]
Mon Jun  4 20:25:25 EDT 2018    [America/Montreal]
Tue Jun  5 01:25:25 BST 2018    [Europe/London]
Tue Jun  5 02:25:25 CEST 2018   [Europe/Berlin]
Tue Jun  5 07:25:25 +07 2018    [Asia/Bangkok]
Tue Jun  5 07:25:25 +07 2018    [Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh]
Tue Jun  5 07:25:25 WIB 2018    [Asia/Jakarta]
Tue Jun  5 08:25:25 +08 2018    [Asia/Kuala_Lumpur]
Tue Jun  5 08:25:25 +08 2018    [Asia/Singapore]
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Yeah the countdown's sometime reset to extend their discounted specials - guess it's there as an introductory offer.

For wordpress either once is good so pick one and be happy - though ssdnodes price is hard to beat. Upcloud has other benefits like block device storage you can add to extend your existing VPS storage space but comes at a cost too.

Only annoying things right now for me is ssdnodes, you can't switch OSes without support intervention but you can reinstall existing OSes - good for testing/development. Not really an issue if CentOS 7 is only OSes you want to use/try. For upcloud, you can't reinstall the same OS but instead have to delete the VPS and re-create a new VPS with new IP so can't retain same IP if you want to reload the OSes.

 

Yup - will have to do your own backups - though you should do that regardless of web host used.

 

indeed, Vultr has stepped up it seems Vultr - Vultr guarantee Intel Xeon Skylake on $10+ Plans

meanwhile, I'm loving my playtime on ssdnode 4CPU VPS for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS LXD containers for testing Centmin Mod LEMP installs or new features as I can create and destroy CentOS 7 LXD guest containers as often as I need to

here's a write up for how I am creating custom CentOS 7 LXD containers at centminmod/centminmod-lxd not really production ready as still working on iptables/UFW firewall setup needed to redirect Ubuntu 18.04 LTS LXD host traffic to the internal LXD guest container's internal IP as LXD containers aren't publicly accessible by default. But for Centmin Mod dev testing seems okay for some features within CentOS 7 LXD containers.

 

Using ssdnodes KVM for LXD container Nginx benchmarks for several web stacks Nginx - Nginx Static HTML Benchmarks - Centmin Mod vs Easyengine vs Webinoly

 

So far been excellent - performant and value for money and having that much memory has been great on 4CPU 16GB 80GB SSD plan. Just for me needs I am running up disk free space limits as I now have so many LXD container OS installs for my LEMP comparison benchmark testing Nginx - Nginx HTTP/2 HTTPS Benchmarks - Centmin Mod vs Easyengine vs Webinoly vs VestaCP vs OneInStack

But I am using ssdnodes in testing capacity only and not production site and well too early to tell. Really only way is to try first - hence why I nabbed my ssdnodes VPS when I did

 

Yeah that is missing but for the price, you could get a 2nd ssdnode VPS just for backups heh

 

ssdnodes addresses overselling concerns Let’s talk about VPS overselling | Serverwise

 

Yeah key to any form of system management is balancing the and managing the resource usage loads

However, folks forget how powerful the last 6 generations/years of Intel cpus are compared to older siblings and how much better SSD/NVMe disk I/O performance has improved along with PHP 7/MariaDB/MySQL improvements.

SSDnodes uses Intel Xeon E5 latest and/or Intel Xeon Scalable cpus which are latest so typically can handle more than what some other VPS providers use i.e. some still are on Intel Xeon 55xx (Nehalem-EP) or Xeon 56xx (Westmere-EP) based processors from 2009/2010 for their VPS host nodes ! FYI, a 1st generation Intel Xeon E3-1270v1 (Sandy Bridge) made in 2011 with only 4 core/8 threads could match those older Intel Xeon 55xx/56xx in most work loads !

For static Centmin Mod Nginx file serving, I pushed Vultr bare metal Intel Xeon E3-1270v5/v6 Skylake/Kabylake with only 4 core + 4 virtual threads = 8 cpu threads to around 10,000 concurrent connections and to a ceiling of 80,0000 to 350,000 concurrent nginx connections in both single and load balanced configs with 2nd/3rd servers added - comfortably would be around 5,000 to 8,000 concurrent connections. So that is just with 8 to 16/24 cpu threads. Imagine what SSDnode's Intel Xeon Scalable Gold cpus do in dual config with 16-22x2 = 32-44 cpu threads can do !