Digital Ocean Hosting

[Advocatus]

I would like to move to Digital Ocean to host my website after my hosting provider has become unreliable. Would the $10 per month option be capable of hosting a PrestaShop store that has about 100 products https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet

 

Also, would it be possible to host another PrestaShop store on the same droplet with about 100 products?

 

I would appreciate anyone’s help, especially if you have experience with Digital Ocean or with cloud hosting.

[Advocatus]

Bump

 

Can someone please give me any help / advice?

[mpatzekov]

I am pretty sure that you will be able to do this. I am using DO with several Wordpress installations, exactly the 10$ VPS package and don't have any issues at all. You just need to configure your system properly - web servers, php interpretators, mind the mail servers, etc.. and it will be able to handle all requests and traffic. 100 products are not that much, so you can be sure that placing 2 or 3 installations on the same droplet will be ok. 

 

Of course, in my opinion, it's best to host 1 installation with 1 domain on a single droplet. This way each of your installations will be hosted on a different IP, for example.

Edited August 24, 2017 by mpatzekov (see edit history)

[Advocatus]

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions! I’m new to cloud hosting, but I have been reading the documentation. From my understand I will need to install Ubuntu, then LAMP, including phpMyadmin if I want to use graphical interfere to manage the databases.

 

Is this correct?

Edited August 29, 2017 by Advocatus (see edit history)

[mpatzekov]

Hi again,

 

Well, yes. If you are familiar with the Apache server, then go for the LAMP. I prefer working with NGINX, so I always have the LEMP stack. You are right, this is the way of doing the things. First, the operating system, them the web sever, mysql and php interpreter. As for the graphic interface, I don't use it so I can't tell you for sure how do to it.

 

1. The OS - usually, the DO droplets come with installed OS. I suggest that you go for the Ubuntu 16.04 x64; You can also choose the 14.04 x64, it works great.

2. Install nginx from the DO repositiories;

3. Install mysql from the DO repositories;

4. Install php processor. Personally, I use php5-fpm, but you can use the most modern php-fpm which uses PHP7;

 

After you create your droplet, I suggest that you read this:  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-in-ubuntu-16-04 

Digital Ocean are great with their community. They have tutorials for almost anything you can imagine doing with your VPS. They cover a lot of open-source software topics and provide how-tos. That's why people love then and they have so many customers. 

 

If you need something special for the configuration for your virtual server, just search the community.

 

Best,

Martin