Power needed for 5 - 10 Websites?

[alexharvey52]

Hello,

Sorry if you get these questions a lot. I have been a VPS customer with NFO for almost 2 years now and so far so good! I now want to buy another server dedicated to hosting websites, I will start off with hosting about 5 websites then maybe up to about 10, all will get a reasonable amount of daily traffic. What VPS is the best for me to rent? I was think the dual core vps with windows 2012 r2 would be enough.

Thanks,
Alex

[soja]

Depends entirely on the type of websites you intend to host. If you are running entirely dynamic sites(all php/other, heavy database calls) you will need a lot more power vs delivering flat HTML files.

I would recommend more than 2GB ram for web hosting, and a Linux OS. I would do a minimum of 4GB for php based websites. My single gaming community site is using 4GB ram right now due to mysql/php/apache. A 4-core VDS would do ok to start out with.