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VPS Hardware & Database Sizer

Calculate recommended CPU cores, RAM, MySQL buffer pools, and monthly cloud hosting budgets for marketplace scripts and web platforms.

5,000 DAU
500 (Early Launch)25,000 (Growth)50,000+ (Scale)
50 req/sec
10 req/s250 req/s500 req/s
50 GB SSD

Recommended Server Specifications

Dedicated CPU

3 vCPU Cores

System RAM

4 GB DDR4/5

MySQL InnoDB Buffer

2.2 GB

Redis Object Cache

512 MB

Estimated Monthly Hosting Costs
Hetzner Cloud~€14/mo
DigitalOcean~$52/mo
AWS EC2~$98/mo
Book Turnkey Setup for £150 (24–48h SLA)

Production Nginx Configuration Snippet

# Recommended Nginx & PHP-FPM Virtual Host Config
# Sized for 5,000 DAU (50 peak req/sec)
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;
    root /var/www/html/public;
    index index.php index.html;

    client_max_body_size 64M;
    keepalive_timeout 65;

    # Gzip Compression
    gzip on;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml;

    # PHP-FPM Performance Buffer
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
        fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
        fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }
}