What type of VPS should I get?

Posted on March 2, 2015

Hello,

I am building a ecommerce site on wordpress that has around 40 plugins. Realising that that amount of plugins will require a much powerfull machine to handle the requests, I would like to know what is the best option available …something that can provide data for around 1000 visitors a month.

Either backp up a vps with a cdn or something else, you guys are the experts so please share your knowledge.

Thanks for reading Henrique

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Brohemian

March 3, 2015

40 WP plugins? You are going to need whiskey or Valium. ;)

Brohemian

March 3, 2015

Digital Ocean is a great place for learning. You might want to question your architectural decisions. First: PHP. It’s an ok language and I know it and use it. But, PHP is like a cancer that has grown ever since Rasmus Lerdorf released a few C routines to run on his personal home page. The language is much more evolved than designed. There is a classical rant, which is worth your read http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Facebook, was started with PHP, but by the time they got money they realized they were screwed so they just completely rewrote the language for in-house use.

Next, WordPress. This started as a nice little project for a blog. I really don’t think a bog needs a database, but if you are gong to have multiple users and comments, well, ok. The people at WordPress never knew when to STOP. It’s a classic example of a software project that keeps going because the programmers need it to keep going. Then it moved from blog to CMS. I haven’t read the latest WordPress manifesto, but I’m sure it’s crazy nonsense. So, WordPress allows plugins and themes from third parties. So we have 80K lines of crack head PHP and on top we have an entire cottage industry of junior programmers trying to solve all the problems in the world.

In the long run you will end up doing way more work that just starting something from scratch with a language like Python or just buying a lean ecommerce script.

And don’t get me started on security.