[Koha] Advice for hardware/technical requirements for cloud implementation

[Chris Brown]

Hi Tasha,

Well for what it's worth ... we host Koha "in the cloud" on a Droplet from
Digital Ocean with 4 VCPUs, 8Gb of memory and a 20Gb disk.This system is
supporting 5 libraries (i.e. 5 separate databases) though I suspect the
total number of records is much less than you have (probably more like
50,000). This machine is costing us 40USD per month. Until recently we were
running with only 4Gb of memory (at half the price) but after
enabling plack on all the instances the memory load went up and we decided
to upgrade to 8Gb. The machine also supports a web server, though the load
from that is tiny.

Hope this helps,

Best Regards,

Chris Brown


On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:27 PM Bales (US), Tasha R <
tasha.r.bales at boeing.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I'd like to ask for suggestions about hardware recommendations for
> installing Koha.  We have about 1.5 million bibliographic records.  Perhaps
> the reason we're not seeing a lot of info is just that Koha/MySQL/Zebra is
> relatively lightweight?  I've done some Googling and quite a bit of
> inspection of the Wiki and documentation, but haven't found anything
> specific.  I'm an applications admin and don't deal with installing and
> provisioning servers, so pardon my ignorance.  I'm anticipating questions
> from IT-we anticipate hosting in our own cloud, on Ubuntu-and want to be
> prepared.  We don't plan on uploading files to any bib records, if that's
> relevant.
>
> Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom,
>
>
> Tasha R. Bales
>
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