Hardware for solo-user

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Good day all

I have been using ERPNext that was hosted on someone elses platform and I now find myself
in a position to deploy ERPNext myself !!!

I have chosen Digital Ocean. Their pricing seems fair.

I have googled for some info around this matter and I am still not sure as to my next step.
many of the hardware requirement suggestions is for rather big system. Mine is small.

  1. Since I have never done a remote install such as this, I obviously would like to choose a small
    :droplet" to begin with. I can always upscale later. Would a 2G 1vCPU be good enough ? Single user. Production setup with 150 items.

many thanks

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2GB is a bit low for v11+ (4G recommended).
Why don’t you just use a VM and then you’ll have local access speed too?

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Standard / 2 GB / 2 vCPUs is totally fine for a few users. But some things during installation and upgrade take a lot of RAM, so I recommend to increase the swap space to about 4 GB.

Also consider https://frappecloud.com/ which will probably serve your case better.

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Thank you trentmu for taking the time and sharing your viewpoint.
I did indeed consider using a local machine and it still is on the cards. The
reason for considering a remote installation is that , with me going thought a
process of using another companies resources and being told that they can no longer
support a solo-user, I was wondering if there are other “small” users that may be in a
similar position. They want to use ERPNext but are sent away by the “bigger” companies
because they are to small. And if I can get this going , then some other people can make
use of it as well.

Best !

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Thank you rmeyer for your input. I appreciate you taking the time.

I shall read the doc on the link you supplied and make provision so that the install
has enough memory.

Best !!

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Contabo has higher configuration at lower price. Choose the Xeon processor VPS. They also have i7 which is a bit sluggish but works OK.