Production site Question?

Hi, I'm considering modxCloud.com instead of using our own Vmware platform. Simply because i just want modX to work with out having to tweak linux stuff...

Anyway this is a pre sales question...
We make apps... so we have a domain for each. As I understand it each domain is a production site.
But we support multiple languages., en, sp ,fe, de
So using babel we have to setup separate contexts, but its still the same domain just myproductdomain.com/en or myproductdomain.com/sp
and so on.
So if we have 4 product we sites, we may have 16 contexts based on the way babel works... would this be 4 productions sites or would this be 16 production sites.

Also whats the performance on the modXCloud like... we are not all being crammed on a server like godaddy are we? my seo people told me that we dont want the $3 a month hosting as SEO crawlers will get slow performance and mess with our SEO rankings...

It would be one production site.

MODx Cloud is shared hosting. I cannot speak for how many accounts per server, and of course like any shared hosting your performance will vary. With your site, I'd really not recommend any shared hosting.

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 24, 2013, 03:29 PM

It would be one production site.

MODx Cloud is shared hosting. I cannot speak for how many accounts per server, and of course like any shared hosting your performance will vary. With your site, I'd really not recommend any shared hosting.

ER, well maybe I can hire a ModX admin for a hour or two to check my server settings every 6 months.. any modX admins out there that are highly qualified to do this?

It's not difficult, I've done it for several different servers, from Linux to Solaris clones, Apache or nginx. Google is your friend, and yum is so much better than the old download-config-compile I used to go through!

You're best bet is Apache or nginx with PHP as FPM/FastCGI. You'll need PHP to be configured with pdo/mysql, zip, gd, and a few other goodies. ImageMagic is also a good idea.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Server+Requirements

Quote from: j3software at Apr 24, 2013, 03:02 PM

Also whats the performance on the modXCloud like...

In my experience it's quite fast, faster than most of the VPSs I've worked on in fact, even though it is shared hosting. I think it's a combination of using a PHP accelerator (APC), nginx, and some other server tweaks.

Anyway, it's worth signing up for a free lab account and trying things out.

Quote from: j3software at Apr 24, 2013, 03:37 PM

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 24, 2013, 03:29 PM

It would be one production site.

MODx Cloud is shared hosting. I cannot speak for how many accounts per server, and of course like any shared hosting your performance will vary. With your site, I'd really not recommend any shared hosting.

ER, well maybe I can hire a ModX admin for a hour or two to check my server settings every 6 months.. any modX admins out there that are highly qualified to do this?

Check with @amdbuilder he keeps @skytoaster servers kicking butt, also make sure to signup for the lab account so you can test it and make an informed decision.

Good Luck.

Using this very non-scientific benchmark script which hits the database and parses a chunk over and over, my SkyToaster VPS scored about twice as good as Cloud. Others using the same test script on their own shared servers seemed to get better performance from Cloud - I'm guessing mostly cause of nginx. My VPS scoring higher is kind of expected when testing a VPS and a shared hosting instance against each other.

All that said - you should be fine with most linux configurations tbh. If you don't want to tinker with the settings yourself, find a managed hosting provider that does it for you (and based on your requirements, I'd rule out shared hosting providers too).